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Two coal mine workers were using a QDS Bolter to drill application holes for a cavity fill product when a deadly roof fall happened at Crinum mine last week, an early report from the safety regulator says. Resources Health and Safety Queensland has released a safety alert stemming from the fatal incident that occurred about 11pm on September 14. The body of Mastermyne employee Graham Dawson...
A geotechnical drilling program is underway to advance the $60 million Big Rocks Weir project 26km north of Charters Towers. Proponent Charters Towers Regional Council hopes to have pre-construction activities complete by October this year. Charters Towers Mayor Frank Beveridge said the start of the drilling was exciting news for the region. “This past week we’ve had geotechnical ...
Students from throughout Queensland are in Mount Isa this week for the Oresome Minds Camp run by the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy (QMEA), the education arm of the Queensland Resources Council (QRC). The students were meant to travel to the mining city earlier in the year, but a COVID-19 lockdown put paid to those plans. The students have been working on projects with their Mount I...
New Hope Group has delivered a pre-tax profit of $111 million despite the New Acland mine’s uncertain future continuing to drag down the thermal coal-focused business. Chief executive officer Reinhold Schmidt said a number of factors contributed to the result for the year to July 31, 2021, which followed a $226 million loss in the previous financial year. “The Newcastle 6000 Index hit...
Western Australian gold producer Gold Fields will work with Sandvik to trial new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as part of a major production study to run over the next two years. Under a deal between the two companies, Gold Fields’ St Ives operation in WA’s Eastern Goldfields will become the first mine in Australia to receive the new Sandvik LH518B 18-tonne BEV underground loader. The o...
A shortage of skilled workers is the No.1 threat to the future viability of Queensland’s resources sector, according to a survey of mining bosses. The latest State of the Sector report shows a combination of COVID-related border restrictions, less skilled migration and interstate competition for workers has created a perfect storm of labour shortages at a time of continued growth across the se...
The MaCauley Creek project in North Queensland is serving up high-grade results of up to 7.04 per cent copper and 2250g/t silver for Inca Minerals. The company reported ‘outstanding’ high-grade copper and silver assay results from a 110-sample rock chip program completed recently at the project. MaCauley Creek is just south of the Mount Moss mine site, about 75km west of Townsvi...
M Mining produced its first metallurgical coal from the Mavis Downs pit in Central Queensland over the weekend as prices for the commodity soared to new heights. Matt Latimore, M Mining A joint venture of M Resources and Stanmore Resources (MetRes) acquired the mothballed Mavis Downs and Millennium site from Peabody Energy in July, with M Mining acting as joint venture manager and operato...
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