The evacuation of Anglo American’s Grasstree underground coal mine yesterday has highlighted potential disconnects between mine response plans (TARPS) and their implementation at some underground mines. Underground coal miner workers were...
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On Friday 19 November 2010, a methane explosion caused a tragedy at New Zealand’s Pike River Coal Mine resulting in the deaths of 29 workers. Dr Carlos Sorentino examines what role poor corporate...
A US-based teenager has developed a unique blind spot reduction system that may have application in reducing pillar blind spots and improving operator field of view in mining vehicles. 14-year-old...
A joint project between Orica and Epiroc will aim to deliver a semi-automated drill and blast system for underground mines by 2021. Orica and Epiroc say that the new drill and blast system will focus...
Optimising drill and blast performance with high tech tools just took another step forward. Orica (ASX: ORI), the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial explosives and innovative blasting...
A worker has died from fatal injuries sustained from a falling trailer ramp on a low loader trailer at a construction depot in Te Kuiti New Zealand. The 43-year-old father of two was reportedly...
A haul truck has burned on a ramp from at a NSW mine. The NSW Resources Regulator reported that about 2 am while driving an empty haul truck down a ramp, a driver had to shut down the truck due to a...
UPDATED: A FIFO worker accused of murdering his colleague at a Western Australian mine has been remanded in custody to appear in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on November 27. Troy Adam Hausler...
Recent research in the use of virtual reality to improve health and safety training suggests that multi-sensory virtual reality experiences can motivate and engage employees more effectively than...
Hazard management in mining is fundamental to the safe operation of a mine. Despite a higher than average percentage of workers in the mining sector undertaking formal occupational health and safety...
In the wake of the BHP Goonyella Riverside automation row with unions and members of the Queensland Opposition, BHP has resurrected parts of a July 2017 video shot at Jimblebar mine in early 2017...
The Queensland Government have established a mining rehabilitation advisory committee to advise the government on the used of funds used to clean up abandoned mine sites. Ten of Queensland’s leading...
The CFMEU Mining and Energy Queensland President Stephen Smyth says that 340 jobs will go at the BMA Goonyella Riverside mine as the automation of mining trucks rolls out. Alarmingly, he has also...