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EPIROC’s new LHD automation

Epiroc’s has released a new offering for LHD automation that, it says, brings new standards of productivity and safety to underground mining. Scooptram Automation Total allows for multi machine...

Austin engineering water tank to improve confined space entry

Austin Engineering commissions new water tanks

An Australian manufacturer has developed a locally made water tank which aims to improve safety during confined space entries. Austin Engineering has commissioned the first of its locally...

An inquest into a Mount Lyell mining accident will begin again after the court ruled against copper mines of tasmania

Inquest into Mount Lyell death to resume

An inquest into the death of a mine worker at the Mount Lyell mine in Tasmania will resume almost six years after the tragic mining accident. 53-year-old Michael Welsh died when his loader was caught...

A union leader for a Colombian mining company ( Drummond Coal ) has been attacked by gunmen

Union leader attacked by gunmen in Colombia

A union leader has survived an attack by two gunmen in Colombia. Vice President of the Miner’s Union, Ricardo Rojas, who works for Drummond Coal in Colombia, was attacked by two masked gunmen...

Haul road lighting contributes to mine safety

Effective haul road lighting increases safety

Proper design of haul road lighting systems is essential to the efficient and safe operation of an open cut mine writes Nitai Pal, S.Vamsi Krishna and Pradip Kumar Sadhu. At a surface mine covering...

Hydration in mineworkers is important to preventing heat stress

Heat stress gets watered down | hydration in miners

In a sunburnt country like Australia, the consequences of heat stress on a mine site can be catastrophic. Veronica Miller and Dr Graham Bates from Curtin University conducted a study that found the...

Two mining contractors have died while performing high voltage work on a haul truck at Argonaut Gold

Mining contractors killed in HV accident on haul truck

Two mining contractors have died in a High Voltage accident while performing maintenance on a haul truck. The details surrounding the accident are still emerging. The contractors were killed at...

Pindan has secured a major deal for Koodaideri

Pindan secured Koodaideri deal

Integrated property and construction group Pindan has been awarded a new contract, valued at about A$90 million, to progress construction of an operations village for Rio Tinto’s Koodaideri iron ore...

Mobilaris Onboard Technology

Mobilaris Situational Awareness Technology

One of the features of the new Mobilaris Onboard™ real-time situational awareness technology can, according to Hans Wahlquist, VP Business Development & Strategic Product...