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china mine safety scrutiny is increasing

China increases scrutiny on mine safety

Authorities in northern China’s Shanxi Province have suspended or held back the construction of 82 coal mines in the first five months of 2019 amid enhanced safety scrutiny. The closed mines...

Rescue scene as mines rescue search for missing miner

Chilean mines rescuers find body of missing miner

Chilean mines rescue workers have located the body of a missing miner. In a statement issued by the Mining Ministry of Chile, Mining minister Baldo Prokurica reported that this morning the lifeless...

threatening text messages have seen a workers claim denied by Fair Work Australia

Dismissal upheld over threatening text messages

A recent Fair Work Commission decision to uphold the dismissal of an employee for sending threatening text messages and making statements of a sexually harassing nature has shone a light on issues...

managers may be setting the wrong priorities

Managers may be setting the wrong priorities

To what extent are risks taken into account in a business strategy? In 2018, consulting firm DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) interviewed senior managers from various high-risk industries such...

renewables microgrid gold mine

Renewables microgrid to power gold mine

A Western Australian gold mine will be the first Australian mine to be powered by a renewables microgrid comprising of wind, solar, battery and gas is now under construction. On behalf of the...

cyanide free gold

Cyanide free gold

An Australian organisation has developed a method for cyanide free gold. The new process offers a greener and safer method of gold recovery. It dispenses with toxic cyanide and mercury currently used...

Investor safety outcomes - big investors are looking for better safety outcomes for mining companies. Non disclosure may result in investment withdrawn

Big investors looking for better safety outcomes

Some of the world’s leading investment groups are looking for better safety outcomes in mining following the Vale Brumadinho mining disaster. Investors with a combined $12.5 trillion in assets...

Volvo NVIDIA Partnership announced for co-operation in AI

Volvo partners with NVIDIA for in vehicle AI

At its headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, Volvo Group this week announced that it is using the NVIDIA DRIVE end-to-end autonomous driving platform to train, test and deploy self-driving AI vehicles...

Kespry drones survey reveals mining companies are saving money through drones

Kespry survey reveals mines saving money through drones

Kespry, the drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, has announced the results of what it says is the industry’s first mining and aggregates customer survey. Kespry surveyed its 220 mining...

Rio AutoHaul train has been officially launched

Rio Tinto officially launches AutoHaul

Rio Tinto was joined on Friday by representatives from the government of Western Australia and lead project technology partner Hitachi Rail STS to celebrate the successful deployment of AutoHaul ™...

a survivor from the chilean copper mine is treated for injuries

Mines rescue still searching in Chilean mine accident

Mines rescue teams are still searching for a miner missing in a Chilean mine accident in a copper mine. The Chilean mine accident in a copper mine claimed the life of one miner after a fall of ground...

01 - slip into something less comfortable

Slip into something less comfortable

Mining ergonomics expert, Robin Burgess-Limerick, discusses how to prevent slips, trips and falls during mining equipment access and egress. Access to, and egress from, mining equipment is an...