A government regulator has issued a warning around ensuring equipment used in hazardous areas meets conformity under ANZEx or IECEx Scheme. The warning surrounds the requirement for hazardous area equipment certified outside Australia to be supplied...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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 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 ™...
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...
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...