As the role of automation in the mining industry grows, researchers from The University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) have secured funding from the mining industry to undertake...
Category - EMERGING ISSUES IN MINING SAFETY
Covers emerging issues in mining health and safety
Safety culture is often considered too difficult to quantify. Researchers have proposed a new methodology in benchmarking safety culture in organisations. By KATARZYNA WARSZAWSKA & ANDRZEJ...
Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) has celebrated an important milestone with the completion of the Company’s Chichester Hub autonomous haulage system project. The project, which represents one of...
A mining company has finished expanding its autonomous heavy vehicle fleet at its iron ore operations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Fortescue Metals Group recently completed its Chichester...
A mining company has been fined over a blast in the Hunter Valley that was allegedly poorly controlled. PUBLISHED / AMSJ AUTUMN 2020 The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined Warkworth...
An exploratory longitudinal study By MARK RUBIN, ANNA GIACOMINI, REBECCA ALLEN, RICHARD TURNER & BRIAN KELLY PUBLISHED / AMSJ AUTUMN 2020 The present study undertook an exploratory investigation...
Augmented and virtual reality is set to change the future of mine safety through immersive learning according to industry experts. The next generation of mining maintenance personnel are beginning to...
Amira Global has welcomed a $20 million investment by the West Australian government into the development of a robotics and automation test facility and precinct at Neerabup, north of Perth. The...
The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Enterprise Transformation Partners (ETP) are pleased to announce they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Yokogawa and ExxonMobil...
Digitalisation: From Pit to Port In the mining industry, digitalization allows workers located thousands of kilometers – potentially continents – away to remotely control the movement of raw material...
A New Brunswick mining contractor died 27th May 2020 at Impala’s Lac des Iles Mine (LDI), northwest of Thunder Bay. The Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP)Thunder Bay detachment reports...
Dr Ray Parkin OAM takes a look at the unprecedented level of Queensland mine fatalities and highlights the need for radical change in the industry. The catalyst for this article is the 8 fatalities...
