An underground operation was evacuated due to a violent electrical disturbance in the atmosphere on March 10. A dangerous storm forced Anglo American to temporarily remove everyone from its Grosvenor...
Category - Mine Closure
Anti-resources protestors failed to use the judicial system to indefinitely postpone an $896 million coal project in Queensland’s Darling Downs region. The Oakey Coal Action Alliance (OCAA)...
A mining services company temporarily shut down at least one operation in Queensland’s Central Highlands region. A subsidiary of NRW Holdings recently stopped work due to floods and severe weather...
An Asia-backed coal operation faced short-term delays due to the deadly disease. One employee, who initially tested positive to COVID-19, temporarily closed Idemitsu Australia’s Boggabri Coal...
The Cooperative Research Centre for Transformations in Mining Economies (CRC TiME) is pleased to announce its initial 22 projects addressing key challenges around optimising ecological, economic...
Improving environmental management during mine rehabilitation and closure was the focus of a week-long field course for environmental science students from The University of Western Australia and...
WA Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Johnston has announced a new guidance for the rehabilitation of Western Australian mine sites. The guidance is titled ‘A framework for developing mine-site...
The challenges of mine closure are significant, varied and seldom quantified. Researchers at the University of Queensland and a number of leading mining companies have formed a three-year consortium...
The pile of problems faced by Vista Gold in their proposal to rehabilitate and get the abandoned Mount Todd gold mine site back into operation isn’t a small one. The site, near Katherine in the...
