Multinational resources companies were urged to settle multi-billion debts in relation to a catastrophic failure. BHP, Vale and their Samarco joint venture should pay compensation for the 2015...
Category - Spills
A mining operation reported a structural failure that battered machinery and hurt one employee. A raw water tank recently failed at a Queensland coal mine, releasing large volumes of water across the...
The BHP and Vale joint venture operation that resulted in one of the world’s worst environmental disasters in 2015 will recommence operation after receiving approvals for an environmental...
Queensland Police yesterday locked down parts of Mount Isa, Queensland following a mine site incident involving hazardous substances. Police made an emergency declaration under the Public Safety...
During a coal seam gas drilling operation in the Surat Basin, the well began to flow when the 9-5/8” casing was being run to approximately 400 m into the Hutton sandstone formation. The 13-3/8”...
BHP Billiton has said it was unlikely the Samarco iron ore mine would reopen, after the tragic events in November 2015 when two dam bursts. “Samarco makes an important contribution to the...
Two tanks containing CSG waste water have been tipped over in flooding waters, raising concerns about possible contamination of the Nepean River southwest of Sydney. A number of AGL’s coal seam...
Curtin University and Northern Territory-based researchers have found elevated electrical conductivity in creek water to be a reliable predictor of toxic seepage from a nearby mine’s tailings pond...
An inquiry was launched earlier this week into safety and fairness issues concerning road transport drivers in the waste management industry. The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) will conduct...
After discovering potentially toxic chemicals in flowback water, gas company AGL has halted operations at the Gloucester coal seam gas project north of Newcastle. The company voluntarily shut the...
Inhabitants of the Solomon Islands living near St Barbara’s Gold Ridge mine, about 40km from the nation’s capital Honiara, have been warned by the mining company’s CEO that a...
A section of the Koolan Island iron ore mine off the Kimberley coast of WA is now flooded to sea level after it’s sea wall collapsed on Tuesday. No one was injured by the breach and all non...
