A resources employee became fatally injured while repairing subterranean equipment. Authorities recently investigated how a roof bolting machine killed an underground mine worker at an undisclosed...
Tag - Drilling safety
An exploration and water boring company will pay after a team member died from a serious injury more than two years ago. Orbit Drilling recently pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a...
Sandvik has combined the best features of its three previous air bearing bit designs to launch Sandvik RR240, with added improvements that extend bit life and improve productivity in rotary drilling...
A dangerous incident at an open cut coal mine has been reported to the NSW Resources Regulator. A drill rig trammed to a demarcated shot hole to re-drill it. The drill operator accessed the...
Epiroc, leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has won a significant order from Rio Tinto for mining equipment to be used in the company’s iron...
Devico AS, Norwegian leader in directional core drilling innovations and manufacturer of leading drill hole positioning instruments, is officially releasing their latest innovation, DeviCloud, on the...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has launched the new Sandvik DT923i jumbo, its latest development drill rig for high power face drilling in tunnel and cavern excavations. Together with the new RD5...
Thiess says its mine planning team is pioneering the development and use of an advanced void management system that is informing probing, drill pattern and blasting design. The holistic system gives...
According to mine operator Teck Alaska Inc., a 47-year-old worker died Saturday (16th Jan) at the Red Dog copper and zinc mine, which located about 80 miles north of Kotzebue, northwest Alaska. No...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions introduces the new Sandvik DD212, a compact and intelligent single-boom electro-hydraulic drill for tunneling and mining development in narrow vein drifts. This new...
