Between 2010-2013 statistics showed that safety within the mining industry was improving, with the recorded number of fatalities remaining low when compared to the years prior. However, a spike of...
Tag - MINING
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit. These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner.
Ores recovered by include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining is required to obtain any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory. Mining in a wider sense includes extraction of any non-renewable resource such as petroleum, natural gas, or even water.
AMSJ provides information on a wide range of practices, news, articles and case studies associated with mining.
Bulga Mine has taken out the 2014 NSW Mines Rescue Open Cut competition held at the Hunter Valley Mines Rescue Station last Friday. Seven teams from the Hunter region competed on the day. NSW Fire...
A Queensland invention, which enables on-site production of cyanide used in mining, has been announced the overall winner at this year’s Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Global Awards 2014...
Safety inspectors were laughed at by Roy Hill mine project workers after raising safety concerns during an audit, according to documents from the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP). The audit...
The vast majority of Queensland miners are not currently being tested for synthetic drugs, according to a survey conducted by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines. The report, which shows...
For the first time in its 20 year history, the annual Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response Competition will be held in Tasmania’s south at Nyrstar, Hobart. Tasmanian mine and smelter site emergency...
The ability of mining companies to respond in emergencies will be put to the test in the coming months as the Goldfields and Perth play host to mine emergency response competitions. Resources Safety...
An Indonesian workers union has announced it will begin a one-month strike at the Grasberg mine over safety issues that led to a string of deaths last month. Five miners died at the Papua copper and...
Turkey is in the news again for all the wrong reasons – eighteen miners are trapped 300 metres below the surface at the Has Sekerler coal mine, near Ermenek, after a burst pipe flooded the mine...
Mining Contractor, Crushing Services International Pty Ltd (CSI) has been fined $115,000 plus court costs in relation to the death of contracted electrician Kurt Williams on 14 August last year. The...
