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BHP partnership for greener steel production

BHP partnership for greener steel production

December 11, 2023

Mining exploration spending: another record quarter

December 11, 2023

Critical Minerals enters term sheet agreement

December 8, 2023

BHP partnership for greener steel production

Mining exploration spending: another record quarter

Critical Minerals enters term sheet agreement

BHP makes updates to executive leadership team

Major exploration work approved at Julimar Project

Soil sampling defines lithium anomalies at Mt Sholl

Agreement signed for Northparkes 80% acquisition

Pre-feasibility study for Pilbara iron ore project

QLD Resources Minister to lead US trade mission

Port access secured for Kathleen Valley export

When people think of the dangers of mine sites, they often conjure up images of heavy equipment, large haul trucks and explosive blasts. Less thought of are the subtler, long-term hazards that can affect the health and wellbeing of miners, including those that do not reveal their consequences until years later.

Risk management

Safety and Training

Health and safety

Health and safety

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Six reasons miners should care about silicosis

When people think of the dangers of mine sites, they often conjure up images of heavy equipment, large haul trucks and explosive blasts. Less thought of are the subtler, long-term hazards that can affect the health and wellbeing of miners, including those that do not reveal their consequences until years later.

Mount Carbine mine, Queensland, in 2015. Photograph by Yanbo Cheng, Geoscience Australia.

Critical minerals

Critical Minerals

Critical Minerals

Mount Carbine mine, Queensland, in 2015. Photograph by Yanbo Cheng, Geoscience Australia.

The tungsten revival

Australia’s Critical Minerals List contains more than 25 minerals, all of which have been flagged by the Federal Government as essential to modern technologies, economies and national security. As Australia ramps up mineral exploration in its race to net zero, there has been one critical mineral whose name has been bounced around more than usual.

Asset Management

Disaster Management

Mine rehabilitation

Risk management

Water and waste management

Tailings Management

Tailings Management

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Tailings management training for professionals in the field

Although there have been a number of high-profile failures of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) in recent years, including one in Australia in 2018, the failure of the Feijão (sometimes referred to as Brumadinho) TSF in Brazil in January 2019 has changed the industry irreversibly.

Old abandoned mine

Asset Management

Environmental management

Mine rehabilitation

Water and waste management

Mine Rehabilitation

Mine Rehabilitation

Old abandoned mine

A unified approach to mine rehabilitation and remediation

Mining is one of Australia’s leading industries, contributing eight per cent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), and employing more than 200,000 people. With mining playing such a significant role on the national landscape – socially, physically and economically – there comes huge responsibility.

Panning for gold

Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement

Panning for gold

Engaging with artisanal miners: an opportunity for value

Artisanal scale mining (ASM) often shares land concessions with large-scale mining projects. As extensions of neighbouring communities, these miners are a unique stakeholder group that are integral for the community relationship focus of larger mining companies.

The use of drones in the mining industry has been taking off over the last few years, with an array of drone-based technologies being utilised to streamline mining operations, as well as for asset management and monitoring. Drone-based magnetometry is one of the technologies gaining traction in the mineral exploration sphere overseas and is under rapid development in Australia.

Condition Assessment

Critical minerals

Instrumentation, Control & Monitoring

Mining Innovations

Mining Innovations

A drone with SPH onboard magnetometer. Image credit_ SPH Engineering

The role of drone-based magnetometry in advancing mineral exploration

The use of drones in the mining industry has been taking off over the last few years, with an array of drone-based technologies being utilised to streamline mining operations, as well as for asset management and monitoring. Drone-based magnetometry is one of the technologies gaining traction in the mineral exploration sphere overseas and is under rapid development in Australia.

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