Sleeping giants awaken: How Ernest Henry set a global benchmark for firing overslept rings in SLC mining

Matt Bouwmeester presenting his award-winning paper on overslept sublevel cave production rings at the 2025 AusIMM Underground Operators Conference in Adelaide.
Jamie Wade
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Content By Jamie Wade on June 7, 2025
Safety, Safety Training, Incident Reporting, Emergency Response, Efficiency, Production Optimisation, Process Improvement, Equipment Maintenance, Innovation, Research and Development, Technology Adoption, Process Innovation, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation, Crisis Management
Australia, Queensland, North West Minerals Province
Gold, Base Metals, Copper

When a major weather event halted production at Evolution Mining’s Ernest Henry Operations (EHO) in March 2023, it set the st...

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