Goldfields-Esperance
An underground mining contractor has been fined $540,000 after a rock fall at the Hamlet Underground Gold Mine near Kambalda killed a driller and injured a probationary offsider.
Approvals in mining have long been described as a maze of red tape and delays, but at AMEC’s Nature Positive and Environmental Regulation Forum in Perth, regulators signalled that change is finally starting to cut through.
In open-pit mining, getting the right information at the right time can mean the difference between precise grade control and costly dilution - and one technology is giving operators a sharper, faster view of what lies beneath each bench.
After a shaky start to 2025, the Australian exploration sector appears to be tentatively turning a corner.
When reliable environmental performance data doesn’t exist, simulation can step in – and according to IGO Nova’s Zachary Hearne, it could give Australian producers a market advantage.
In the wake of evolving regulatory expectations and maturing risk management frameworks, mining companies are being urged to reassess how they apply critical controls to tailings storage facilities (TSFs).
As mineral exploration enters an era defined by data complexity and digital transformation, one of the biggest hurdles geoscientists face is not a lack of information, but too much of it.
Western Australia’s listed companies have defied commodity headwinds to post a three point seven percent rise in collective market capitalisation, closing the 2025 financial year at A$362+ billion, according to the Deloitte WA Index Diggers & Dealers Special Edition.
At the 2025 AusIMM Underground Operators Conference in Adelaide, Dyno Nobel Senior Technical Consultant Ed Wargem delivered a message that cut through the noise of technical jargon and digital disruption: sometimes, the biggest improvements in underground development blasting come not from cutting-edge technology, but from going back to basics.
Western Australian gold explorer Hamelin Gold is taking a data-driven approach to cracking some of the state's most prospective but underexplored terrains, blending geoscience and tech in the hunt for multi-million-ounce deposits.
