Equipment Maintenance
Repairing a giant mining tyre can do more than save replacement cost: for some Australian OTR tyres, it can also avoid up to 10 tonnes of calculated CO₂ while keeping a high-value asset in service.
ContiTech’s new Shield Survivor conveyor belt arrives in Australia’s underground hard-rock market with a 42 percent lower laboratory abrasion-loss result than FR Tuff 2G and applications already in the Americas.
Henkel has moved production of its high impact wearing compound to Victoria and cut lead times by two thirds.
WA-listed companies added almost A$131 billion in market value during FY26, but the strongest performers did more than catch a commodity upswing.
Arafura Rare Earths Managing Director and CEO Darryl Cuzzubbo told the WA Mining Club that Nolans is moving from critical minerals rhetoric to construction reality, but the real test will be processing, ramp-up, suppliers and whether Australia can help build a serious rare earths supply chain outside China.
There’s a moment in every technological revolution when optimism meets reality - when the glossy promise of transformation hits the grit of practical deployment.
When Whitehaven Coal acquired BMA’s Daunia and Blackwater mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, it wasn’t just the company’s biggest purchase to date.
The future of mining is already here - and it’s being shaped by AI systems that can think, act and integrate seamlessly with the tools you already use.
It’s not every day a water cart performs a wheelie on a mine stand—but when it does, the lessons for mechanical engineering and site safety are hard to ignore.
A waste stream from iron ore processing is proving it can outperform conventional materials in building mine haul roads and deliver major environmental gains.
