Equipment Maintenance
At BHP’s Prominent Hill operation in South Australia, an ambitious geotechnical strategy is reshaping expectations for shaft sinking.
As global demand for high-purity copper climbs in step with electrification and renewable energy targets, attention is turning to the tankhouses that produce this critical metal.
When a critical piece of underground infrastructure collapsed at Burkina Faso’s Yaramoko Mine, the clock was ticking.
Underground haulage is often regarded as a necessary bottleneck—an unavoidable compromise between ore delivery and operational congestion.
A coal mine worker narrowly avoided injury when a raw coal stacker boom suddenly and forcefully luffed upward during a lowering operation, according to a safety alert issued by Resources Safety & Health Queensland (RSHQ).
The NSW Resources Regulator has issued a safety alert following a near miss involving a front-end loader and a light vehicle in an open cut mine, highlighting the risks of operator distraction and visibility limitations in mobile plant operations.
When a major weather event halted production at Evolution Mining’s Ernest Henry Operations (EHO) in March 2023, it set the stage for a remarkable operational comeback that would go on to earn Matt Bouwmeester the Best Paper of the Conference award at the 2025 AusIMM Underground Operators Conference in Adelaide.
When Sweden-based miner Boliden set out to futureproof its Renström underground operations for autonomous mining, it quickly ran into a persistent problem: water.
A quiet revolution may be underway in the metallurgical processing world, and it starts not with a new orebody, but with the way water is removed from copper concentrate.
At the AusIMM Underground Operators Conference 2025 in Adelaide, Newmont Principal Advisor, Technical Planning Systems Ismail Ozen delivered a rare blend of candour and insight as he unpacked the dramatic turnaround of stope performance at Musselwhite Mine.
