Mines & Projects
In an industry where incremental improvements are the norm, a new variable-energy blasting system is delivering a true step change in underground blasting.
When a critical piece of underground infrastructure collapsed at Burkina Faso’s Yaramoko Mine, the clock was ticking.
In the remote Altai Mountains of eastern Kazakhstan, a centuries-old underground mine is undergoing a transformation.
Underground haulage is often regarded as a necessary bottleneck—an unavoidable compromise between ore delivery and operational congestion.
A worker was injured earlier this month at a shaft-sinking project near Menangle, New South Wales, after being struck by a personnel conveyance descending the kibble well in an underground winder shaft.
A surge in heavy vehicle rollovers across New South Wales mining operations has triggered a formal safety bulletin from the NSW Resources Regulator, urging immediate risk-based interventions to stem the trend.
The 2025 South Australian State Budget has landed with all the fanfare of a damp squib for the state’s mineral exploration and mining sector.
The NSW Resources Regulator has released a revised Technical Reference Guide (TRG): Monitoring and Control of Worker Exposure to Airborne Dust, aimed at helping mine operators meet legal obligations and safeguard workers from inhalable hazards, including respirable crystalline silica.
At the 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference (MREC2025) in Perth, Glencore principal geologist Bruno Afonseca presented a compelling case study that could help reshape how the mining industry quantifies and manages risk.
What if resource estimation wasn’t just updated, but completely reimagined? At the AusIMM 2025 Mineral Resource Estimation Conference in Perth, two respected voices in the field—Jacqui Coombes and Paul Hodkiewicz—stepped away from PowerPoint slides and into a candid, thought-provoking dialogue that challenged the mining industry to rethink its most foundational assumptions.
