Anglo American

In the hunt for contracts in Queensland’s coal sector, MacKellar Mining has turned to Liebherr for the supply of equipment that offers a competitive advantage.

Anglo American is completing a series of workforce briefings at the Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland to improve safety using data science ahead of planned restart of longwall mining at the site next year.

Keep up with the latest executive appointments across the mining sector, headlined by the World Coal Association recruiting an Anglo American veteran as its new chairman.

Anglo American has commissioned Fenner Dunlop Australian Conveyor Engineering (ACE) to deliver an overland conveyor system to the Aquila coal project in Queensland.

Anglo American chief executive Mark Cutifani is mulling over the company’s exit from its South African thermal operations.

Anglo American will not restart the Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland until next year, but briefings about the future of the workforce have already started.

Anglo American has finished the second quarter of 2020 with a drop in production at both the Moranbah and Grosvenor coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin.

Anglo American suspects a “brief ignition event” occurred in the Grosvenor underground coal mine in Queensland during June, in addition to the blast that injured five people earlier in the year.

Anglo American has defended its safety systems and practices at the Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland, saying they draw on international best practice despite an accident that injured five people in May.

A British law firm’s effort to save the Indigenous community of Provincial in the La Guajira region of Colombia from the alleged impacts of the Cerrejón coal operation has backfired.

A BHP-backed coal mine in Colombia has been accused of violating the human rights of the Provincial Wayuu community amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Anglo American has kept its operations at the Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland suspended, which has led to oxidation of coal and gas levels to rise.

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The Queensland Government will investigate what caused an underground explosion at Anglo American’s Grosvenor coal mine in central Queensland last week.

Anglo American has commenced a staged re-entry of the Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland after receiving approval from the state’s mines inspectorate.

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Anglo American has halted operations at the Grosvenor coal mine in central Queensland after an accident that injured five people.

Only two of the 10 largest mining companies are on track to limit climate change to two degrees Celsius, according to the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).

Anglo American’s metallurgical coal production guidance remains unchanged at 19 to 21 million tonnes, subject to the coronavirus disruptions that have led to the company to revise its thermal coal export guidance.

Anglo American has joined forces with Komatsu to rehabilitate the Dawson coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin by planting 9000 trees.