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BHP has felt the impact of Australia’s bushfires, with its New South Wales energy coal production affected during the first half of the 2020 financial year due to poor air quality at the  mines.

Stay on top of the most popular stories on Australian Mining over the past week, including Rio Tinto awarding Mondium a $400 million construction contract.

BHP has welcomed the arrival of the first modules that are destined for the South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

Gender diversity is at the top of the agenda for many firms, not as a societal obligation but because of the real value it delivers.

BHP board member and director Lindsay Maxsted will not stand for re-election to the company’s board of management this year.

BHP contractor Fluor Corporation has commenced the construction of the ore handling plant in the South Flank project in Western Australia.

Stay on top of the most popular stories on Australian Mining over the past week, including a sharp increase in the Australian dollar gold price following the Iranian missile attacks.

Monadelphous Group has secured construction and maintenance contracts involving BHP in Western Australia.

Mining companies such as BHP and Rio Tinto have responded to the national fire crisis by donating millions in funds to the Red Cross. 

BHP’s BMA Broadmeadow underground mine has received global praise for its work to reduce dust and diesel particulates from its Moranbah operations in Queensland.

Automation is considered the future of mining, but as two of Dyno Nobel’s leaders explain, it can also be used to collect data that help to plan for sustainable outcomes.

Two of BHP’s executive leadership team members are set to depart the world’s biggest mining company next year as a transformation of its management continues.

Stay on top of the most popular stories on Australian Mining over the past week, including the completion of NRW Holdings’ acquisition of BGC Contracting.

BHP plans to reconsider its industry associations due to their different positions on climate and energy policies by August next year.

Mammoet has started transporting the first heavy components for BHP’s South Flank iron ore project, which is under construction in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

Since its introduction two years ago, BHP’s innovation centre at Eastern Ridge, Western Australia has been a hub for creating, monitoring and understanding data.

BHP have announced the appointment of Gary Goldberg, previously Newmont Goldcorp Corporation’s CEO, to the BHP Board as a non-executive director effective February 1 2020.

Monadelphous has selected REMA TIP TOP Australia to install more than 50 kilometres of conveyor belting for the $US3.6 billion ($5.26 billion) BHP Western Australian Iron Ore South Flank project in the Pilbara.

BHP has reached its halfway point at its South Flank project in the Pilbara, Western Australia, with thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions getting ready to construct the rail mounted stackers and reclaimer.

BHP’s next chief executive Mike Henry has placed technology front and centre in his first speech as CEO to-be.