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Carbine Resources’ Mount Morgan project gets final heritage approval
The Queensland department of natural resources and mines (DNRM) has granted the final heritage approval for Carbine Resources’ Mount Morgan gold copper project, southwest of Rockhampton.
May 30, 2017 0 comment
Macmahon preferred mining contractor for Batu Hijau mine
Macmahon Holdings Limited has announced it has signed a three-year MOU with Indonesia’s PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara. The agreement will see Macmahon assist AMNT to evaluate options to accelerate production from its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine on Sumbawa Island. The parties will also explore options to potentially develop additional deposits in the … Continue reading Macmahon preferred mining contractor for Batu Hijau mine
February 14, 2017 0 comment
Sodexo wins $22m Amrun contract with 20 per cent Indigenous employment target
Rio Tinto has awarded a A$22 million integrated services contract to facilities management provider Sodexo, which includes an Indigenous employment target of 20 per cent within two years. Sodexo will supply camp management services to the Amrun bauxite project on the Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland. Fifty jobs will be required to deliver the … Continue reading Sodexo wins $22m Amrun contract with 20 per cent Indigenous employment target
February 14, 2017 0 comment
Rio Tinto selling stake in Simandou to China
Rio Tinto is selling its stake in Guinea’s Simandou iron ore mine to Chinalco in a deal that will be worth between $1.1 billion and $1.3 billion. Rio was the highest shareholder with 46.6 per cent ownership. The Chinese-owned Chinalco has 41.3 per cent, with the buyout giving them a majority ownership of 87.9 per … Continue reading Rio Tinto selling stake in Simandou to China
October 31, 2016 0 comment
GE and Komatsu announce extended 10-year partnership
Komatsu and GE have announced a ten-year partnership agreement to provide electrical remanufacturing services for mining equipment and vehicles. At Komatsu’s Welshpool facility in Perth, GE will apply expertise to the remanufacturing of wheel motors, alternators and grid blowers for Komatsu mining trucks through Komatsu Reman. Together with GE, Komatsu will improve its Reman build … Continue reading GE and Komatsu announce extended 10-year partnership
October 28, 2016 0 comment
Iceland finds powerful energy source in volcanoes
Iceland is drilling into volcanoes to tap the energy created by magma, which could act as an innovative new form of renewable energy. The Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is currently drilling five kilometres below Reykjanes in south-western Iceland, along a tectonic fault line. At this depth, magma that moves underground through volcanic activity mixes … Continue reading Iceland finds powerful energy source in volcanoes
October 26, 2016 0 comment
Decmil win iron ore contract
Decmil Group has secured a contract to build the airstrip for Sino Iron at Cape Preston.
September 30, 2016 0 comment
Centurion wins BHP freight contract
BHP has awarded a five-year freight contract to transport and logistics supplier Centurion, which will cover BHP Billiton’s Nickel West sites.
September 27, 2016 0 comment
Amec Foster Wheeler win Salamanca contract
Amec Foster Wheeler’s subsidiary, MDM Technical Africa, has won a contract for the world’s only under construction uranium mine.
September 27, 2016 0 comment
Hughes Drilling enters administration
Contractor Hughes Drilling has appointed McGrathNicol as administrators.
September 23, 2016 19 comments
GR Engineering wins processing facility contract
GR Engineering has won an EPC contract for Eastern Goldfields’ 1.2 mtpa Davyhurst processing facility.
September 23, 2016 16 comments
Macmahon fined for worker death
Macmahon has been fined $75,000 for the death of a worker at Glencore’s CSA copper mine.
August 30, 2016 4 comments
CIMIC win coal contract extensions
CIMIC’s Thiess and Sedgman subsidiaries have won $105 million worth of Queensland coal contract extensions.
August 25, 2016 0 comment
Worker injured in arc flash incident
A WA worker has been burnt in a low voltage switchboard arc flash incident.
August 22, 2016 0 comment
Metso sign massive underground mining deal with Codelco
Metso has signed a deal with Codelco to aid the transformation of the enormous Chuquicamata mine from open cut to underground.
August 18, 2016 0 comment
RCR win Rio Tinto iron ore contract
RCR Tomlinson has been awarded a contract to provide materials handling systems at Rio Tinto’s Silvergrass mine.
August 16, 2016 0 comment
Downer wins contract extension at Karara
Downer has secured a four year contract extension with Karara Mining until March 2022
August 15, 2016 4 comments
Lycopodium win Perseus gold contract
Lyocpodium has won a $38.4 million contractor for the delivery of the Sissingue gold project.
August 15, 2016 0 comment
Ausdrill wins contract extension with Perseus
Ausdrill subsidiary African Mining Services (AMS) has signed a contract with Perseus Mining for added mining works at Ghana’s Edikan Gold Mine.
August 12, 2016 5 comments
Rio Tinto contractor conundrum: The new normal in the Pilbara?
Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s decision to use contractors for all external hires from now on will have impacts felt well beyond the pit.
August 5, 2016 1 comment