rehabilitation

K2fly is set to acquire Decipher’s mining business to strengthen the former’s growing suite in tailings and rehabilitation solutions, after nearly a year of partnership.

New Century Resources has secured a $14 million cost reduction for the rehabilitation of the Century zinc mine in Queensland.

The Australian Mining Prospect Awards Metso Outotec Excellence in Environmental Management award recognises a mine, company, or project that has developed or carried out an innovative, environmentally focused program. 

IGO has collaborated with Barminco to complete a pilot of a battery electric light vehicle (BELV) at its Nova operation in Western Australia.

Glencore’s central Queensland open cut coal operation, Rolleston, has received Government certification for another 166 hectares of rehabilitated mined land.

New Century Resources head of corporate affairs and social responsibility Shane Goodwin recalls the surprise of a phone call in the weeks leading up to the 2019 Australian Mining Prospect Awards.

A former mine site will turn into a sight for sore eyes under Alcoa of Australia’s plan and partnership with the social enterprise Eden Project International.

TerraCom is one step ahead in fulfilling its progressive rehabilitation obligations at the Blair Athol mine in Clermont, Queensland, which is part of its condition for acquiring the mine from Rio Tinto for just $1.

Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) has reinforced its plan for the closure and rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine near Jabiru in the Northern Territory.

Western Australia has introduced a guide for mine site rehabilitation that was backed by funding from mining companies such as BHP, Rio Tinto and Roy Hill.

Hillgrove Resources is set to transform its Kanmantoo open pit mine into a pumped hydro facility in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia.

Komatsu has unveiled the D375Ai-8 ‘intelligent’ dozer, the company’s first mining dozer featuring its Machine Control system.

Australian Mining’s top five stories of the past week included an autonomous truck incident in the Pilbara, mining companies bracing for cyclones across Australia, rehabilitation plans in Queensland, and more.

TerraCom has announced an upgrade in marketable reserves at the Blair Athol thermal coal mine in the Bowen Basin region of Queensland to 23.5 million tonnes. 

Peabody has received certification from the Queensland Government for rehabilitating nearly 90 hectares of the Wilkie Creek open cut mine in the Darling Downs region.

Koala populations in the area of New Hope’s New Acland coal mine in Queensland have remained relatively stable over the past two decades, the results of an independent scientific study showed.

Peabody Australia’s former Wilkie Creek coal mine has been transitioned to post-rehabilitation land uses, during which the company employed 100 per cent of its workforce from the local community of Surat Basin in Queensland.

The Western Australian Government is seeking expressions of interest to reopen and operate the Ellendale diamond mine in Western Australia.

The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority (NT EPA) has returned 30 recommendations after rigorously assessing Glencore’s overburden management project at the McArthur River mine in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

A Port Macquarie based mine has been ordered to suspend all mining operations after failing to pay its environmental rehabilitation deposit.