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Water Technology lives and breathes the challenges of land and water management. The team at Water Technology has a broad profile of specialised skills across all areas of water, coastal and environmental management and its services encompass almost every aspect of surface water and groundwater interaction within the natural and built environment. With extensive knowledge and experience of surface water, groundwater, coastal and waterway management across Australia, the company delivers practical, high-end engineering solutions to day-today complex water related problems. The Australian Mining Review (AMR) spoke with Luke McPhail, a Senior Water Management Specialist from Water Technology, and five leading technical specialists from across the business, to dive a little deeper and learn about the range of innovative technical services…

Wear parts are on the front line at mine sites to extract, excavate and move material and they also need to protect the primary asset being used for material handling. If the quality of the steel that goes into the parts is inferior, and if the casting process is not completed to a high standard, they will wear out sooner. This not only leads to higher maintenance costs through the need to replace wear parts more regularly. It also blows a giant hole in the budget by failing to protect the main asset such as the parent bucket, which will also need to be replaced sooner. Lower quality wear parts also lead to more resistance, and therefore lost productivity, when…

In 1996 Stuart MacGregor designed what was to become central to an evolving and innovative series of anchored instrumentation. A sixth-generation gold miner – and hoping his 19-year-old son is on his way to becoming the seventh generation – Stuart, the managing director and principal geotechnical engineer of SCT Operations,  designed the first Rock-IT instrumentation with the effective and accurate measurement of ground movement in mind. “In a former role, I spent a lot of time underground, and my job was to measure the ground moving, so this is where a lot of these ideas crystalised,” he said. “When I joined SCT (Strata Control Technology) the coal industry didn’t have the experience in monitoring ground movement. “These instruments are all…

The Mount Pleasant coal mine at Muswellbrook, NSW, has applied to extend its lifespan by 22 years and double the amount of coal extracted each year. Joint venture owners MACH Energy and JCD Australia have lodged an Environmental Impact Statement with the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. The proposal will increase the extraction, processing, and processing of run-of-mine (ROM) coal from the current rate of 10.5mt to 21mt per year. The project will increase open cut extraction within the Mount Pleasant  leases by mining of additional coal reserves, including lower coal seams in North Pit. The EIS is seeking staged upgrades to the existing coal handling and prep plant and coal handling infrastructure to facilitate the handling and…

Optimised mill throughput is one of the most significant areas of operation on a working mine site. Ensuring that ore is being crushed and ground to size and passed through as efficiently as possible is as critical as minimising costly downtime required for relining. It’s all about tonnes per hour, but there are some new smart ways to achieve more total throughput, monitor the condition of the mill’s wear lining to maintain steady flow and also increase safety when it comes time to reline. Safety First Bradken has been manufacturing and installing consumable liners for SAG and Ball mills for many years, but that journey has seen the company constantly develop new technology to help its customers increase profitability and…

With more than 30 years of in-house experience on drilling techniques, maintenance and training, Ausmain has fast become renowned for its teams of drill specialists who are highly motivated, well-equipped and eager to share their technical expertise. But just as important as the ability to deliver the highest level of maintenance, the privately-owned WA company prides itself on training and mentoring its clients, both domestically and internationally. The company’s trained technicians and specialists are led by General Manager Jonathan O’Reilly and Operations Manager Daniel McLeod. Both men boast highly experienced mining industry tenures in their resumes. Jonathan is a manager with a demonstrated history of working in the equipment, servicing and training industry, skilled in developing people and identifying high…

Epiroc has completed the acquisition of Kinetic Logging Services Pty Ltd, an Australian company that provides mining companies with geophysical logging services. Kinetic Logging Services, based in Perth, Australia, provides mining-technology measurement services to build improved geological models that help mining companies increase productivity. The company’s flagship product is OreSight, a highly advanced solution that provides near real-time borehole assay data and grade information. The mining companies feed this data directly into their blast pad models, allowing them to make improved decisions on production and ore blending. The company, which was part of MPC Kinetic Holdings, has about 180 employees and has annual revenues of about MAUD 30 (MSEK 195). The transaction is not subject to a disclosure obligation pursuant…

Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) this week announced a 207mt maiden JORC resource estimate at its 100% owned Noombenberry Halloysite-Kaolin Project. LRS has named its first deposit the Cloud Nine Deposit – the first Kaolin-Halloysite deposit defined within the company’s larger Noombenberry Project. The Could Nine deposit is located on the company’s 100% owned exploration licence E70/2622, which is situated approximately 350 kilometres to the east of Perth and to the south-east of the town of Merredin. The resource looks to be better than $475M capped Andromeda’s 210mt resource. A global Inferred Mineral Resource estimate for the Cloud Nine Deposit of 207 million tonnes of kaolinised granite has been reported by RSC, using an ISO Brightness (“ISO-B”) R457 cut-off of 75.…

Press release from Epiroc AB May 28, 2021 Stockholm, Sweden: Epiroc, a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has agreed to acquire Kinetic Logging Services Pty Ltd, an Australian company that provides mining companies with geophysical logging services. Kinetic Logging Services, based in Perth, Australia, provides mining-technology measurement services to build improved geological models that help mining companies increase productivity. The company’s flagship product is OreSight, a highly advanced solution that provides near real-time borehole assay data and grade information. The mining companies feed this data directly into their blast pad models, allowing them to make improved decisions on production and ore blending. The company is part of MPC Kinetic Holdings, has about 180 employees…