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Crystalise - AMR

Crystal Clear Asset Performance | Crystalise 360

Crystal Clear Asset Performance In the digital era where everything is interconnected more than ever, maintaining a safe, reliable and compliant operation demands a holistic approach to asset management. It serves as an essential tool in achieving higher production throughput and equipment availability, reducing operational costs, meeting stakeholder and community expectations, and complying with government and environmental regulations. The mining industry is certainly reliant on the performance of its assets – earthmoving machinery, technology, infrastructure, plant and people. Therefore, the right asset management processes must be in place in order to keep a site running like clockwork. The increase in digital connectivity and remote controlled devices has seen an explosion in the number of data sources, and the volume of...

Aussie Pumps - Australian Pump Industries

Water is Life | Aussie Pumps

Water is Life | Aussie Pumps It’s not an original concept but it was widely promulgated by Ion Idriess, who although is mainly famous as an author, was a prospector, stockman in the Light Horse Brigade in Palestine in the First World War and later became a journalist. Idriess realised the potential of Australia. He travelled over a lot of it on horseback or camel. He understood the need for us to do something about water security for the Inland. Not much has happened and that is why water is so precious for our industry. The uses of water in mining are manifold. Mines don’t want too much of it. Floods can be extremely inconvenient, and they certainly don’t want...

Mascot Control Valves Engineered to Perform

Mascot Control Valves Engineered to Perform

Mascot Control Valves Engineered to Perform The use of water to sustain plant operation, or plant processes, is becoming more sophisticated as the mining and water Industries find new ways of working. There is an increased need for creative and sophisticated solutions in control valve design to ensure smoother and more reliable processes with less valve maintenance. That’s where MASCOT control valves excel in providing customers with design solutions, such as low flow, tight shutoff, anti-cavitation, broader range of material options and faster delivery times. There are four key areas where the company are commonly seeing increased operations. These include desalination, the use of reverse osmosis, the need for greater control within various mining processes, and the increased use of...

Record-breaking Liebherr focuses on alternative drive technologies and digitalisation

Record-breaking Liebherr focuses on alternative drive technologies and digitalisation

Record-breaking Liebherr focuses on alternative drive technologies and digitalisation The Liebherr Group finished the year 2022 with a new record turnover of €12,589 million. Compared to the previous year, the company thus recorded a turnover growth of €950 million or 8.2 %. Difficult general conditions, rapidly rising food and fuel prices, as well as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and related regional lockdowns weighed on economic development and slowed economic growth in the past business year. Nevertheless, Liebherr’s turnover increased significantly compared to the previous year. The group achieved increased turnovers in 10 of its 13 product segments, some of them significant. It thus surpassed its previous turnover record from 2021 by €950 million. Turnover in the seven product segments of earthmoving, material handling technology,...

Holistic Asset Management - Australian Mining Review

Unlock the true value of your site assets with Holistic Asset Management

Unlock the true value of your site assets with Holistic Asset Management MANAGING YOUR mine site assets effectively is a crucial element across the life cycle of a mine and one that if done correctly will ensure maximum throughput and profitability. Effective asset management takes into consideration how best to ensure mining assets are used in the most optimal way, minimising operational downtime and maximising the reliability of the asset. It also means improved production efficiency. Having effective asset strategies driving timely and regular maintenance, repairs and equipment replacement is conducted, instances of unplanned downtime are reduced alongside the associated high costs. In addition, regulatory health and safety standards are met or exceeded and this results in a superior safety...

OEM Group | Australian Mining Review

A Step Above The Rest | OEM Group

A Step Above The Rest Asset owners and site managers are aware of the risks associated with working at heights, and the need to implement procedures that keep workers safe when performing their duties. While keeping projects on track, reducing operational downtime, and increasing productivity all have an impact on business performance, maintaining a safe environment for workers remains a priority. When performing tasks at potentially dangerous heights, employees need the assurance that all the necessary steps have been taken to mitigate unforeseen risk. From mining maintenance, construction sites and manufacturing workshops, to retail, warehousing and everything in between, OEM Group is a company that is keeping a step ahead in safeguarding workers. In the early 2000's, the company identified...

Lithium Mining - KSB Australia

Sustainable Mining for Renewable Energy

Mining plays a critical part in the transition to renewable energy, and the two go hand-in-hand. Renewable energy relies on mined resources, specifically green minerals, otherwise known as battery metals, for both collection and storage of useable energy. Battery metals The development and use of renewable energy systems, such as solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cells, will minimize greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change. But creating these systems on the scale of increasing demand will require increasing amounts of battery metals. Battery metals are mined materials essential to the manufacture of batteries and/or the storage of energy. These materials are crucial to decarbonizing transportation and any widespread transition to renewable energy —...

Cyber Security Feature - Anchoram

Cyber Security – An Integrated Security Strategy for Mining Organisations

By Craig Petrie CSC and Jordan Plotnek PhD from Anchoram Consulting The Australian mining sector is a critical component of the country's economy, contributing significantly to the nation's GDP whilst creating job opportunities for thousands of people. Because of its importance and value to the nation, the mining sector is a growing target for threat actors to conduct cyber-attacks, espionage, and even cause physical damage. Without an adequate level of resilience to security threats, any impacts could have significant consequences to mining operations and output. Protecting your critical mining assets is a challenging task that necessitates the navigation of complex vulnerabilities introduced through both IT and OT systems, as well as the people and processes that support it. An integrated...

Bravus - Australian Mining Review

New research shows healthy black-throated finch populations at the Carmichael mine

New research shows healthy black-throated finch populations at the Carmichael mine World-first research into the Black-throated finch has found populations of the bird are thriving at Bravus Mining and Resources’ Carmichael mine. Bravus Mining and Resources has used the latest findings from three years of expert on-the-ground science to update its Black-throated Finch Management Plan, which is one of many State and Commonwealth regulatory documents that form the operation’s rigorous environmental approvals. The number of habitat condition monitoring sites has more than doubled to 40 under the revised Management Plan, and the research ecologists will add motion-sensing cameras at water troughs and at small water bodies to the cutting-edge bioacoustics and automated radio telemetry tech already in use. The time...

Epiroc - Scooptram

Epiroc advances even further on safety, sustainability, and productivity goals with battery-electric Scooptram ST18 SG

Scooptram ST18 SG is the most powerful loader yet in Epiroc’s growing fleet of battery-electric vehicles. Featuring market-leading battery autonomy and a complete battery safety system, Epiroc’s customers can now go the extra mile when it comes to safety, sustainability, and productivity in the 18-tonne loader segment. “The interest from customers has been extensive and several loaders are already booked. The very first of these machines will be delivered to Boliden’s developing Rävliden mine in Sweden. Scooptram ST18 SG is a great fit for their high ambitions regarding sustainability and automation” says Erik Gert, Global product manager – Scooptram at Epiroc’s Underground division. Scooptram ST18 SG is the answer to the rising demand for large segment loaders in underground operations...

The stars of the campaign: Bijou Wilson (left, in the arms of Cowboys Five-Eighth Tom Dearden) and Estelle Sadlier (right, held by mum Dyhan Sadlier) along with Cowboys Hooker, Jake Granville.

Bravus and Cowboys Join Forces For The Winning Team

The 2023 Platinum Partnership between Bravus Mining and the Townsville-based rugby league football club North Queensland Cowboys has rolled out with little superstars Bijou Wilson, 11 months old, and Estelle Sadlier, 14 months old, both daughters of Bravus co-workers, featured alongside some of the north’s biggest names in rugby – Jack Granville, Tom Dearden and Heilum Luki. Bravus Mining and Resources, formerly Adani Mining, commenced its association with the Cowboys in 2019 as supporter of the “Try for 5!” program, with its association elevated to Major Partner in 2020 and then Platinum Partner in 2021. Bravus Mining and Resources head of community Kate Campbell said it was a real thrill for the company’s workers and their families to appear side...