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The Goonyella Riverside Mine is a large open cut coking coal mine in the Bowen Basin, located near Moranbah. It’s one of seven owned and operated by the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (a joint partnership comprising BHP Billiton and Mitsubishi Corporation), making BMA the largest coal exporter in Australia, and the largest supplier of seaborne coking coal in the world. The company exports more than 55mt of coal annually to over 27 countries. The product is transported by rail to the coal export terminals at Dalrymple Bay and Hay Point, from where it is exported to the  customers in India, China, South Korea, Latin America and Europe. Goonyella is a reasonably large mine, taking 30-40 minutes to drive from one end to the other, and is made up of…

Allied Heat Transfer offers a fully comprehensive end-to-end service for all heating and cooling of liquids for critical plant and equipment. From design, to manufacture, to repair, it has the expertise and capability in everything from thermal mechanical design, recommendation, and supply of materials, to repairing and fabricating replacement components. As well as manufacturing, repairing, and servicing parts, it also supplies a large range of stock products. It holds parts for an extensive range of machinery for heavy equipment, from small coolers right through to large industrial radiators, fans and anything else with components found in cooling or heating units. OEM parts for Australian conditions AHT’s highly trained engineers and technicians are specialists in assessing OEM equipment that is either…

Mining sustains modern living. The materials for building solar panels, wind farms, sustainable homes and computers are obtained through large-scale mining, with thousands of open pit mines created across the globe. Pit lakes are therefore inevitable by-products when abandoned open-cut mines are flooded by rain and groundwater. Some of these lakes are toxic, posing risks to adjacent communities and ecosystems. There is a call for an ‘integrated’ approach to pit lake management from design to closure. Current in situ treatment options such liming of acid waters, pumping out water from pit lakes and actively treating the water with chemicals are both expensive and unsustainable. Strategies that are integrated and sustainable include engaging ecologists in pit lake design and prioritising ecological…

In 2010, Evolution Mining identified an opportunity to fill a vacuum in the Australian gold mining sector, and went about to create a new mid-tier producer. Its first asset was a resource in North Queensland that others believed was not feasible to develop, but undeterred, Executive Chairman and founder Jake Klein, with the assistance of a small management team, pursued a series of bold and complex deals to form the company in November 2011. The move successfully turned that initial resource at Mt Carlton into one of the world’s highest-grade open pit gold mines. And indeed, it’s all in the name: the company has literally evolved from a small one into a globally relevant gold mining business with a reputation…

Mincor has embarked on an exciting new chapter as it prepares to restart nickel sulphide mining in the Kambalda district of WA, one of the world’s great nickel provinces. Since its discovery by WMC Resources Limited in 1966, it has produced more than 51mt of ore grading 3.1% Ni for 1.6mt of nickel metal. Mincor played a leading role in Kambalda’s post-2001 revival, with the company producing about 180,000t of nickel metal in ore over a successful 14-year period as a profitable, dividend-paying mining company before placing operations on care and maintenance in 2016 at a time of historically low nickel prices. The company has a dominant ground position in the Kambalda District with tenements covering more than 300km2 and a…

GLENCORE’S Mangoola open cut mine has long been regarded as one of Australia’s major coal mines, a reputation cemented by a unique award-winning trifecta at the 2019 Australian Mining Prospect Awards. Its Coal Handling and Preparation Plant (CHPP) was named overall Australian Mine of the Year, Coal Mine of the Year and also picked up the award for Excellence in Occupational Health and Safety. Mangoola had previously claimed the Mine of the Year accolade in 2013. The greenfield 1800t/h CHPP was delivered by QCC Resources and Downer under an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in 2011, and delivered below budget, ahead of schedule and without any lost-term injuries (LTI). In fact, since commencement in 2011, the operating team has…

Austin Engineering is a leading designer and manufacturer of mining equipment, including the reputable JEC and WESTECH brand, bringing more than 50 years’ experience in engineering and manufacturing equipment for the mining industry. Austin partners with top companies and OEMs to engineer customised solutions to mining challenges. Its highly sought-after quality products include dump truck bodies, buckets, tyre handlers, ancillary equipment, engineering solutions and a new range of patented, innovative water tanks. Austin Engineering’s range of water tanks are designed with an innovative baffle which greatly reduces the effects of surging to allow a more stable and safer operating water tank option. Baffles?are flow-directing vanes or panels used in tanks to direct the flow of?fluids?for maximum efficiency. The baffles interlock in an eggcrate formation providing accuracy in manufacturing with increased structural…