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(Image source: Bravus Mining and Resources) Bravus Mining and Resources communications and community relations advisor Tanya Brown with Shannara and Lucah at the Ronald McDonald House Townsville Family Room.

Bravus Mining and Resources helps bring comfort to regional families in need

Bravus Mining and Resources’ Community Partnership Program is helping provide a home away from home for the families of seriously ill regional Queensland kids receiving care at Townsville University Hospital. The Community Partnership Program offers not-for-profit businesses, groups, or associations in central and north Queensland grants of up to $10,000 for projects that enhance communities through education, skills development, health, sustainability, environmental stewardship and social welfare. Bravus Mining and Resources head of community Kate Campbell says the business is delighted to announce Ronald McDonald House Charities North Australia’s Townsville Family Room as one of the successful recipients in the latest round of Community Partnership Program funding. So far in 2024, more than 14,500 people have made use of the in-hospital…

The Townsville-headquartered Bravus has been associated with the Cowboys since 2019, becoming a Platinum Partner of the NRL squad and presenting partner of the Club’s Adopt-A-School program in 2021.

Bravus playing a whole new ball game

Bravus Mining and Resources has doubled down on its support of the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys, expanding its partnership to include the club’s women’s squad. Bravus Mining and Resources chief operating officer Mick Crowe says signing on as a Major Partner of the NRLW Cowboys is a natural next step in the organisations’ successful history of working together for the social and economic benefit of regional Queensland. “Our Carmichael mine near Clermont and our offices in Townsville and Rockhampton are all in the heart of Cowboys territory and our team members are some of the club’s biggest fans,” he said. “We were lucky enough to have Tom Dearden and Kaiden Lahrs out at the mine in February to launch our…

(Image source: Anglo American) Anglo American project manager Malcolm Smyth and Queensland Mines Rescue Service chief executive Tim Jackson on the Moranbah South lease site.

Anglo American new cutting-edge training centre

A new training centre in a prime Moranbah position will help boost mines rescue capabilities and shorten response times when incidents occur in Queensland’s Bowen Basin mining hub. Anglo American and Exxaro — which own a 50-50 joint venture steelmaking coal exploration project at Moranbah South — have leased an 18ha parcel of land to Queensland Mines Rescue Service (QMRS). The land, on the corner of Railway Road and Moranbah Access Road, is opposite the planned site for stage 3 of the Resources Centre of Excellence. Anglo American Australia chief executive Dan van der Westhuizen says this lease agreement reinforces the company’s unwavering commitment to safeguarding lives and elevating rescue capabilities. “This marks a pivotal moment for the industry’s preparedness…

(Image source: CIMIC Group) In total, the contracts will provide approximately $150 million in revenue for UGL across multiple years.

UGL unlocks $150m in contracts

CIMIC Group company UGL has been awarded several new contracts and contract extensions with existing WA clients: Alcoa (ASX: AAI), bp, Chevron and Woodside (ASX: WDX). UGL has been awarded a contract with Chevron Australia for construction services, supporting the installation of modules, equipment, structure, piping and electrical and instrumentation works. Additionally, UGL has received an 11-month contract extension for the supply of services to Alcoa’s mining and refining operations in WA for the continued management and execution of mechanical, electrical and access services for maintenance work. UGL has also received a two-year contract extension on the supply of maintenance, tank turn around and construction services to BP at the Kwinana Energy Hub. A one-year extension of a non-binding Framework…

Successful capital raising pushes projects ahead

Successful capital raising pushes projects ahead

A successful Metallica Minerals rights issue has raised $2.125 million which will contribute to advancing the company’s Queensland projects towards production. Metallica received about $1.27 million from 220 shareholders, with the balance of the underwritten amount – $850,000 or 5.67 million shares – to be taken up by the underwriter, Patersons Securities. The company stated that net proceeds of about $1.9 million, in combination with existing cash reserves of about $1.5 million, would be used to advance its wholly owned Scandium-Cobalt-Nickel(SCONI) project, as well as its Weipa mineral sands project. “The company is pleased with the support it has received from shareholders, particularly in this very difficult market environment,” Metallica said in a statement. The company’s largest shareholder, Jien Mining,…

Calls for FIFO suicide inquiry

Calls for FIFO suicide inquiry

THE WA Opposition Leader has introduced a motion to Parliament calling for an urgent inquiry into suicides among FIFO workers following a spate of recent deaths in the industry. WA Labor leader Mark McGowan’s motion called on the Parliament’s Education and Health Standing Committee to look into reasons behind the high suicide rate in the FIFO workforce and to recommend initiatives industry and government could take to reduce its prevalence. The push for the inquest came weeks after a worker took his own life on Barrow Island and just over a month after a man was found dead in his room in South Hedland in another suspected suicide. Four FIFO suicides last year were referred to State Coroner Ros Fogliani…

Call for steel to be ‘essential’

Call for steel to be ‘essential’

THE Australian Steel Institute (ASI) has called on the Government to classify the steel industry as essential. The peak industry body represents the entire steel industry value chain, including major producer members BlueScope Steel, InfraBuild Steel, Molycop and Bisalloy, and says the industry must be kept operational in the event of severe lockdowns designed to slow the spread of COVID-19. In a joint statement with the Australian Workers’ Union, the ASI said steel was a high capital cost industry with low people density and high value. “The steel industry already practices very high standards of hygiene to protect all employees from routine work health and safety risks,” they said. “These practices have been galvanised and heighted since the outbreak of…

Pilgan Plant at the Pilgangoora project.

Pilbara Minerals and Calix make final investment decision for mid-stream demonstration plant

Lithium producer Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) and environmental technology company Calix (ASX:CXL) have made a final investment decision to construct and operate a mid-stream demonstration plant at the Pilgangoora project. The project aims to demonstrate the potential to reduce carbon emissions intensity for the hard-rock lithium supply chain via the creation of a high-purity lithium-rich chemical salt using electric calcination that could be powered by renewable energy. Life cycle assessment studies commissioned by Pilbara Minerals have calculated that when using 100% renewable electricity for electric calcination, the carbon emissions intensity of spodumene calcination can be reduced by more than 90% when compared to using coal. Potential reductions in carbon emissions are also anticipated from producing a mid-stream product by avoiding…