Turning waste into wealth

PRIVATELY-owned Goldsprings Earthmoving & Heavy Haulage has been operating for more than 20 years, offering its clients complete solutions in transport logistics, rail and civil industries. Brothers Mark and Peter Goldspring established the company in 1991 and it rapidly grew from a small owner-operator organisation to a leader in earthworks and transport solutions. Goldsprings’ heavy haulage aruses Canadian-built Nodwell crawler transport vehicles that are capable of negotiating all terrains including snow, ice, desert sands and swamp and muskeg soil. The company’s growing heavy haulage fleet comprises 33 prime movers and more than 40 trailers, including floats from seven line down to tri axle, extendable flat and step deck trailers, road train and load dollies and tilt trays. Employees are versed...

Bravus Mining Toasts Townsville and its Future as Energy Hub BRAVUS mining and resources chief operating officer Mick Crowe has made a toast to the regional Queensland city of Townsville amongst a slew of some of the country’s most important mining companies at the 2023 mining and resources forum in Townsville in early June. Townsville Enterprise presented its 2023 Mining and Resources Forum on June 6, bringing together speakers from across the mining industry to discuss and celebrate the state’s unofficial northern capital and its contribution to mining and renewables. The event, which was sponsored by local news outlet The Townsville Bulletin alongside The Ville Resort-Casino, Bravus Mining and Resources, Glencore, Goldtower, Helix Legal, MMG, Orica, The Port of Townsville,...

FOR disadvantaged groups like Indigenous Australians to better participate in the infrastructure and mining sectors, collaboration is needed at all levels. Often people from disadvantaged groups struggle to participate as businesses in plant intensive industries due to the cost of equipment to deliver their services, struggles with compliance requirements and technology, and not having a good network of contacts to help find business in the short term and to develop a pipeline of work in the long term. Horizontal directional drilling, civil construction and project management company Maxibor is working to stop this cycle of disadvantage, which has impacts on health, well-being, education and community, and is encouraging all stakeholders to support and help build up micro-businesses across the sector....