The Australian Mining Review June 2026 Edition

On 65 Roses Day, send your loved ones a rose from the mines, and it will be helping people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) at the same time. CF is a rare recessive genetic disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system and other organs in the body, and for which there is currently no cure. On 65 Roses Day, Friday, May 28, you can make a real difference to those living with the disease. A typical 65 Roses Day sees the streets flooded with red roses being sold by volunteers, but COVID-19 put a stop to that last year and saw the introduction of a virtual rose. Virtual roses mean every West Aussie, no matter how remote, can...

BLACK Cat Syndicate (ASX: BC8) has reported that its Myhree deposit near Kalgoorlie, WA, has uncovered a large gold interval grading 1130g/t. The interval was 0.5m and within a broader intercept of 1.7m grading 335.96g/t gold. Infill drilling is underway at the deposit to update the resource and provide further information on the geological, geotechnical and metallurgical characteristics of the mineralisation. Other assays received to-date included1.7m at 335.96g/t from 52.2m, 7m at 9.84g/t gold from 59.5m, 4.74m at 5.99g/t gold 166.3m, and 3.04m at 3.07g/t gold from 140.6m. Part of the Bulong gold project, the Myhree and Trump deposits are undergoing open pit feasibility studies by Black Cat, due for completion in the June 2020 quarter with extensional RC drilling kicking...

First Sandvik DR410i drill rig arrives at Gruyere The first of six Sandvik DR410i rotary blasthole drill rigs has arrived at the Gruyere gold mine. A joint venture between Gold Fields and Gold Road Resources (ASX:GOR), the Gruyere gold mine lies 1200km northeast of Perth in WA’s northeastern Goldfields. The mine is a tier one low-cost and long-life asset with current mine life of more than 10 years. In 2022, Gruyere delivered record annual gold production of 314,647oz. The Sandvik DR410i is a diesel-powered, self-propelled, crawler-mounter blasthole drill, ideal for surface mining. The Sandvik intelligent control system architecture gives operators real-time system diagnostics to monitor the health and performance of...

RESEARCHERS have developed new methods for recognising potential mineralisation hidden beneath barren cover rocks in under-explored areas of WA. A major collaboration between the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia (MRIWA), the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) and sponsor Gold Road Resources, the project seeks to apply new computational technology to solving the challenges of mineral exploration below barren cover rocks. The work targeted WA’s Eastern Yilgarn Craton and Albany-Fraser Orogen, where highly-endowed regional geology known to host world-class mineral deposits is buried and hidden from view by later sediments. Led by geophysicist Mark Lindsay at the University of WA, the CET research team developed innovative processing techniques to improve the quality of conventional geophysical constraint, and applied cutting-edge machine...