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(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

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...

(Image source: Weir) Weir at MINExpo International 2024.

Showcasing Weir’s all-of-mine capabilities at this year’s MINExpo INTERNATIONAL

Showcasing Weir’s all-of-mine capabilities at this year’s MINExpo INTERNATIONAL Exhibiting at this year’s MINExpo INTERNATIONAL conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Weir showcased its market-leading brands and unveiled a range of new innovative technologies and solutions. Weir launched its ESCO® NEXSYS™ GET Lip System for rope shovel dippers, which lowers lip maintenance requirements, extends tooth and adapter life, and ultimately provides miners with longer uninterrupted shovel operation. Additionally, Weir unveiled its double-deck banana screen, ENDURON® ELITE Screen. Available in a range of sizes, the largest of which has a deck measuring 4.3m by 8.5m and weighs nearly 50t,...

Abbot Point gearing up for cyclone season.

Abbot Point Operations storming ahead with wet weather preparations

Abbot Point Operations storming ahead with wet weather preparations Abbot Point Operations (APO) has kicked-off Bowen’s biggest severe weather prep plan to ensure the multi-billion-dollar North Queensland Export Terminal is ready for the cyclone season ahead. APO general manager Damien Dederer said the business activated its Severe Weather Committee each October to review and test the coal export terminal’s systems, people processes and infrastructure, which includes some of the largest manmade structures in the Whitsundays. Six 40m tall stacker-reclaimers and a trestle jetty that stretches 2.75km offshore to a wharf supporting two shiploaders are among the plant and equipment used to export about 35mt of thermal and metallurgical coal...

Queens Beach State School teacher Bec Trask (back left) with Bowen Rail Company’s Lienca Nell (back right) and students with a haul from their kitchen garden.

Bravus blooms little green thumbs in Bowen community

Bravus blooms little green thumbs in Bowen community The Bowen Rail Company (BRC) is supporting the Queensland region’s littlest green thumbs through a grant to the Queens Beach State School kitchen garden program. The Bowen state school was one of four recipients of the latest round of funding from BRC’s Community Partnership Program, designed to assist not-for-profit organisations and community groups with the purchase of small assets that can make a big difference. Queens Beach is part of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program and teacher Bec Trask says the...

International Graphite secures prime Collie site

International graphite secures Collie site for battery anode material manufacturing plant

International Graphite Limited (ASX: IG6) has announced that it has selected the preferred site for its proposed Collie Graphite Battery Anode Material (BAM) Facility in WA. The company has signed an exclusive non-binding memorandum of understanding for an option agreement to negotiate a lease over approximately 20ha of privately owned land in the Coolangatta industrial precinct, located 5km north-east of the Collie town centre. The lease period is set for 20 years with a further 20-year extension available, and the option may be exercised within a two-year period. The commercial lease details will be finalised during the option period. This decision follows the release of the company's scoping study for the Collie Graphite BAM Facility last month. IG6 managing director...

FMG records 212pc profit jump

FMG records 212pc profit jump

FMG’s cost reduction measures have realised a turnaround in annual finance results. By Cameron Drummond IRON ore producer Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) announced a 12c per share dividend on the release of its full year financial results on 22 August. The company posted an after tax profit of $US985 million for FY16, a 212 per cent rise from $US316m in FY15. Fortescue’s underlying earnings before interest, tax depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased 48 per cent from $US2 billion the year before to $US3.2bn. A 29 per cent year-on-year drop in revenue of $US7.1bn was countered by improved C1 operating costs averaging $US15.43 per wet metric tonne (wmt); a 43 per cent reduction from FY15. The company said the numbers reflected...

New terminals to support coal sector growth

New terminals to support coal sector growth

PLANNING is gathering momentum for the proposed expansion of coal-loading facilities at the Abbot Point port in Queensland, after the State Government shortlisted two companies to build the new infrastructure. Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney said mining group Anglo American and NorthHub – a joint venture between Aurizon and Lend Lease – had been selected as potential candidates to develop two new coal terminals which would benefit the burgeoning, critically important export coal sector. The previous government had proposed a multi-cargo facility at Abbot Point that was rejected by the industry, he said. “The proposals outlined by the Bligh Government were never going to come to reality. They were unrealistic and undeliverable,” Mr Seeney said. In coming weeks, the government would...

BHP responds to calls for a low emission operation

BHP responds to calls for a low emission operation

Continuing its commitment to a low emission future, BHP has put Mt Arthur coal mine, in the Hunter Valley up for sale, with JP Morgan and Macquarie Bank taking the lead in the sale. Previous statements from BHP said that thermal coal was a small part of their business, with only a 3% turnover contributing to its overall portfolio. Mt Arthur is an open-cut thermal coal mine and is currently wholly owned by BHP. BHP’s annual report show that Mt Arthur has government approved extraction permits of up to 36 million mt/year and produced 6,150 kcal/kg NAR coal with 19.4% ash and 0.61% sulphur. The company has pledged support for the 2015 Paris climate accord and follows other mining companies...