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(Image source: Bravus) RACE Live uses real-time intelligence to collect data from dozens of points in the supply chain, including other rail network managers, coal loading facilities, port operators and planned maintenance works.

Bowen Rail Company leads the RACE with tech innovation

Bowen Rail Company leads the RACE with tech innovation Bowen Rail Company’s (BRC) RACE Live will be showcased as an example of excellence in innovation at the 2024 Australasian Rail Industry Awards. RACE Live was developed in partnership with Brisbane-based software developer Polymathian to improve safety and productivity when railing coal from the Queensland Carmichael mine to port for export. BRC general manager Brendan Lane says RACE Live’s shortlisting as a finalist in the Freight Rail Excellence category at the rail industry’s national...

Purple trays hit the pit as part of Carmichael mine Peer Supporter Program

Purple trays hit the pit as part of Carmichael mine Peer Supporter Program

Purple trays hit the pit as part of Carmichael mine Peer Supporter Program Bravus Mining and Resources has unveiled the newest and biggest Peer Supporters for the industry-leading mental health program run at its Carmichael mine near Clermont in central Queensland. Bravus Mining and Resources health and safety manager Graeme Furnell said two of the operation’s fleet of 200t CAT 796AC mining trucks had been fitted with trays painted in ‘Peer Supporter purple’ to remind the workforce that support is available should they be going...

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...

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Mining Luminary Madden Mining's new range of LED cap lamps. Cap lamps have been around for almost as long as mining itself. The need for hands free lighting is imperative for safe and efficient work underground but there are cap lamps and there are cap lamps. Just like any tool of the trade, there are lamps that get the job done and lamps that excel and Madden Mining’s cordless cap lamps are firmly planted in the latter category. If you have worked underground for any length of time and suffered the inconvenience of a corded cap lamp, then you will instantly appreciate the tangle-free freedom that Madden’s LED lamps provide. This freedom...

Education valuing independence, learning and growth

Education valuing independence, learning and growth

RESEARCH strongly indicates that continuity of routine and a structured schedule are very important for the overall well-being of children in their early teenage years. This structure includes a stable family life and a reliable education: two important things that every parent or guardian hopes to provide. For parents working in the resources sector, a fly in, fly out or drive in, drive out working life may be of concern due to the lifestyle’s potential impact on their children. The Glennie School offers continuity and excellence in education for girls in a secure and happy learning and living environment. Students begin boarding at Glennie from year seven and are encouraged to develop lasting friendships that will serve as their ‘other...

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Rio Tinto signs MoU with China Baowu to decarbonise steel value chain

The world’s biggest steelmaker, China Baowu, and the world’s largest iron ore producer, Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore multiple new industry-leading projects. The projects include the research, build and demonstration of a pilot-scale electric melter at one of Baowu’s steel mills in China. This will enable the production of low-carbon steel making using direct reduced iron produced from low and medium grade ores. Other projects include optimising pelletisation technology for Australian ores as a feedstock for low-carbon shaft furnace-based direct reduction and expanding the development of China Baowu’s HyCROF technology which largely mitigates CO2 emissions from the blast furnace process. Both companies...

Perseus bids big for West Africa assets

Perseus bids big for West Africa assets

By Samantha James WA junior Perseus Mining has announced an all-scrip bid worth $85 million to take over London-listed Amara Mining, aiming to pool the companies’ respective West African gold assets. Perseus and Amara agreed to a recommended scheme of arrangement in late February which would see Amara shareholders own 35.1 per cent of the merged company – a mid-tier gold producer worth about US$242.3 million. The merger would combine Perseus’ producing Edikan gold mine in Ghana (90 per cent ownership) and Sissingue development project in Cote d’Ivoire (86 per cent) with Amara’s Yaoure gold project in Cote d’Ivoire (90 per cent) and Baumahun project (100 per cent) in Sierra Leone. An optimised pre-feasibility study at Amara’s flagship 7.3 million ounce Yaoure...

Glory days back at Great Fingall

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Glory days back at Great Fingall

IN a significant improvement to the intercept grades, Westgold (ASX:WGX) has received screen fire assays for its Great Fingall mine near Cue in WA, with exceptional figures returned. Westgold sees this drilling as proof that the stratigraphic controls to mineralisation remain in place. It believes that the significant high grades that were produced historically at this site have been returned at greater than twice the former depth and plunge continuity is established at the high-grade Great Fingall Reef. The results have Great Fingall Reef upgraded to 1.57m at 10.10g/t up from 7.95g/t from 1642.18m, 3.1m at 34.05g/t up from 20.17g/t from 1439.7m and 4.35m at 3.27g/t from 1,493.22m at Great Fingall Hangingwall Lodes. Abundant specks of visible gold have been...