Northern Star maintains $225m exploration budget

300 jobs impacted as Bald Hill mothballed Mineral Resources (ASX: MIN) will transition its Bald Hill lithium mine into care and maintenance this week with about 300 staff impacted. The company says all Bald Hill employees will be redeployed, followed by a redundancy process if opportunities cannot be found. Mining and mobile maintenance operations cease today, with the spodumene concentrate plant and accommodation village scheduled to temporarily cease operations by early December this year. MinRes managing director Chris Ellison says Bald Hill is a significant...

$91m injection to power 6 new Australian projects The Federal Government’s Powering the Regions Fund is injecting $91m into six new projects to help cut heavy industry emissions, after its $330m investment into nine projects in April this year. The projects will lower energy use, swap out fossil fuels with cleaner alternatives and cut more than 1mtpa climate pollution, equivalent to...

AFTER 18 months of successful field trials conducted across three WA mine sites, MineWare has announced the launch of its Argus Wheel Loader (WL) system—an OEM independent wheel loader monitoring system that lifts productivity and reduces cost per tonne in real time. Argus WL delivers real-time feedback to the wheel loader operator via an intuitive touchscreen to make material handling and loading jobs safer, faster and more accurate. MineWare marketing and sales vice president Roy Pater said Argus WL extended the company’s portfolio of monitoring systems as customers continue to digitise their operations and leverage real-time information across more of their ground engaging equipment. “Building on the success of our world-leading Argus and Pegasys monitoring systems for electric rope shovels,...

AFTER building equipment in Australia for more than 34 years, Ekebol is the leading manufacturer of tilt tray truck bodies and heavy recovery equipment in the country. It is renowned for the reliability, strength and durability of its products, along with the after sales service its staff provide. Ekebol tilt trays and heavy recovery equipment are sold and used throughout Australia, and internationally in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, New Zealand, Africa and China. The company’s product range includes tilt trays from 3t to 16t capacity, tri-axle super tilt trailers with 22t capacity, and heavy recovery equipment capable of moving B-doubles through to road trains with up to 150t towed loads. The company has provided its TFS-12 and TFS-16...