Tag: Macmahon

Macmahon (ASX:MAH) has completed the acquisition of Pit N Portal, the underground business of Emeco (ASX:EHL) as well as related site infrastructure assets, inventory and light vehicles. Valued at about $10m, the transaction includes Pit N Portal’s operations at Wyloo’s Durkin and Cassini mining projects, the transfer of Pit N Portal customer contracts, employees and non-mining fleet assets to Macmahon, in exchange for surface and underground mining equipment which are core to Emeco. Emeco and Macmahon have also entered a five-year agreement under which Emeco will become Macmahon’s preferred equipment rental provider for both surface and underground, including the rental of Emeco’s existing underground fleet at projects transferring to Macmahon. Emeco chief executive and managing director Ian Testow says that…

Macmahon has initiated a series of veteran assessment days this year. Image: Macmahon. BY EMMA DAVIES MINING services contractor Macmahon and the Working Spirit group have joined forces  to improve employment opportunities available to Australian defence force veterans as they transition to civilian work. Macmahon manager human resources Katherine Blacklock said most veterans had been extensively trained and their experience and knowledge was a “highly transferrable fit for many mining and associated industry roles”. “Typically, veterans breed integrity and hard work and have shown leadership under stressful conditions,” Ms Blacklock said. “Veterans often tell us the transition process can be quite jarring and many feel there is a need for a new wave of consistent government policy and direct pathways…

Operations at the Calabar project in Nigeria had now come to an end. Image: Macmahon. By Elizabeth Fabri MACMAHON has ended its Calabar contract in Nigeria two years ahead of schedule following a kidnapping incident in June involving seven staff. The contract, set to finish in 2018, was terminated early due to security concerns and ongoing low mining volumes linked to the client’s production plant. On 28 October operations at the project ceased, and demobilisation was now in progress. “We’ve been working at Calabar since January 2012 and our contract has been to undertake quarrying operations at UniCem’s 2.5Mtpa cement manufacturing plant in Mfamosing, about 40km north east of Calabar in Cross River State, Nigeria,” a company spokesperson said. “During this…