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Industry mourns mine operator fatality

Colleagues and loved ones are reeling from an underground worker’s death. An operator became the fourth workplace fatality this financial year at Harmony Gold Mining Company’s Tshepong...

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On the skids

[hr]Specialist crash investigator and mine site driving trainer, George Foessel examines the reasons why the condition of road surfaces and driver training are so important to mine site safety.[hr]...

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Ear to the ground

The novel application of acoustic emissions technique is providing industry with a mechanism to monitor machine noise in real time and maximise efficiency. Maryrose Cuskelly reports. The acoustic...

BHP says coal is still king. For now.

The head of BHP told a gathering of industry heavyweights in the US that  over 70 per cent of the world’s energy will still be supplied by oil, gas and coal by 2030 and that while gas will be the...

Broken Hill Resources and Energy a winning combination

As we begin a new year and look back on a roller coaster ride in 2011 it seems that 2012 will bring a host of challenges and opportunities for the Australian mining and energy industries. The...

Process control systems

Real time analysis helps operations manage and control material variability,  On-line analysers can be effectively utilised to improve the consistency of feed and product quality through bulk...

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