Severe weather will suspend a North Australian resources operation for almost a year. Tropical Cyclone Megan’s 200km/h winds and 681mm of rainfall is likely to delay production at Groote...
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Dangerous weather caused destruction to a major resources operation. Tropical Cyclone Megan recently impacted on South32’s Groote Eylandt Mining Company (GEMCO) mine. The category-four system...
A multinational resources producer temporarily stopped mineral production because the ground shook violently. Mining work was suspended after several employees reported an earthquake at BHP’s...
A multinational mining company will give workplace catastrophe victims extra time off duties. Anglo American recently promised to grant “critical incident leave” to employees impacted by...
Wet weather forced at least two resources operations to temporarily shut down and remove their workers across Queensland. Heavy rains and floods have temporarily closed Kestrel Coal Resources’s...
Readers will no doubt be aware of the succession of tailings dam failures and catastrophes around the world including Mount Polley in Canada in 2014, Samarco in Brazil in 2015 where 19 people died...
A mining giant suffered a blow to its latest production volumes due to smokey haze from dozens of bushfires. BHP has blamed poor air quality for an 11 per cent drop in energy coal production at its...
Businesses affected by a delayed monsoon season that brought devastating floods to northern Queensland will receive some much-needed help. The disaster has already claimed the lives of more than 300...
FROM Sunday one of the largest health and safety conferences in the southern hemisphere will be staged on the Gold Coast for the first time in its 28-year history. The Queensland Mining Industry...
Compensation has been denied to a former mine employee who swapped shifts with a co-worker on the day of the 1994 Moura Mine disaster. In 2011 the man filed a claim with the Supreme Court of...
