Australian mining news

BHP Billiton has provided an update on an incident at its Saraji mine in Queensland and regretfully confirms one fatality.

The New South Wales IPC has approved Clean TeQ’s Modification 4 for the development of its Sunrise project.

Regional Queenslanders are fed up with activists who break the law to protest against new mines and infrastructure.

Scania and Rio Tinto are together trialling a new autonomous transport system at Rio Tinto’s Dampier Salt operations in Western Australia.

An Albemarle subsidiary will acquire a 50% interest in the Wedging hard rock lithium project in Western Australia.

MICROMINE has integrated its latest fleet management and mine control solution, Pitram, as well as its latest 3D mine design and exploration solution, Micromine, with IREDES.

Organisations with a combined membership of 76 million are calling on insurance companies to publicly rule out support to build the Carmichael coal mine in Australia.

‘Blonde Bomb’ hydrogen peroxide-based explosive is non-toxic and is intended as an environmentally friendly blasting material.

Ausenco is planning an industry response plan to address failures of long distance slurry pipelines.

Pacton Gold provides an update on the company’s Pilbara Gold strategy, with a key highlight being the appointment of Jonathon Campbell as Field Logistics Manager of the company.