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ABB to provide mine hoist systems to increase production at Newmont’s Tanami gold mine in Northern Territory, Australia. Newmont has commissioned leading global technology company ABB to design,...

The Northern Territory work safety regulator has confirmed that a 37-year-old worker has died at a construction site on the Tindal RAAF base in Katherine. The death occurred on the 29th July, and...

A Queensland Industry Health & Safety Representative has told a Coal Mine Inquiry into the Grosvenor mine gas incident has spoken of a broken relationship with Queensland’s mine safety regulator...

Safe Work Australia has today published a new report detailing Occupational lung diseases in Australia for the period between 2006-2019. The report provides an overview of occupational lung...

Safety Mate is proud to introduce the NEXT GENERATION OF SAFETY GLOVES. They successfully brought the ATG range to Australia and now they have gone one better with NXG™. The NXG™ safety glove...

The Pike River mine re-entry will move to previously unexplored areas of the mine drift this week recovering a loader that was operated by one of the mine’s survivors. Re-entry efforts have...

Automation and robotics solutions provider, Scott Technology, has been awarded a further multi-million dollar contract by Rio Tinto to provide and commission the equipment for a new sample...

The Moura mine disaster of 1994 is a case study in the failure of organisational learning and emergency knowledge management, writes Judith Ann Chapman. Just before midnight on 7 August 1994, the...

Sandvik employees have signed up for a vocational training course to boost their digital and networking skills to enhance safety across manufacturing and engineering. More than 20 Sandvik staff...

Mining companies, contractors and the mines regulators have been put on notice by Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Dale Last, following day two of the Ministerial Board of Inquiry...

The release of a Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management will help support the safe management of tailings facilities around the world.  Australian companies actively contributed to the...

The International Council on Mining and Minerals and the United Nations Environment Program today has launched global standards for the safe management of mine tailings. The historic agreement to...

Earth Resources Regulation welcomes the tabling today of the Rehabilitating Mines Audit report from the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office (VAGO). Earth Resources Regulation accepts the...

Metso Outotec has closed the acquisition of the Australia-based fastener and wear monitoring technology provider Davies Wear Plate Systems, extending its wear lining portfolio and capabilities.  ...