Australasian Mine Safety Journal

St Barbara Ltd (ASX: SBM) has advised that a recent fall of ground at the Company’s Gwalia mine at Leonora in Western Australia has temporarily interrupted production. This will impact the Q1...

A belt fire has claimed the lives of 16 Chinese mineworkers at an underground coal mine in South West China. One miner also remains critical following the incident according to the Chinese State...

Rio Tinto’s two Gladstone alumina refineries have pushed ahead with $75 million of planned maintenance shutdown work this year, overcoming COVID-19-restriction challenges by using largely locally...

NSW Resources Regulator has published an investigation report into a dangerous incident that occurred at Ashton Coal Mine, Camberwell. On 30 May 2019, a dangerous incident involving an unplanned...

A Queensland opposition MP has confirmed that statutory officials in the mining industry will need to prove their knowledge before being appointed in Queensland under an LNP government. Member for...

Senex Energy Ltd today announced a domestic gas sales agreement (GSA) for up to 2.5 petajoules (PJ) of natural gas with Southern Oil Refining’s Northern Oil Refinery near Gladstone. The GSA will...

Sojitz Corporation has commenced reventilation works of the former Crinum underground mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, a first step towards reopening the site that will eventually employ 300...

Resources Safety & Health Queensland has reported an incident involving a worker been struck by a gauge and some fluid during maintenance. BHP forms heritage body with Banjima native title holders...

Resources Safety & Health Queensland has reported an incident where a worker was struck by a moving stairway on a truck. According to report, a coal mine worker was struck by a moving stairway on...

New Zealand’s MinEx has recently reported an incident that occurred due to failure to lockout. According to Minex, the workshop supervisor went to assist a fitter in diagnosing a bearing failure...

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is introducing a new version of its operator training simulator to safely train underground drill operators or maintenance teams. The new Digital Driller™family...

New Zealand’s MinEx has recently released a safety alert highlighting the dangerous associated with maintenance of hydraulic rock breakers. According to Minex, a worker sustained a serious injury...

Fallen mineworkers have been honoured in a moving speech from the CFMMEU's Glenn Power at the Miners' Memorial Service

The Queensland Government has released a mining safety report detailing requirements for the prevention of mobile plant and equipment from entering exclusion zones of energised overhead...

NSW Resources Regulator has reported a dangerous incident that occurred in an underground mine. Workers in an underground coal mine smelt something burning and noticed that the gearbox output...

A mine fire that burned Peabody Energy’s North Goonyella mine and likely cost the State of Queensland more than 100 Million dollars in coal royalties was overseen by numerous Queensland Government...

US researchers have developed new designs for N95 face masks they say will extend the shelf life of the respiratory protection devices – one of the key pieces of personal protective equipment...

Queensland’s annual memorial for fallen mine workers will be live streamed online for the general public for the first time in 2020. Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said while this years’ service...