Catalyst Metals has announced that it has achieved first stoping ore from Plutonic East Gold, located just off the Great Northern Highway about 950 kilometres from Perth, Western Australia. Plutonic East, a pre-existing underground mine situated near the existing Plutonic processing plant, first began redevelopment activities in April 2024. Ore from the operation will be processed via the currently underutilised…
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Rio Tinto and Edify Energy have signed two new solar and battery hybrid services agreements to increase the supply of reliable energy to Rio Tinto’s Gladstone aluminium operations in central Queensland.
Read MoreAnglo American, owner of a number of operations in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, has earmarked new funding grants to some community groups and not-for-profit organisations in the Moranbah, Middlemount, Moura, Banana and Theodore areas via its 2025 Community Grants Program. The successful 2024 Community Grants Program applicants include: MiddlemountBarada Barna Aboriginal Corporation, Capella Tieri Middlemount Community Support Network, Capricorn Helicopter Rescue…
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With the end goal of extending the life of the mine and sustaining production across its iron ore portfolio, Rio Tinto announced it has invested US$1.8 billion to develop the Brockman 1 mine project extension (BS1). The project has received all of its needed state and federal governmental approvals, and is being developed by the company alongside the Puutu Kunti…
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Last month, Liebherr-Australia executives handed over a new R 9800 excavator that had both its bucket and counterweight painted pink to Roy Hill officials as part of a celebration marking a new partnership between the two companies. The R 9800 is the second of three initial Liebherr excavators to be delivered to the iron ore mine. The 800-tonne machine joins…
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Resources companies have reduced their gender pay gap, but work remains – that is the arterial message of the newly released Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) for 2023-24, per the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia (CME). The agency said the latest data shows the midpoint of the gap in average total remuneration between male and female workers…
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Rio Tinto said it has resumed operations at its East Intercourse Island (EII) facility at Dampier Port in Western Australia after being offline for over five weeks due to Tropical Cyclone Sean. A railcar dumper at the port facility was flooded when the cyclone delivered record rain along parts of the Pilbara coastline in late January. The miner said dumper…
Read MoreResources Victoria’s regulator has issued an infringement notice to Victory Minerals, the owner and operator of the Ballarat gold mine, for a breach of its blast limit. In July 2024, an underground blast exceeded the permitted level of ground vibration between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. local time. Victory Minerals notified the Earth Resources Regulator of the breach and cooperated…
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Rio Tinto said it has completed a successful trial of biofuel across its network of Western Australian ports, railways and mines. The four-week trial, a first for the miner in Australia, was conducted in partnership with global renewable diesel producer Neste and Australian fuel supplier Viva Energy. It provided Rio Tinto with a greater understanding of how renewable diesel could…
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Gold Fields has awarded a contract to renewable energy solutions provider Goldwind to design, manufacture and construct seven wind turbines for its St Ives gold mine, located 80 kilometres south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The turbines will form a 42-megawatt wind farm as part of the miner’s landmark A$296 million St Ives Renewable Energy project, which will become Western…
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