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COMMENT

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IN THE WAKE OF THE PROSPECT AWARDS, SENTIMENT REMAINED POSITIVE, DESPITE A POOR YEAR

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nother year and another successful Australian Mining Prospect Awards.

The sector gathered to celebrate, recognise, and reward innovation and excellence in the mining industry, and celebrate they did.

From more than 100 nominations we managed to narrow it down to 15 winners, with the fairly new Peoples’ Choice award the most impressive in its voting, with just over 6000 votes cast in our online poll.

As usual the most heavily contested rounds were in the innovation and mine safety categories, which saw a swathe of new developments and inventions nominated.

But what I found most impressive is that people were still upbeat about the industry.

While none would deny that this has been a difficult year, both economically and in people costs, with this issue being acknowledged throughout the show, all we spoke to that night are focusing on 2015 as a much better year ahead.

And this is the message that I hear consistently from analysts and the market, as well as the miners themselves.

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FRONT COVER 2014 was a horror year, but the industry was not going in to it blind. We were all aware that this was going to be a difficult 12 months ahead, but we had no idea just how rough the ride would actually be.

Iron ore fell below the US$80 mark not once but twice, coal struggling consistently, gold retreating from its historic highs, uranium not yet making its bounce back, in fact it only seemed to be graphite that really caught investors’ attention this year.

But as ever, onwards and upwards.

So how will the industry fare next year?

We will be researching the forecast for mining in-depth in the next edition, so keep your eye out for that, and always, enjoy the magazine.

Cheers, Cole

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On the front cover of this November edition we’ve featured our Prospect Awards winners.

Understandably the awards are a program which we here at Australian Mining are very proud of, and now in its eleventh year, we’re glad to say we’ve not lost our focus of recognising and rewarding talent and innovation within the mining industry.

In this issue, if you move to the news page, you can also see the cover of Australian Mining from 100 years ago. This is a new segment we’ve decided to incorporate, to highlight not only the heritage of the magazine, but demonstrate how the industry has changed.

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CONTENTS

AUTOMATION & REMOTE CONTROL

JUNIOR MINERS ROCKY ROAD AHEAD FOR JUNIOR MINERS The future, as forecast by the JUMEX report

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A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR AUTOMATION Making the next LEAP in process control

DRILL, BLAST & GEOMECHANICS

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MINE OF THE YEAR….P32 HARD ROCK MINE OF THE YEAR….P34 COAL MINE OF THE YEAR…36 INNOVATIVE MINING SOLUTION…P38 EXCELLENCE IN MINE SAFETY, OH&S…P40 EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT…..P32 CONTRIBUTION TO MINING…..P43 MINERALS PROCESSING OF THE YEAR….P44 CONTRACTOR OF THE YEAR….P46 MANAGER OF THE YEAR……P48 MINING’S WOMAN OF THE YEAR…P50 EXPLORER OF THE YEAR….P52 YOUNG ACHIEVER….P54 COMMUNITY INTERACTION…..P56 PEOPLES’ CHOICE…..P58-59

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n July last year I was asked to speak at a town meeting in regional NSW, where the local community was suffering from local mining job losses.

A young schoolteacher stood up and told of children coming to her school with empty lunch boxes because of the impact of mining job losses on family budgets.

That town was Lithgow.

Last week, the NSW government had the chance to turn this around. It had the opportunity to stand up for local jobs and to provide opportunities for a community reeling from rising unemployment by protecting mining jobs, in an historic mining region, where almost 800 mining jobs have been lost in the past two years.

The Coalpac consolidation project had the support of the NSW Planning Department, NSW Treasury and the Department of Trade and Investment.

It had the support of the local council, the hardworking local MP, and the wider local community.

You would think the NSW government would support mining projects that provide mining jobs in a mining region.

Instead the NSW government failed the town and its people.

The abdication of its decision making powers to a faceless panel, the Planning Assessment Commission

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(PAC), was a nail in the coffin for the people of Lithgow.

With no compulsion to stand up for local jobs, the PAC was swayed by out-of-town activists and protesters.

In the wake of this job-destroying decision, another mine near Lithgow has announced that it will be going into care and maintenance, with about 170 further job losses that will add to the economic downturn in the region.

The professional activists who opposed the Coalpac project have no regard for local communities or local employment.

They travel like locusts from mine project to mine project across NSW, attempting to derail proposals that would provide desperately needed jobs. They aren’t members of the local CWA or business chamber.

You won’t see them down at the RSL or watching their kids play soccer and netball on the weekend. You won’t see them at the next school weekend working bee. By then they will have moved on to the next target.

Meanwhile, local communities like Lithgow are made to suffer.

There are currently 20,000 mining jobs caught up in the NSW planning system.

This includes 14,000 potential new jobs and 6000 current jobs.

Given the state of the planning system, all these jobs should be considered at risk.

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“I am excited about the potential our new partnership has to make a real difference in health outcomes for young people in this State and beyond for generations to come.”

Telethon Kids Institute Director, Professor Jonathan Carapetis, said the funding ensures Telethon Kids’ new blueprint to make a tangible difference in the community would be realised.

would be posted outside the Brisbane International Airport for the G20 summit, however one entry has been branded as ‘sick’ and been branded disgraceful.

The entry itself states “Dear World Leaders, Don’t let the coal lobby get their dirty hands on our future”, and features a young girl appearing to be terrified with a man’s blackened hands across her mouth.

The AYCC quickly saw a backlash on its social media, with one commentor stating “Pleeaaase no pedophile reference” [sic], and another describing it as “a bit sick”.

The Queensland Resources Council as quick to condemn the entry, stating “the activists have stooped to a new low with the disgusting banner”.

BHP has made a massive donation to help improve the health and wellbeing ANU BACKPEDALS ON of kids in WA, kicking in $20 million for DIVESTMENT BLACKLIST Telethon. The money will be distributed over five years, with the first $4 million to kick-start Telethon on Saturday night.

Australian National University chancellor More than $1 million a year will also be ‘PAEDOPHILIC’ ANTI-COAL Gareth Evans has expressed his regret over used to create a new program focused on their resource company stock divestment.

BANNER PULLED Indigenous health issues in the Pilbara.

In a letter to Santos CEO David Knox, BHP Billiton’s iron ore boss Jimmy Evans said the university regrets any Wilson said the company was proud to The Australian Youth Climate Coalition embarrassment suffered by Santos over support Telethon.

(AYCC) have pulled an entry for a billboard the decision to divest interests in the “Our contribution will fund more than near the upcoming G20 summit that railed gas producer, AFR reported.

40 new research positions, as well as against coal, following a backlash that it Evans wrote that although Santos was important studies into Aboriginal health, featured paedophilic overtones. a contributor to social harm caused by which could AM 1 1generate 1 4 _ 0ground-breaking 0 0 _ E N G new 1 The 2 0 AYCC 1 4 - has 1 0run - a2competition 2 T 1 1 : on 0 its 9 : 4CO2 9 + emissions, 1 1 : 0 0ANU accepted that “the research right here in WA,” Wilson said. facebook page to create a billboard that energy produced by Santos powers needed utilities and industries – contributing to the social good.

“The council will, of course, review its decision if it is persuaded that there are flaws in the methodology used by ANU’s consultants, CAER, to rank companies or if there are inaccuracies in the information relied on by CAER,” Evans wrote.

“Neither I nor the vice-chancellor nor any other ANU council member to my knowledge has described Santos specifically as a ‘socially irresponsible’ company.

“We are aware of the many positive contributions that your company, and some others from which we are divesting, have made to Australian society.”

Despite the divestment move being driven by the student-run Convention 2014 brings together the fittest minds and ANU Environment Collective and the engineering talent to discuss the future of engineering international divestment movement in Australia and around the globe.

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JUNIOR MINERS

ROCKY ROAD AHEAD FOR JUNIOR MINERS THE LATEST JUMEX REPORT OUTLINES A ROCKY POSITION FOR MANY JUNIOR MINERS AND EXPLORERS, HOWEVER THEY REMAIN POSITIVE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE INDUSTRY. COLE LATIMER WRITES

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perfect storm has been created for junior Australian mining companies, with a number unlikely to weather the turbulence.

A bearish economic environment coupled with a lack of investor enthusiasm, as well as the decline in support for exploratory work have taken their toll on the junior miner scene.

Since 2012 there has been a steady decline in exploration drilling and budgets.

Mineral exploration spending has been falling for longer than this, however, and in terms of metres drilled has returned to levels seen around a decade ago.

The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for Mineral and Petroleum Exploration Australia [March quarter 2014] show a consistent decline in expenditure on mineral exploration.

The figures show there was a 25 per cent decrease in expenditure and a 35 per cent decrease in metres drilled on total deposits,

as lower commodity prices hampered access to the cash needed to undertake exploration projects.

This figure continued the downwards trajectory with data released in September showing seasonally adjusted spending for the June quarter was down 7.5 per cent to $444 million.

Spending has not tracked so low since December 2006.

The trend estimates for metres drilled fell 4.9 per cent in the June quarter 2014, and the current quarter estimate is 19.5 per cent lower than the June quarter 2013 estimate.

The seasonally adjusted estimate for metres drilled fell 1.4 per cent in the June quarter 2014.

Unfortunately it is the juniors who are bearing much of the brunt of these continued slumps.

According to Grant Thornton’s latest junior mining and exploration (JUMEX) report, the situation is not likely to change soon.

Grant Thornton Australia’s national head of energy and resources Simon Gray explained:

“FY14 was yet another tough year for JUMEX companies, with extremely tight capital markets, volatile commodity prices and tumbling share prices.”

“The duration and extent of these conditions has wide ranging implications for companies and the industry as a whole.

“At the company level, management remains heavily focused on financing considerations, taking their time and attention away from value adding operational and strategic development opportunities. Costs are cut to the bone.

“This is compounded by a lack of investor interest.

“Exploration companies are finding equity finance almost impossible to access as is reflected by the small number of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) for mining and exploration companies.

“At an industry level, the severe decline in exploration activities has far reaching impacts on future discoveries and significantly reduced spending by JUMEX companies which continue to have a major impact on the

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BREAKING POINT

According to the Grant Thornton report there were ten major findings uncovered in the recent survey – funding constraints are reaching a crisis point; ongoing commodity price volatility; persistent regulatory challenges; an improved investor interest; the building of a discovery pipeline; capital raising needs; ongoing market constraints; improved M&A outlook: unlikely to see quick improvements; continually depressed employment conditions.

For the third year running the lack of equity capital has been listed as the number one constraint for business.

“As a result of challenging fund raising conditions 60 per cent of respondents [to the Grant Thornton survey] experienced working capital constraints during FY14,” the report explained.

“The implications of this are numerous, including project delays, limitations on exploration activities, reductions in staff numbers

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and salaries, with management taking an extreme focus on cash balances and spend at the expense of value adding activities.”

However there are early signs of improvement with 37 per cent of respondents surveyed seeing investor interest return.

But this is somewhat incapacitated by a difficult capital market, which has seen an increase in the percentage of companies running a low cash balance for the third year in a row.

Approximately 79 per cent of companies that raised funds during this year experienced moderate or significant challenges in doing so, Grant Thornton reported.

The difficulty of the situation has been compounded by the fact 79 per cent of JUMEX companies surveyed anticipating a need to raise funds within 12 months.

But JUMEX companies are already finding this difficult, with around 60 per cent of respondents noting working capital constraints.

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From page 10 outlined their plan to manage these constraints, which have become a trend in the industry.

These include “retrenchments, salary cuts, disposal of non-core assets, existing from joint ventures, sales of assets, office relocation, reduction of out-sourced services, and increasing workload for remaining personnel”.

This planned reduction in manpower is already starting to bite, with overall employment slated to rise 7.2 per cent to November 2018, while mining itself is forecast to decline 4.5 per cent in the same period.

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

However it is not all doom and gloom for juniors.

One respondent to the survey stated “it feels as though we have seen the bottom [of the cycle] but expect recovery in investor sentiment to be gradual and erratic”.

“We are very encouraged to see a range of signs that the bottom of the cycle may have passed,” Gray said.

The repeal of the Mineral Resources Rent Tax and the Carbon Tax “will remove some of the uncertainty prevailing over the industry for the past four years”.

The ongoing issues of comDevelopment Incentive (EDI), This is helping some investor modity prices is already looking EXPLORATION INCENTIVES stating it will aid the recovery brighter, with 72 per cent of those confidence return to the sector.

ARE HELPING JUNIORS TO of the exploration sector.

Association of Mining and Exsurveyed optimistic that the situWEATHER THE STORM “The EDI is the first of its ation will improve, anticipating ploration Companies (AMEC) kind in Australia and is therefore an increase to their commodity chief executive Simon Benniprices A Mof0their 7 1 key 4 _ resource 0 1 2 _over T U R son- has 1 welcomed 2 0 1 4 -the 0 6Fed- 2 4 T 1 6 : 1 3 : 5 5 + 1 0 : 0 0 a starting point, working towards replicating the success of the eral Government’s Exploration the next 12 months.

Canadian flow through shares model,” he said.

Earlier this year, during the 2014 Prospects and Developers Association of Canada conference, juniors were highlighted as still prospective from an

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JUMEX TOP 10 CONCERNS • Funding constructions at crisis point for some • Commodity price volatility • Regulatory challenges persist • Investor interest is starting to improve • Future discovery pipeline • Capital raising needs • Ongoing constraints • M&A outlook is up • Improvements will not be dramatic • Employment conditions remain depressed investment perspective, but that it was unrelated to the metal prices as “investors can no longer expect mining companies to get any significant help from metal prices”.

However, much of it relied on whether the company could make it through the feasibility stage without a cost blow-out; if it approached its deposit in an innovative manner; and if it had more than one strategy in play A at M 1the 1 same 1 4 _time.

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VOLATILE COMMODITY the past, as it will be tempered economics, corporate and comPRICES ARE CONTINUING TO by lower liquidity and a stronger mercial Justin Fabo added that US dollar as the US Federal “commodity markets have entered SHAKE THE JUNIOR MARKET Reserve edges closer to raising the second half of 2014 on a interest rates,” he said. mildly positive note”.

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CUTTING DRILL COSTS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A DRILL CONTROL INTERFACE HAS BOOSTED PRODUCTIVITY AT THE FACE

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lympic Dam is Australia’s largest underground mine site with more than 450 kilometres of underground development, with Boart Longyear providing diamond core drilling services at the site.

Currently operating five LM75 diamond core rigs, it drills more than 55 000 metres a year. Diamond drilling is used to extract cores for analysis of the Olympic Dam ore body geometry and to collect geochemical information that will be used to create block models for planning and extraction of future resources.

Now Boart Longyear has developed and implemented the Drill Control Interface (DCi) to increase the efficiency, productivity and safety of the LM series of underground diamond core drill rigs.

The past introduction of rod handlers to the site reduced drilling contractors’ exposure to the manual handling of rods, leading to a lower incidence of hand injuries, leading it to push for further innovations at the site.

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to also enhance safety for the drilling contractors.

Over a six-month period it used an LM75 drill rig with the DCi to drill a total of 5726 metres using a BQTK size diamond core bit.

This was an increase of 908 metres drilled over the previous six-month average, which resulted in a unit cost improvement of $2.90 per metre average and monthly productivity increase of 13.5 per cent.

With the deepest hole depth of 700 metres drilled on site, the DCi allowed Boart Longyear to continue drilling during crib breaks and shift changeover.

This is possible because the DCi incorporates a PLC system where a supervisor can pre-set parameters for drilling.

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A laser proximity can also shut down the rig when breached – keeping drillers at a safe distance at all times.

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“There are only three plugs to disconnect from the DCi and no hydraulic hoses,” Boart Longyear stated.

The PLC allows one push of a button for unattended drilling.

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Its auto rod feed and pull system also results in less manual handling and a hands-free wireline descent.

The DCi provides real-time key performance data that is recorded, stored and easily downloaded for quick analysis, allowing drillers to make adjustments to the drill rig on the go.

Because the DCi provides significant instrumentation data, a system diagnostic can be run to determine rig performance and operator performance and detect early equipment failure. AM

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ew software launched by Maptek is helping shotfirers to increase their blasting precision and create better consumables tracking habits.

The latest release of Maptek’s BlastLogic Version 2.0 drill and blast accuracy management system is helping miners to reduce operational costs.

“Getting the fundamentals of drill and blast right every time is crucial,” Maptek’s product manager for BlastLogic, Mark Roberts, explained.

“Better blast performance leads to better fragmentation, which in turn leads to easier handling and processing of excavated material.

“Improving fragmentation for example has a direct impact on ‘digability’ and can lead to shovel gains of up to 10 per cent,” he added.

The new software, and the capabilities it creates, also has a number of other positive influences on downstream productivity including explosives loading and blast timing controls.

“BlastLogic Version 2.0 adds tie up tools, blast modelling and inventory management to an already powerful solution for tracking and improving blast performance,” the company stated, adding that “commodity loss can be reduced by as much as 20 per cent when blast techniques and performance are improved”.

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Designed with tie-up tools, users can now quickly create and compare multiple blasting design scenarios, with the modelling software allowing operators to directly target fragmentation, vibration, and overpressure issues, providing blast modelling previews to help determine if the set design will produce the forecast blast outcome.

The added BlastLogic Version 2.0 inventory management is also linked to blast results, with a site catalogue tracking and reconciling explosives received, dispatched, and used.

Additionally this information can then easily be referenced and analysed to improve operational forecasting and cost efficiencies.

“BlastLogic effectively provides a live window to what’s happening in the field,” Roberts stated.

“Immediate access to production data, analysing results in real time and making changes on the fly mean all teams are working in sync.

“Sharing and analysing data instantly at critical stages helps clarify priorities.

BlastLogic puts operations in a prime position to make decisions which ensure they get the best drill and blast performance for their outlay,” he said.

“Only BlastLogic supports blast-byblast analytics, allowing comparison of blasts across the mine to correlate design, execution and results.” AM

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he mining industry they are easy to deploy, reducing is always seeking to training time and also bringing blast better and more electronic accuracy,” DynoNobel global general manager electronics, accurately.

The current trend Pat Nill, said.

“Its electronic accuracy can is towards using electronic detonation systems to in- help deliver such benefits as better advance rates and improved wall which can be customised for crease precision and safety.

DynoNobel, in partnership stability. DriftShot has flexible specific applications, and its with DetNet, has launched a new timing options that assist in pro- blast control unit can control underground electronic initiation viding more consistent fragment- up to 200 detonators per chanblasting system – DriftShot, to ation and reduced overbreak,” nel, while featuring minimal components at the face, using DynoNobel added. achieve just that.

“Customers can achieve a only the electronic DriftShot The DriftShot system is designed to provide ease of use variety of benefits ranging from detonator in the borehole and coupled with accuracy and reli- reduced scaling as well as more two-wire busline.

According to DynoNobel there optimised use of explosive ability. is no timing design input at the According to the company it energy.”

DriftShot allows shotfirers to face, so the loading and hookup provides the shotfirer with precise electronic initiation while at the work remotely through the use process is more user friendly same time keeping the tie-in of coded signal and can work and minimises errors.

The DriftShot Tagger is characteristics of the similar on multiple communication a fully handheld device that backbones.

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data, automatically reading and recording the detonator’s delay period upon hook-up so no programming is required by the blaster.

The tagger identifies and tests each detonator contained in the blast, and features easy to use menus. Safety is also a priority, with all connectors ESF resistant, RF resistant, cable abrasion and cutting resistant, water resistant, and meets CEN TS 13763-27, the European Standards of Compliance for Electronic Detonators.

It has a smart key, and needs passwords and coded signals to fire, ensuring increased safety. AM

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s the mining environment due to their weight, poor ergonomics, and evolves, the shift towards high rate of vibration, cause a number automation and removing of hand and fatigue issues to operators.

The Skorpion overcomes this by the miner from the coalface is becoming more prevalent. “removing the user from danger by This is particularly rele- using a combination of wired and wireless vant for underground mining and drilling, systems that reduce direct exposure to where the risk is increased compared to the noise, terrain, and harmful vibrations of mining”. open cut operations.

The compact drill carrier is designed Especially for hand drilling operations as a vehicle to access uneven terrain and with individuals using jackleg drills.

However a new drill design is aimed at confined mining spaces easily.

It is operated by a single user who taking some of the danger and difficulty out of jackleg drilling, and has been stands on a platform at the rear of the recognised as a finalist in the global machine, traming it to the site.

“The quadruped all-terrain system allows James Dyson design engineering awards.

The project, dubbed Skorpion, is a for optimal mobility over rough terrain compact drill carrier “designed to bridge and optimal stability when the drilling the features and safety of large scale mast is fully extended,” Chylinski said.

“To improve visibly within the typijumbos with the size and versatility of the jackleg drill,” designer Borys Chylinski, cally dark drifts the Skorpion has been an industrial design student at Canada’s equipped with high power, floor to ceiling It is powered by a hybrid air-electric LED light that are designed to illuminate Humber College, explained.

He stated that while jumbos are the entire drilling face as well as the system, and when tramming the in-hub ergonomically designed for operators, surrounding terrain when the unit is motors run off battery power.

In order to drill it must be connected to their size often makes them too large for mobile.

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The business has laid it’s foundations on delivering to the customer, in full and on time, what the customer wants. “Getting things done” is what

Nitro Sibir Australia is all about. Through shorter lead times and innovative products, customer needs will be satisfied.

Another fundamental belief is that safe, simple work will be productive work. The “Polar” range of emulsions is tailor made for specific applications.

Delivered through one of the purpose built delivery systems, either our’s or the customer’s, product will be put into the hole in a safe, reliable and efficient manner.

NSA sets itself apart through innovative design and equipping the user to carry out day to day charging operations themselves, thus putting control of the charging operations back into their hands. Of course, if a total service is required, NSA will provide that as well.

We believe that the current bulk explosive technology should be rolled out to more users, in particular those working in the underground environment.

The blasting results obtained from a fully coupled bulk emulsion product are superior to those obtained from cartridged products, and as such the change to this technology is definitely justified.

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ithout diesel fuel Australia would quickly grind to a halt.

All of its major industries – construction mining, manufacturing, and logistics – require a constant stream of fuel to continue to operate.

It is truly the lifeblood of Australian industry.

However, just as with the human circulatory system, it is important to keep contaminants out of the supply.

If the diesel supply chain becomes contaminated, vital systems down the line will suffer, in this case heavy machinery can be affected.

While fuel delivered to site is held to an exacting standard, some properties of fuel can be affected and degrade over time.

This usually isn’t of great concern in mining as fuel is typically used fairly quickly: The main concern is contaminants.

The two major contaminants that effect fuel are almost unavoidable on the mine site – dirt and water.

Water can get into a mine’s fuel tanks through a number of different ways, such as condensation, during transportation, leakage issues, or handling problems. This can cause injector and pump corrosion, or cause the growth of bacteria in the diesel fuel.

Dirt has a much more pervasive effect on equipment’s engines.

However it is not the large dirt particles that cause the problems, as they typically fall to the bottom of the tank or are strained out by fuel filters.

Microparticles of less than ten microns in size, if they find their way in to diesel fuel, can cause fuel injector blockages and leads to poor combustion in the chamber, causing a negative effect on power, fuel economy, and emissions.

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the bottom line, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

BP has developed a new program designed to help ensure the cleanliness of fuel, and assist miners through training, sampling, and personalised service on best practice fuel management.

The program, dubbed Fuel Integrity and Technology (FIT), focuses on five key aspects – Clean Fuels; Fuel Training; Advanced Fuels; Fuel Management; and Fuel Technology, and helps operators avoid the problems of contaminated or poor quality fuel.

The key to this has been its continued investment in the BP Global Technology Centre which works with a multitude of OEMs on engine development and testing, according to BP Australia’s head of mining Stuart Anderson.

“An even bigger example is BP’s new diesel product [FIT] which has been proven to deliver over 4 per cent fuel efficiency in the mining environment,” he said.

“When you run the numbers, the savings are enormous. As we know, the new mining-maths is about cost per tonne and this will be a big contributor to this objective.

“But it’s not just fuel, BP is also working on new Castrol lubricant packages for the mining sector that will improve fuel efficiency taking the learnings from diesel passenger car development,” he said.

“The haul cycle or excavator work routine involves periods of high and low workload and understanding this can unlock opportunities for different additive packs or viscometrics that can significantly impact power transmission and hence fuel efficiency.”

The FIT program is supported by an innovative web portal that is tailored to operators’ needs and is a “repository for site and fuel sampling reports as well as BP’s new online fuels training modules,” the company added. AM

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A TITAN OF INDUSTRY A NEW PAYLOAD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM IS PROVIDING OPERATORS PRECISE LOAD CONTROL

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he use of data collection and analysis tools is a key technological trend in the mining industry for finding new ways to improve productivity.

New leaps forward in programming have allowed developers to create systems for collecting information that make it easier to present huge amounts of data in the form of meaningful statistics and visual aids.

Although it’s already been released for over a year, the Titan 3330 Production Monitor from LC Products is still a new concept, and is now more important than ever in an economic climate in which we shave down the costs and strive for even marginal increases in production output.

Titan 3330 is a hydraulic excavator and shovel production monitoring and logging system, which presents data in easily readable, statistical and graphic forms, both to the operator and to onsite control rooms. The key to the technology lies in showing the plant operator, whether they’re driving an excavator or shovel, precisely inEthe A M 1 how 1 1 4much _ 0 0payload 0 _ M Iis N bucket at any one time.

Using a graphic interface in the cabin, the operator can see how many tonnes of material they are dumping into the truck, and how much they need to finish the load.

Until now the payload has only been measurable in the dump truck, but the Titan system is able to weigh the material far more accurately in the bucket, which gives operators the information as they work, and completely prevents unnecessary overloading which would result in the truck having to be dumped and refilled.

The system, when monitored by the operator correctly, can completely eliminate truckloads overfilled to 120 per cent, and reduces the number of 110 per cent overfills.

Plant installed with the Titan system can have up to 95 per cent of truck loads weighed with accuracy within 3 per cent of the actual payload weight.

Results of studies by LC Products have shown a productivity gain of 7 per cent over 40 truckloads, and average gains of 4 1per 2cent 0 1over 4 - a1 full 0 - shift, 2 4 Tor0 around 9 : 3 9 : 120 truckloads.

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Consisting of pressure sensors attached to the machine hydraulics, the Titan system can be installed during downtime, saving any need for installation to cut into production time.

The retrofit usually takes around three shifts to complete, with costs starting around $150,000 depending on the type of machine. However, LC Products’ main reason for development of the Titan system was to measure fatigue stress on the actual machine.

The pressure sensors can measure the degree of stress place on steel components of an excavator or shovel, and relay that information to the cabin or supervisor’s station in real time. Any differences between driving styles of different operators can be seen represented on a chart, which can alert supervisors to behaviours which will result in more or less maintenance required on the machine.

Even if an operator is achieving faster production, the system can measure if that operator is actually causing more potential damage to the machine, which would result in greater maintenance and downtime costs.

LC Products senior engineer Derek Mulder said the system also has some unintended benefits that have been noticed as the system was tested.

With the addition of DGPS, Titan can measure the exact location of bucket and teeth for each bucket of material.

When this information is plotted 3 dimensionally and compared with the amount of material in each bucketload, it can be used to detect aberrant behaviour by operators which would alert supervisors to a need for retraining. But this same data set can be used to evaluate the results of blasting any particular bench, with a level of detail that was not previously possible.

Until now blasting has been evaluated in terms of the production speed of a given bench, but now the Titan system can measure the difficulty with which material is shovelled, by the shovel load, and plot that information on a 3D graph to show the level of fragmentation in the bench. AM

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A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR AUTOMATION PROJECTS THE CURRENT FOCUS OF ALL DEVELOPING PROJECTS IS EFFICIENCY FROM START TO FINISH. MATT MCDONALD & COLE LATIMER WRITE

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ringing projects in on time, budget, and in the most productive way possible is the aim of all miners, and folding in the latest developments in automation and processing along the way is becoming more and more standard in any project.

However this is difficult due to the rigidity typically faced in implementing automation processes.

Large automation projects traditionally follow a consecutive, inflexible order – step A to Step B, followed by Step C By necessity, project steps are carried out in this one step at a time manner, with each step depending on the completion of the previous one before it can begin.

For the thirty years now, automation projects have been carried out sequentially - from A Mdefinition 1 1 1 4 _to 0design, 0 0 _manufacture, FLI R configuration, testing and installation.

But while this traditional approach has stayed the same, other things have changed, and rapidly so.

“In a world where project costs are going up, it is normal for most large projects to overrun their budgets. No one wants it but it happens. Schedules are being exceeded all the time,” Tony Hains, Operations Manager at Honeywell Process Solutions told Australian Mining at the recent Asia Pacific Honeywell Users Group.

In a competitive world, customers are now demanding a way to deal with these cost overruns.

However new technology has now made it possible meet those demands.

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“The idea of LEAP is really to make sure that the process control portion of the project is helping the customer to start up faster and safer and in a logical manner,” Honeywell Process Solutions director sales – Pacific, Neil Wold.

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From page 24 from the hardware and allows them to be produced in parallel rather than in the traditional sequential order.

This means the hardware and software can be produced at the same time, potentially slashing in half the time needed for construction of automation projects.

According to Hains, for years the company has been changing the way it delivers projects. Honeywell has the tools, the standard build templates and the project management processes. Now they also have the enabling technology to make something like LEAP work.

But this technology itself is built from a number of different innovations from Honeywell.

UNIVERSAL I/O

In 2012, Honeywell introduced Universal I/O modules which allow operators to quickly and remotely configure channels as analogue or digital I/O using the company’s proprietary Universal Channel Technology.

And earlier this year, the company released Universal Cabinets, which incorporate the Universal I/O modules and can be viewed as a standard part.

These cabinets are standardised parts, pre-configured and pre-tested, it provides a full plug and play option for operators.

VIRTUALISATION As Andrew Hird, Honeywell Global Tied in with cloud engineering, Vice President of Sales told Australian virtualisation is a technique whereby Mining “when we get to the end of the operating systems and applications are project, if you want 100 cabinets – 30 separated from physical hardware. It of this combination, 20 of this combina- means that, rather than using many tion – we can ship them basically out servers to run many tasks, you can use of stock, rather than have to design all a single server to run multiple operating this for the customer”. systems and applications.

Additionally it provides more space on “It helps to cut down on server the floor as “there is a massive reduction in infrastructure due to the ability to run the number of cable connections needed, multiple tasks as once, which is especially meaning A M 1 less 1 1cabling 4 _ 0 needed 0 0 _ Sand M Ain turn 1 important 2 0 1 4when - 0 9dealing - 3 0 with T 1 5locations : 1 9 : 0 cutting the potential for risk”. where space is at a premium.”

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It means that plant hardware is greatly reduced and process control systems can be made more reliable.

CLOUD ENGINEERING

While the Cloud has received some bad press lately Honeywell endeavoured to point out that LEAP uses its own Honeywell Cloud, not the iCloud from which data seems to sometimes fall into the wrong hands.

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From page 26 geographically, allowing multiple engineers from different locations to work on projects together without having to gather in a central location.

This is a an enormous support for many mining projects, as the remote nature of a lot of operations can cause huge costs in simply getting the skilled engineers to site to develop the project.

Added to this are a number of built in redundancies which can help to avoid single point of failures that may endanger entire projects.

In addition, it means that customers use the supplier’s physical infrastructure during the project engineering process, and develop this process infrastructure via virtualisation.

This means there is no need for them to purchase hardware until the project is near completion. When they do purchase PLUG AND PLAY MODULES ARE that equipment it is the latest equipment POTENTIAL BENEFITS available, not what was the latest when the By separating physical from functional ALLOWING FOR SCALABILITY project began two or three years before. design, the LEAP methodology breaks the “Another benefit is that it provides traditional sequential order of projects. It for the option of late changes in the allows parallel workflows, applies standprocess design,” Hird added. ardised designs, and enables engineering “So by using LEAP operators can to be done from anywhere in the world. reconfigure on the run, allowing them to It can save money. According to a make changes easily without there being hypothetical study by Honeywell, it flow on effects to the physical infrastructure. can cut automation CAPEX costs by up “This also reduces the potential for to 30 per cent and increase schedule error due rework perT cent.

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thing is that LEAP can help projects start on time. The potential costs of late start up are hard to calculate but very significant.

Hains explained that automation budgets on major budgets now account for just one to three per cent of the total budget.

“So cost itself is not the major risk.

Starting your plant up six months late, losing six months of production is an enormous risk. That’s what all of our customers are trying to eliminate,” he said.

“Operators can now shift what were previously back-end tasks to the front end, as we can execute this via cloud engineering, which has resulted in a completely different design and installation process and timeline, shifting the goalposts.”

Haines added that where LEAP adds value is in the ability to “keep the project off the critical path and have the While LEAP came about as a result of customer demand, it isn’t for everyone. As Hird explained, there are lot of conservative companies out there who like to tread cautiously. However, Honeywell has been using all the elements of LEAP for some time already. The only difference is that they now offer it as a package.

If they wish, customers can stick to the traditional method or pick the elements of LEAP that suit them. AM Australian Mining attended the Honeywell Users Group (HUG) as a guest of Honeywell.

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PROSPECT AWARDS WINNERS

THE 11TH ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN MINING PROSPECT AWARDS AN INSIGHT INTO THIS YEAR’S WINNERS

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ast month the mining industr y came together to celebrate, recognise, and reward excellence and innovation in the mining industry Now more than a decade old, the awards ran across 15 categories, and included the Peoples’ Choice award, which is now running for its second year.

Despite a slow year for the industry as far as commodity prices go, more than 250 industry leaders gathered to show recognition for the winners, picked from more than 100 nominations across the categories.

It was doubly special as the event was the eleventh for Australian Mining, highlighting our team celebrating high achievers in the industry for over a decade now.

Held for the first time at Dockside at Pyrmont, the crowd watched as the finalists were read out across 15 categories; cheering as the winners were announced.

Australian Mining editor Cole Latimer opened the night, recognising that although there have been a number of reasons to consider 2014 a lesser year in mining, that we in the industry ought to celebrate having weathered the storm, and take the time to recognise those who have put their best efforts into the industry under adverse economic conditions.

MC Shane Jacobson, better known for his roles as a presenter on Top Gear Australia, and as a salt-of the-earth plumber in the popular film Kenny, kept the audience entertained with off-the-cuff humour, as well as showing his heartfelt appreciation for the contribution that people in the mining industry make to everyday life, and for their down-to-earth ways in Australian society.

The winner of this year’s

THE EVENT WAS HELD IN DARLING HARBOUR

WINNERS CELEBRATED AS THEY TOOK HOME THE AWARDS

People’s Choice awards, Miner’s Promise chief executive Cassandra White, was a clear favourite taking a large chunk of more than 6000 votes sent in.

While the night saw a small speed bump following protestors taking the stage during the Excellence in Environmental Management award, decrying coal, the night progressed onwards from there without any more distractions.

So who won the big awards?

Read on, and see who took home the gongs. AM

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PROSPECT AWARDS WINNERS

MINE OF THE YEAR

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TAKING OUT THIS YEAR’S MINE OF THE YEAR AWARD IS PEABODY’S MILLENNIUM COAL MINE

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he coal mining industry is currently undergoing one of its most difficult periods in a number of years.

The price has been falling, costs have been rising, and many mines are cutting back their workforce as they attempt to deal with the current economic situation.

However, not every mine let itself fall into these same dire economic straits, with some changing the way in which they operate, how they mine, process, and also how they address safety one site.

Peabody Energy’s Millennium coal mine has bucked the trend, and for that it has won not only Coal Mine of the Year, but also the Australian Mine of the Year award.

In 2013, the Millennium mine achieved record clean coal production and sales of 3.4 million tonnes, had a total cost reduction of 20 per cent

planning, mining method, pit setup, organisational culture and fleet configuration which included the introduction of an electric shovel which had not been used at the site before.

The mine had previously sued conventional truck and excavator mining methods before the change in operators.

It also found efficiency benefits by teaming up BHP Mitsui’s Poitrel project, where the companies have agreed to share coal infrastructure with a total annual product capacity of 6 million metric tonnes.

Peabody says Millennium has implemented an innovative approach to extracting its coal by using multiple mining methods across the mine based on the geology, pit conditions, and cost effectiveness.

It decided to implement a combination of strip mining, terrace mining, and dozer push is utilised at the site, resulting in the productivity benefits.

and reached over one million man hours without a lost time injury.

The mine achieved these milestones all whilst transitioning from a contractor-run mine to an owner-operator model.

Peabody attributes its success to improvements in mine

A MORE STREAMLINED PRODUCTION MODEL AIDED THE COAL OPERATION

An electric rope shovel was also introduced which has been set up to maximise overburden and increase overall productivity at the Millennium mine.

The mine also created a streamlined production model where better planning of dumping and efficient sequencing of mining blocks has encouraged high fleet productivity.

Additionally, the redesign of haul roads and introduction of real-time equipment health monitoring has improved the availability and reliability of equipment fleet.

It has also increased the feed to the coal washing plant through short interval controls and operational focus which greatly contributed to the record of the amount of clean coal production in 2013.

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success and is demonstrated through the mine’s focus on a positive attitude and behaviour towards safe production, operational efficiency, value stream-based decisions, personal accountability, and performancebased recognition.

The judges said Millennium was a great example of a stepchange that produced positive outcomes as innovation and efficiency initiatives were put into day-to-day practice.

“In the current coal market, it’s important for miners to review their operations and identify where changes can be made that will help to improve efficiencies,” one judge said.

“But this is only half the battle.

Implementation of changes and the resulting successes are often hard-fought and Peabody should be congratulated for these great results.”

Peabody Energy’s Millennium coal mine is located in Queensland’s Bowen Basin and produces coking and PCI coal for export to Japan, Korea, China and India.

Operations at Millennium began in 2006, and the mine employs 475 people.

In 2011 the mine embarked on an expansion project which increased will increase the mine life by approximately 16 years and ROM coal production to 5.5 million tonnes.

The expansion footprint covers an area of 966 hectares and will see Millennium mine in two new lease areas.

It will mean the mine can operate two pits at one time to reach the desired production level.

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THE LARGEST GOLD DISCOVERY IN YEARS, THE TROPICANA MINE, HAS WON THIS YEAR’S HARD ROCK MINE AWARD

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old miner AngloGold Ashanti produced first gold from its new, renowned Tropicana joint venture project ahead of schedule and on budget and for this has been won the Hard Rock Mine of the Year award.

The mine will have a nameplate processing capacity of 5.5 million ounces per annum over its current ten year life and is expected to produce up to 4.7 - 4.9 million ounces during its first three years of operation.

The increased early years of operation reflects the strategy of processing higher grade ore during the project payback period.

It is estimated cash costs for Tropicana will be between $590 and $630 per ounce.

Located 300 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie, the operation was originally forecast to begin production in December last year, but commissioning was moved

forward and first gold was poured in September 2013.

Despite moving ahead of schedule the estimated capital expenditure for the project is unchanged at between $820 and $845 million.

Tropicana’s production for the second quarter of 2014 was 93,000oz at a total cash cost $498/oz, in line with budget.

The processing plant reached nameplate throughput capacity in the March quarter and this rate was maintained in the June quarter.

Tropicana has been on the radar of many analysts for some time now after the joint venture partners, Anglo gold and Independence Group, announced that they had upped the total estimated resource to 7.89 million ounces of gold.

It is the first greenfields gold discovery to be brought into production in Australia for

IT ENTERED INTO PRODUCTION MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE

more than a decade.

AngloGold Ashanti says innovation has been incorporated into the design of Tropicana’s mining and processing systems, from the start of exploration through to environmental management and closure planning.

Open pit mining utilises conventional drill and blast

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of five kilometres and a width of 1.2 km. The life of mine stripping ratio will be 5.5:1.

“To pour gold ahead of schedule and within budget is a rare feat in this industry and it’s a significant milestone for us and Independence Group, our partner,” Graham Ehm, AngloGold Ashanti’s executive vice president Australia, Group Planning and Technical, said.

“We’ve been able to incorporate innovation into our approach to everything from environmental management to the design of our mining systems and the processing plant. We have also engaged with the local community to provide employment as well as opportunities for local businesses, with contracts worth more than $30 million per annum awarded to Aboriginal businesses.”

The company said it will now target finding additional mineralisation close to the plant, while testing the promising targets through its joint venture tenement.

The joint venture now holds approximately 10,500 square kilometres of tenements in what is recognised as a new gold province.

“What we’ve found and now built, is a tier-one asset which we believe only scratches the surface of a new gold district,” AngloGold Ashanti chief Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan said.

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COAL MINE OF THE YEAR

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FOR ACHIEVING NEW RECORD PRODUCTION LEVELS AND COST REDUCTIONS PEABODY’S MILLENNIUM MINE HAS WON COAL MINE OF THE YEAR

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INNOVATIVE MINING SOLUTION

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FOR MAKING DRILLING MORE PRODUCTIVE THE COLUMBUS GROUP HAVE WON THE INNOVATIVE MINING SOLUTION AWARD

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hen it comes to innovation in the mining industry, it’s very hard to go past a revolutionary new development in drilling, which is why Columbus Group Design have won the 2014 Prospect Award for Innovation.

Their 3 dimensional ‘Down-the-hole’ drilling system brings a number of new tricks to the driller’s kitbag, and will no doubt become a vital ingredient in Australian exploration, mine development, and production.

Rather than conventional boring or hammer drilling which uses a drill bit, 3D ‘Down-the-hole’ drilling uses a high pressure water cutting tool, digitally controlled to direct jets of water vertically and horizontally.

With a series of jets in the cutting head that can be switched on or off by an on-board connection to ‘Internet of Everything’ controls, it is possible to drill out three-dimensional cavities of different shapes, or hole profiles, including spherical for increased strength rock-

hydraulic hammer impacts on drilling equipment.

In the expanding world of the ‘internet of everything’, the 3D down-the-hole technology moves the drilling management, water valving and local sensing to the scene of the action for precision and flexibility, together with a high degree of redundancy for reliability and extended uninterrupted drilling performance.

There are sensors on the drilling head tool to ensure that the 3D profile being cut is being shaped to the pre-set required profile.

To achieve the ‘captured ball-like’ cavity feature within a rock formation, as well as all 12 sets of three cutting jets being used to define the 3D shape, a shaking motion of up to 30 degrees of rotation is also introduced with the dual hole packer set, so wiping the surface being cut away to form the ‘ball’ has a total 360 degree of impacting cutting action and cavitation.

The control of the 21 jet cutting head also allows the hole reference and direction to be assisted in changing, so the guidance reference hole can actually be driven

bolting, or star shaped for greater explosive fracturing control in blasting operations.

One of the main benefits of high pressure water drilling is the absence of dust and less

HIGH PRESSURE WATER IS USED TO PRESET SHAPES IN THE DRILL HOLES

around corners, if required.

Columbus Group Design has said that while it could be possible to also add gold assaying sensors to the drilling head, it is also possible to use above the ground assaying systems, and link the results with particular cutting details from the accelerometer data, the knowledge of which jet sets are in use, and the transport time to extract the material from the drilling head operations to the assaying point.

With a degree of benchmarking and local knowledge of typical gold seam patterns in 3D, then the ability of the 3D ‘downthe-hole’ high pressure water drilling to ‘chase’ and extract gold from even small and thin seams may become a commercially viable,

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particularly in an automated environment, using particular aspects of the in-house optimising software.

The new technology could also be used to enhance the application of horizontal mining techniques With more tunnelling being used to create rail commuter services in cities, the application of horizontal mining technologies can allow more efficient tunnel profiles.

The down-the-hole cutting head, under software control, can shape the stope as wanted.

The slurry coming from the cutting action can be easily pumped away without the need for conveyors.

Further, the slurry can be combined on site with cements and fibre reinforcing to complete the permanent structures.

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EXCELLENCE IN MINE SAFETY, OH&S

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FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MORE SUSTAINABLE UNDERGROUND TOILET, MINEARC HAS WON THE SAFETY IN MINING AWARD

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ineArc Systems have developed a new toilet system aimed at underground operations, and shown they are the deserving recipients of the Prospect Award for Excellence in Mine Safety and OH&S. The EnviroLAV transportable toilet system is really two innovations in one product.

Firstly, the structural design of this portable toilet is extremely practical for underground use, reducing the footprint of multiple toilet blocks.

The EnviroLAV incorporates suitable lifting points for forklifts, to make the system easier to move around underground, it is also constructed from hardwearing materials that can stand up to the punishment of underground transport.

The system is designed to minimise required movements and the time taken for maintenance.

MineArc pointed out that most transportable toilets need to be brought to the surface to be emptied, which consumes manpower, machines and time.

However, the EnviroLAV is designed specifically so that it can be emptied underground, in a fraction of the time, which results in significant cost savings over the service life of the unit.

The new ablutions unit is the brainchild of MineARC director and chief engineer Geoff Whittaker, who, when visiting mines, noticed there were often inadequate facilities for ablutions in underground mines. In underground mining real estate is always in demand and the need for space can often override the need for adequate facilities for the miners.

Drawing on existing biological technologies currently used in two different forms of waste management, Whittaker devised a system that utilises both aerobic and anaerobic reactions to break down and treat the waste.

The major environmental innovation of the EnviroLAV is the unique EnviroZYME solution developed by MineArc. Compressed air is diverted

THE SYSTEM IS FORKLIFT TRANSPORTABLE

through a series of aeration bars covering the surface area of the waste tank, allowing the air bubbles to pass up through the waste, breaking it down. The filters continuously macerate the waste until only microscopic particles remain in the water.

MineARC’s unique EnviroZYME solution contains bacteria and powerful enzymes that are highly effective at accelerating waste breakdown and has been specially formulated to also act as a powerful odour suppressor. Non-toxic and safe for the environment, the waste is reduced to fine carbonaceous particles whilst the water is evaporated off via the external air vent, further minimising emptying requirements, and reducing environmental impact.

While other toilets on the market involve regular handling

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of waste (some as much as once a week), the efficient waste treatment system of the EnviroLAV means the amount of contact between employees and waste matter is vastly reduced; resulting in a safer and more hygienic working environment and negating the need for extra precautionary measures such as vaccines.

This new environmentally friendly innovation means that the EnviroLAV requires less maintenance than any other portable toilet on the Australian market.

Mounted atop a 1000L capacity waste tank, as mentioned, it requires emptying just once every 18-24 months.

A simple routine check is recommended to ensure the system is stocked and operating smoothly and a full service by a qualified technician is required just annually.

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EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID SYSTEMS HAS WON THE EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AWARD FOR ITS INNOVATIVE CLEANING SYSTEM

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mplementing environmentally protective systems within a business is a challenge at the best of times, but the biggest success comes when there are financial savings coupled with the new system.

Environmental Fluid Systems (EFS) are an Australian company that have done just that.

EFS was initially approached

by Fortescue Metals Group to help solve worker health issues related to the toxicity of cleaning chemicals used to wash down locomotives, carriages and rail equipment.

The degreaser in use, which aided the removal of dust and oils from the FMG trains was having a disastrous effect on FMG’s wastewater quality.

hundreds of thousands of dollars in disposal costs.

The design brief required EFS to devise a cleaner system that would be less toxic to employees in direct contact with the cleaning process.

EFS met the challenge by removing conventional degreaser from the work process, which not only made a safer work environment, but in turn created a more environmentally sound system for managing wastewater from their locomotive cleaning operations. The end result was a system that actually saved FMG money in waste water disposal costs, an added bonus to the requirements laid down by FMG. In practice, FMG’s locomotives have always required

Aside from presenting a toxic environment for workers involved in the cleaning process, the quality of the wastewater meant that it was costing the company

THE WASHDOWN BAYS SAW WORKERS EXPOSED TO HARMFUL CHEMICALS

regular cleaning to remove the thick layers of Pilbara dust, which becomes mixed with fuel, oils and other hydrocarbons.

To remove this kind of polluted dirt effectively FMG needed to use a powerful degreasing surfactant, applied with high pressure cleaners for labour efficiency.

The end result was a wastewater that was emulsified with hydrocarbons and degreaser; a toxic emulsion that could not be decontaminated with a gravity oil-water separator.

The toxic wastewater had to be stored, presenting the constant risk of accidental

spillage in the event of equipment failure.

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WHAT THE JUDGES SAID It is so simple and effective. EFS have made a significant contribution. clean, placing further strain on environment and business costs. The key ingredient to this new, non-toxic system was the replacement of conventional degreaser with the EFS product ‘triple7 Heavy Duty’, a bio-based , colloidal surfactant, which was combined with a range of other non-toxic ingredients designed for optimal wastewater quality.

Two main improvements were effected through the replacement of degreaser with triple7 Heavy Duty.

First, the new cleaner is a “quick break” surfactant which can lift oil, grease and hydrocarbon soils from surfaces without forming a permanent emulsion.

Once rinsed away with a high pressure cleaner, the degreaser releases from the oil, allowing the water to be separated out in an oil-water gravity separator.

The second improvement was in the function of triple7 Heavy Duty as a degreaser, whereby mixing with water activates an electrochemical structure called a “micelle”.

Micelles energetically lift soils from surfaces with as much, if not more power than caustics, metasillicates and other salt-based cleaners.

For these improvements, no work practices were changed, excluding the use of a different cleaning product. Since the change of chemicals there have been no incidences of exposure to chemicals in the cleaning process.

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CONTRIBUTION TO MINING FOR DECADES OF SERVICE TO THE MINING INDUSTRY, NORMAN MOORE HAS WON THE CONTRIBUTION TO MINING AWARD

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The fund insures the State the newly appointed minister he winner of the against the risk of having for mines and petroleum to Prospect Award to pay for rehabilitation demand an urgent review into for Contribution in the event of business safety regulation, culture and to Mining is failure and default by mining practices within the State’s former WA mines companies. The fund was mining operations. minister, the carefully designed to minimise This review was carried out Honourable Norman Moore. increases in cost to miners over the following twelve Moore is now the chairman and has been embraced by months, and resulted in of strategic communications the industry. two key recommendations: firm Cannings Purple, which Early in his career as mines for cost-recovery regimes provides advice and public minister Moore witnessed that would collect funds relations services to resource what he regarded to be a from mining companies to sector clients. fragmented and uncoordiMoore was a WA parliamentar- increase the number of mine nated approach to minerals safety inspectors, and for ian for 36 years, who started research in WA, and saw a implementation of “safety life as a Kalgoorlie local, and need for the development case” regimes at individual worked as a school principle MOORE HAS SUPPORTED of legislation to establish an mines that would involve all before his move into politics. institute which would work staff on site to improve the A NUMBER OF MAJOR During the eight years he closely with the WA industry culture of safety. served as the WA mines and REFORMS IN THE MINING to identify the key areas of With legislation passing petroleum minister, Moore INDUSTRY research required. parliament in late 2009, the was the driving force behind The focus of the institute following two years did not a number of reforms in the would be directed by a see a single fatality in the mining industry, in particular research priority plan that mining industry in WA. with regard to mine safety, would prioritise the medium Moore also introduced legislaenvironmental bonds for to long term knowledge and tion to establish the Mining rehabilitation, and minerals research.

A M 1 1In12008 4 _ 0a spate 0 0 _ S C H Rehabilitation 2 1 2Fund 0 1 through 4 - 1 0 - 1 7technology T 1 0 : 1needs 1 : 4of5the + 1 1 : 0 0 State’s minerals industry. the WA Parliament. of mining fatalities prompted

Moore introduced the legislation to Parliament and advocated for its passage. His vision finally came to fruition in late 2013 with the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia Act 2013 receiving royal assent and allowing the establishment of the Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia. The institute is already attracting investment.

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MINERALS PROCESSING OF THE YEAR

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FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LESS HAZARDOUS WAYS TO PROCESS GOLD THE CSIRO HAS WON THE MINERALS PROCESSING OF THE YEAR AWARD

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or innovative research into using more environment ally friendly methods to process and extract gold in more sustainable ways, the CSIRO has won the Minerals Processing of the Year award. The research comes at a time when gold is coming off its historical price highs and beginning a fast paced decline, with the value of the metal forecast to only dip further.

Many are predicting that if the industry doesn’t utilise technology as best it can then many in the sector will be hard pressed to survive through this current trough of high cost extraction for relatively low returns.

One of the major areas in which operators can not only become more efficient, but also cut energy and production costs is in the processing of the gold.

additional costs, to operating.

In this climate the industry also now has to treat more complex ores as the easier to process gold ores are now all mined. Many of these complex ores contain high levels of soluble copper, which consume the cyanide used to process the gold requiring larger amounts of the toxic chemical which increases the environmental risk. Scientists at the CSIRO, and other facilities, have been researching different methods, such as thiosulfate to process and recover gold.

The scientists, expanding on work done earlier this century, have used thiosulfate and bromide to leach the gold in a similar way to cyanide Speaking to Paul Breuer at the CSIRO, he told Australian Mining that research is currently developing gold

Unlike coal processing, gold processing currently involves the use of environmentally hazardous cyanide, which adds a raft of legal and regulatory burdens, as well as

THE PROCESS SEEKS TO REPLACE CYANIDE IN GOLD PROCESSING SYSTEMS

processes using thiosulfate as an alternative lixiviant to cyanide and have made some major breakthroughs.

“Gold only forms complexes with certain agents, and thiosulfate is one of the best lixiviants apart from cyanide,” he explained.

“While thiosulfate has been investigated as a potential alternative for decades, having first been looked at for gold processing back in the 1970s, it has challenges in terms of thiosulfate consumption and recovery of the gold thiosulfate complex.

“The gold thiosulfate complex cannot be recovered using carbon, which however is advantageous in treating carbonaceous containing gold ores,” he said.

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WHAT THE JUDGES SAID This technology, while still in what could be considered its early stages, show promise for an industry looking to be more environmentally responsible and sustainable.

The CSIRO has developed an elution process for removing gold from strong base ion exchange resin used to recover gold thiosulfates, with Breuer explaining that prior to the development there remained the challenge of effectively getting the gold thiosulfate off the resin.

“The breakthrough was the use of sulfite in the solution used to recover remove the gold thiosulfate from the resin, which has now opened up a new area of recovery potential applications of thiosulfate with ion exchange resin for gold recovery.”

Thiosulfate was chosen for in-situ or in-place leaching of gold as it is more environmentally friendly than cyanide, however its stability and rate of gold recovery is typically not as good as cyanide.

But “when it is used with copper-ammonia as an oxidant for treating gravity concentrates, the gold leach rate can be higher than cyanide, though thiosulfate consumption in the process can also be high,” Breuer explained.

However he stated that for the time being the development is fairly ‘niche focused’.

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CONTRACTOR OF THE YEAR

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FOR ITS OVERPERFORMANCE IN ACHIEVING DECLINE DEVELOPMENT PYBAR HAS WON THE CONTRACTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD

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YBAR Mining Services Pty Ltd (PYBAR) is a nationwide provider of mining ser vices with core competencies in metalliferous underground hard rock mining.

At Aurelia Metal’s Hera goldcopper mine in New South Wales, PYBAR is contracted for all primary construction works and commenced the project in January 2013.

Using a standard mining fleet, the company has achieved amazing results in an application requiring in-cycle fibrecrete and dual rock-bolt ground support.

PYBAR said decline development is some months ahead of schedule and on-budget.

Over a six month period to December 2013, decline advance rates at the project averaged 6.3 metres per day (almost one vertical metre per day) with a single jumbo, leading Aurelia to report on PYBAR’s “over-performance”

in the rate of development.

Since January 2014, PYBAR has continued with one jumbo and achieved an average of 290 metres per month, including three months of

performance greater than 320 metres in an environment of a restricted number of available headings.

PYBAR said a culture of efficiency and productivity improvement has allowed it to achieve these results in single heading tunnel development.

Past approaches to speeding up mine tunnel construction rates in Australia have relied on combinations of expensive specialised high powered automated face drilling jumbos typically used in civil construction projects in Europe drilling long rounds (~6.5m) and other specialised technology. There have been some notable successes with uplifts in single heading advance rates of 40-70 per cent being recorded over standard methods with the same mining crews.

However, PYBAR said none of these attempts have resulted in lasting implementation of the technology and most of this specialised equipment has been decommissioned.

NEW APPROACHES TO DRILLING INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY ON SITE

“Using a standard fleet to achieve the rapid development rates that we have enables in-house equipment maintenance, capital cost reduction, flexibility and post-project disposal value,” the company said.

PYBAR said it achieved these rates by reinstating some of the traditional humanistic management approaches but applying them to modern mining applications.

These approaches included motivating small teams of multi-skilled operators, visible leadership at the shop floor

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INCREASES OF UP TO 70% OVER PREVIOUS METHODS HAVE BEEN RECORDED

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID The judges said PYBAR creates value and success for its clients at a time when results are more important than ever.

“The doing more for less philosophy is becoming more important to deliver, and PYBAR has demonstrated what can be achieved when this is implemented safely and effectively.” providing only important information to the right people at the right time. PYBAR said the approach relied on mutual respect between work crews, crew members, site management and the client in developing and aligning common project goals, allowing issues and opportunities to become visible across the entire project allowing for better understanding and continuous improvement.

Clear and concise communication between all created an environment conducive to PYBAR’s motto of “do it right – do it once”.

“We proved that there is room to reset benchmarks of performance and deliver step changes in value for the mining industry at large by investing nothing more than a culture of efficiency and productivity improvement – ‘doing more with less’,” PYBAR said.

“In these mines short rounds are beneficial in following variable ore bodies and minimising setups at the working face.”

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MANAGER OF THE YEAR

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FOR HER WORK AS A FRONTLINE LEADER, JOANNE CORLISS HAS WON THE MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

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he 2014 Prospect Award for Manager of the Year has gone to Joanne Corliss, a mine monitoring supervisor (MMS) at the Bengalla Coal mine, near Muswellbrook.

Rio Tinto Coal has been especially proud of Corliss, with the company nominating her for a Prospect Award on the merits of her achievements as one of only two female frontline supervisors at Bengalla.

With only 20 per cent female representation in the Bengalla workforce, Corliss has been a role model to other females who want to pursue a career in frontline leadership.

Since Corliss’ appointment to the role, she has mentored another female technician who was recently appointed into the MMS role.

Corliss’ patient and calm

nature makes her a good coach and mentor to other employees and contractors.

Corliss was identified as a talent within the mining department as a mining

technician due to her initiative and drive.

Although Corliss enjoyed operating heavy equipment, her true passion lay in a leadership role where she was able to work in a fast paced, high stress environment, coordinating labour and resources.

She would often spend periods of wet weather or downtime in the MMS office learning the ropes and assisting the supervisors.

Since that time, Corliss has undertaken modular training and supervisor training and was appointed as a full time MMS in 2012.

Corliss has developed strong interpersonal skills since being appointed in the Mine Monitoring Supervisor role.

A mining technician described Jo as “firm but fair and treats everyone consistently”, a manner that has earned her a lot of respect from the crew

CORLISS IS ONE OF ONLY TWO FEMALE FRONTLINE SUPERVISORS AT BENGALLA

and management team.

Corliss has also taken on a mentoring role with new starters on site, in particular mining technicians on the crib relief roster, the majority of whom are female, and she gets enjoyment out of providing technicians with

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day, or finding their role a bit overwhelming.

Bengalla general manager operations Dan Janney said he was very pleased with the way Corliss worked her way up from being a technician in the mine to a key leader in the business.

“Through periods of acting up in the Dispatch Supervisor role, Jo demonstrated a clear ability to understand the Mine Monitoring and Control system and to provide direction to her team in the field,” he said.

“It was not long before Jo was offered a full time role in this leadership position a year and a half ago.

“During this time, Jo has led her team through a challenging transition to a much more focused, efficient and productive operation.

“With her leadership, and in association with her peers, Bengalla has realised a 10 per cent improvement in Utilisation of Availability of the truck fleet over prior years.”

Mining supervisor Richard Darby said Corliss is wellrespected around the site and by her crew.

“She doesn’t shy away from managing difficult situations or holding others accountable even when these situations are confronting,” he said.

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MINING’S WOMAN OF THE YEAR

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FOR HER DEVELOPMENT OF FEMALE FRIENDLY HI-VIS CLOTHING KYM CLARK HAS WON MINING’S WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD

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hilst working as an accountant for BHP, 28-yearold Kym Clark saw there was a gap in the market for women’s workwear and set about ensuring women could be comfortable in PPE. The line, called Kym by She’s Empowered, provides hi-vis everyday safety workwear and maternity uniforms for the growing number of women in the mining and resources industry.

“I could not believe the lack of workwear options for women in mining,” Clark said.

“Until my business was developed, there were no maternity workwear options

for industrial workers. I knew I had the ability and drive to change that.

“Women work in all areas of the industry from administration to underground

and open cut roles, and often work upwards of 50 hours a week. Women deserve to wear a well-fitted uniform just like those in any other industry,” she said.

Anglo American’s Diversity and Inclusion Specialist, Rebecca Capper, said the company was excited to be the first global mining company to source personal protective apparel through She’s Empowered.

“As a company that values diversity and inclusion in our workforce, we are delighted to offer women a choice in workwear that aligns with our safety requirements while keeping them comfortable during their pregnancy,” Capper said.

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stock last November other companies including BHP Billiton, Glencore, and One Steel have demonstrated their support towards the innovative workwear label.

Clark told Australian Mining She’s Empowered is all about giving women a choice so they can be confident and comfortable at work.

“Being comfortable improves working conditions,” she said.

“Mining is a great industry for women; it just needs a little tweak to make it work better for women.”

With this in mind Clark took a proactive approach to create well-fitted shirts in sizes ranging from 6 to 16 and has also designed a double box pleat front in the pregnancy range which fits nicely over a growing baby bump.

The 100 per cent stretch cotton fabric is strong but not harsh, feels comfortable against the skin and allows for the full range of movement.

The entire range is Australian Standard compliant, and even the buttons are enclosed – making ironing much easier.

“Personal protective clothing is part of the industry and having clothing that fits and flatters the female body is vital in helping women feel comfortable and confident in their work environment,” Clark said.

After experiencing such a positive response to the initial She’s Empowered designs Kym recently added two new designs to the collection – work trousers and a new women’s cut hi-vis top.

Testimonials on the She’s Empowered website show how women in the mining industry have taken to the clothing.

“Having been in the mining industry for four years, I was ecstatic to come across comfortable workwear I can wear on site,” one Anglo worker said.

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WHAT THE JUDGES SAID It is great to see Clark help women in the mining sector by fitting them out in clothing that is tailor-made. The judges also commended Clark for the way she marketed and grew her product range in such a short time, stating that the calibre of companies lined up to purchase the workwear was testament to her work.

Empowered range is designed specifically with women in mind, with lightweight fabrics that stretch, darts positioned in the right place and long sleeves that won’t ride up your forearms.

“It’s also great to see they stock a range of sizes that fit women’s shapes generously.

I am a size 14 and find the shirts very accommodating.

Coming to work every day in a well-fitting, comfortable uniform is great, I would recommend She’s Empowered to any woman working in roles that require high vis shirts.”

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EXPLORER OF THE YEAR FOR UNCOVERING AN POTENTIAL EXPANSION TO THE GALILEE BASIN, RESOLVE COAL HAS WON EXPLORER OF THE YEAR

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esolve Coal has won the honour of being named Explorer of the Year in the 2014 Prospect Awards.

Resolve Coal has been developing the Hyde Park Coal Project, which resulted from a target generation exercise that was driven by some simple questions.

The junior explorer recognised an area within the Galilee Basin that may have lower strip ratios, indicated by structural analysis of the eastern margin of the basin.

Total Magnetic Intensity data also pointed to deeply buried granite, a potential source of higher heat flow and possibly higher ranked coal endowment.

Government drilling data from the 1970s and company reportage through the QLD

DNRM on line systems were pivotal in this.

Drilling that was initiated in July 2013 has since turned out some excellent results.

By using a diverse suite of

exploration methods, ranging from kinematic analysis, geological mapping to seismic interpretation, Resolve Coal came to the opinion that the Galilee Basin extended further to the east than was traditionally thought, and in testing this conclusion identified a prime coal exploration target area.

Exploration drilling confirmed this reasoning and a JORC compliant thermal coal recourse of 1.69Bt in the Permian Betts Creek Beds is the result. This discovery is the Hyde Park Coal Project.

Resolve pushed the basin margin substantially to the east, and estimated a JORC (2012) compliant indicated resource of 364Mt, and an inferred resource of 1.30Bt, at raw strip ratios of between 3 and 10.

The coal rank has proven to be higher than other Galilee

THE DISCOVERY MAY HAVE EXTENDED THE KNOWN GALILEE BASIN AREA

projects, resulting in attractive potential revenues from higher energy thermal coal.

Resolve also have a new suite of exploration targets identified along the Galilee Basin’s eastern margin, with the project adding to the growing momentum toward development in one of the world’s premier new energy basins.

Hyde Park Coal Project is distinct from other coal projects in the Galilee basin and elsewhere in Australia through its size, coal rank,

coal quality and potential ease of mining.

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robust returns and low technical risk.

Projections suggest an initial 60+ year open cut mine life at 10 million product tonnes per year.

A memorandum of Understanding has since been signed for 10Mtpa rail and port access at attractive rates, with the project being the closest Galilee Basin coal project to the Abbot Point Coal Terminal.

The Product Strip Ratio is estimated at 1:5 / 1:10, with coal wash yields 80 per cent higher on the initial 30 years of production prior to optimisation.

The product coal quality from the HPCP is among the best in the Galilee Basin.

Coal wash yields of more than 80 per cent have been observed on target bypass seams over initial 30 years of production prior to optimisation: Target product specifications; 5600Kcal/kg (NAR) 11% ash.

Coal quality analysis confirms a high volatile Bituminous B thermal coal using the ASTM coal classification.

There is considerable upside to this resource as approximately 50 per cent of the tenement remains undrilled. This is especially relevant in the north within EPC2050, where Resolve suspects the coal subcrops around the pivot point to the change in strike, from N-S to NW-SE. This is supported by evidence from the drilling program, historic department drilling (Mirtna boreholes), and historic seismic lines that cross the area.

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NATHAN ANDERSON HAS BEEN RECOGNISED FOR THE DEDICATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS CAREER WITH THE YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARD

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or continually striving to further his career in the mining industry through qualifications, Nathan Anderson has won this year’s Young Achiever of the Year award.

After finishing school, Anderson completed an apprenticeship in Light Metal Fabrication and gained a fulltime tradesman role.

While Anderson enjoyed his trade, he felt he needed a career change and gained a warehousing traineeship with

HVTC Hunter and Centennial Coal’s Myuna Colliery.

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completed a rotation for annual leave relief at Centennial’s Angus Place mine.

Anderson is nearing the end of the Certificate 3 Warehousing Operations Traineeship which he commenced during 2013 and was so intent on forging a career in the field that he enrolled at TAFE and completed a Certificate 4 in Purchasing.

This provided Anderson with a better understanding of how the store system works beyond his current role and he hopes to one day grow beyond the position of a store person and become a Purchasing Officer. Anderson managed full time work, fatherhood and footy coaching as well as additional study to increase his chances of achieving his goals in the mining industry.

Anderson has been named one of five finalists for Indigenous Trainee of the Year in the upcoming 2014 NSW & ACT Group Training Association (GTA) Awards.

The young father and footy fanatic is also one of 21 group training apprentices and trainees from around Australia that was invited to attend a Today’s Skills; Tomorrow’s Leaders leadership program ANDERSON HAS ALSO BEEN in Canberra.

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a formal qualification at the same time as earning a regular income.

Anderson’s role as a trainee store person involved learning the trade through close observation of colleagues, working collaboratively in a team environment, taking direction from mentors and leaders, as well as working independently to contribute to the daily operation of the warehouse.

Showing he has become a trusted team member, Anderson has also

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WHAT THE JUDGES SAID Nathan is a great example for young people looking to get into the industry, with his determination and drive showing others what can be achieved. maximise their leadership skills and career development.

“I’d like to promote a positive image for Indigenous men in my community and inspire other young Koori and Murri men to strive for excellence in the workplace,” Anderson said.

Regional Coordinator of HVTC Hunter, Karen Eveleigh, said Anderson had demonstrated an outstanding commitment to his career goals.

“Anderson has received very favourable feedback from all,” Eveleigh said.

“He is a worthy recipient of this award and a future ambassador for the traineeship career pathway and the mining industry.”

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COMMUNITY INTERACTION OF THE YEAR FOR ITS LOCAL VOLUNTEERING PROGRAM, CHINA MOLYBDENUM’S NORTHPARKES MINE HAS WON THE COMMUNITY INTERACTION AWARD

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or the development of its innovative program that has the mine’s workers working directly within the community, China Molybdenum’s Northparkes operation has won the Community Interaction of the Year award.

The Northparkes Volunteer Leave Program, for which it has won the award, began in 2013 and since then has seen almost 130 employees volunteer their time to help a variety of community groups, schools, and organisations across more than 20 different projects.

“Mines are often criticised for taking skills from the local area – this program breaks that myth. We are able to show that mining actually brings skills and through this program we are able to share these skills with the community,” Northparkes said.

“At Northparkes we consider ourselves to be part of the fabric of our community. It is not ‘us’ and ‘them’; we

it decided “we were pulling all of the usual levers available to us in the form of community support – sponsorships, partnerships, scholarships, funding programs, and mentoring – but we wanted to do more”.

The idea for the program was developed after Northparkes’ managing director spoke to the local SES, exploring how the miner could provide assistance.

“Providing timely support to the SES is difficult due to our distance from town, but this conversation was enough for the Northparkes Leadership Team to identify the community’s need and recognise we could help.”

The first project of the program took place in May last year, at the Parkes PCYC, where the mine’s electricians installed lighting throughout the facility, as well as energy efficient lighting over the basketball courts.

PCYC manager Amanda Sutton said the instllation of LED lights in the main hall

believe we are one community and recognise we have an important role to play in this community.”

According to the miner the program was developed after

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has given them an overall saving of around 20 per cent on their power bills, as well as increased safety.

Other skilled volunteering includes business analysts helping the local Chamber of Commerce, IT professionals rebuilding laptops and computers for local community and sporting groups, sales and marketing advice for businesses, and skilled tradesmen providing services.

Since this project began 58 employees have volunteered their time in 2013, and in 2014 a further 70 people also participated in the program.

“We calculated that this represented an investment of approximately $1 million in to the community.

“This program is unique compared to other community programs in that it encourages employees to volunteer within work hours – or outside of work – and offers time in lieu if they give up their own time for a cause.

The miner added that “importantly, volunteering

projects that are identified by the community and our employees need to either complement existing volunteering activities or ideally be quite different”.

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WHAT THE JUDGES SAID It’s great to see a mine operate as part of a community, and support its workers using skills they’ve learned on site in the wider community. Good work Northparkes.

“We appreciate that employees will continue to volunteer, in their own time, to help community projects that they have a personal passion for; we are trying to complement this, not replace existing efforts.

This ensures that wherever possible it is skilled labour and skills that being shared with the community; skills that are unique to Northparkes.”

Speaking on the program, Parkes Shire Council’s mayor Ken Keith said it has had “a wonderful impact as residents not only get to see Northparkes employees in their bright coloured uniforms out doing things in our community, but they’re actually working with other voluntary groups such as Rotary, the SES, councils, and many more”.

“All communities, particularly in regional NSW, rely on volunteerism, to make them work and function, through Northparkes’ involvement with volunteering in our community, they help make our town of Parkes what it is today,” he added.

In May this year the program reached Northparkes’ 20 per cent uptake target for 2014.

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au saw close to 3000 votes, with the competition right down the line until it closed, only days before the awards.

And while Australian Mining believes that every nominee this year is a winner, only one person can take home the gong.

This year’s winner is CEO of Miner’s Promise Cassandra White.

This is not the first time White has appeared in these pages as an award winner, after last year taking out the Rising Star award at Women In Industry for her work in helping to build a support organisation for miners and their families through the not-for-profit organisation Miners’ Promise.

Miners’ Promise was established by those within the sector to provide an independent support agency for the men and women (and their families) employed within the resources industry.

Individuals who have themselves experienced emotional and financial hardship or lost a loved one unexpectedly were the driving force behind establishing the organisation.

The group works to support families in whatever it is they need in times of grief. This includes emotional, financial and/or pastoral support.

This is achieved by travelling to the family’s location; assessing their immediate needs and affecting strategies aimed to support and comfort.

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Using her high-level communication skills, White built the organisation’s network by targeting mining CEOs, HR departments and mine site managers.

She then organised to spend time at various sites to spread the Miners’ Promise message to employees.

Just four months into the role White was confronted with the death of a member based in Newman, and immediately began working with the person’s family.

Over the past three years, White has helped more than 20 families and loved ones affected by a number of circumstances including workplacerelated fatalities, suicides, and homicides.

Whilst Miners’ Promise is a membersbased organisation, White has never base by over 1200 and has also shied away from providing assistance garnered the support of over 70 and advice to the broader industry in companies. pursuit of zero fatalities.

As a breast cancer survivor, White White regularly meets with key personnel from the resources division of said the urge to “give back” through the Department of Mines and Petroleum to not-for-profit sector drove her to join Miners’ Promise. to discuss and review incidents and White said she had plans to take develop strategies on key learnings.

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HAZOP OF MOTORS AND DRIVES THE HAZOP METHODICALLY EXAMINES A PROPOSED DESIGN AND OPERATION TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF CHANGES IN THE DESIGN CONDITIONS AND OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE, WRITES AMIN ALMASI.

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he HAZOP is a structured study technique, which methodically examines a proposed design and operation to assess the effect of changes in the design conditions and operational procedure.

Hazards are the focus of HAZOP studies.

The HAZOP is best suited for assessing hazards in machinery packages, equipment, facilities, and processes. A hazard is a potential source of harm.

Deviations from mandatory design codes or established operational procedures may constitute or produce a hazard. A single hazard could potentially lead to multiple forms of harm.

The HAZOP review is employed to assessing the machinery package design and the operational capability to meet mandatory codes (such as API codes), client specifications and safety standards. This is intended to identify weaknesses in a machinery package or its systems.

Operational and procedural controls are also the focus of a comprehensive HAZOP which would include assessing engineered controls (for example, a package automation), sequences of operations, procedural controls (for instance, human interactions), etc. This should cover evaluations on different operational modes such as start-up, standby, normal operation, unsteady situations, normal shutdown, emergency shutdown, and others.

The HAZOP is intended to be a cross-functional team effort, and relies on specialists and experts from various disciplines with appropriate skills and experiences who display intuition and good judgment.

Experts should be carefully chosen to include those with a broad and current knowledge of deviations for the system or the package under study.

The HAZOP should always be carried out in a climate of positive thinking and frank discussion.

An important factor is defining HAZOP study boundaries and key interfaces as well as key assumptions that the assessment will be performed under.

The HAZOP process systematically questions every part of a package (or a unit) by nodes and lines to establish how deviations from design intents and established operational rules can occur.

The causes and consequences of each deviation are then analyzed using worksheets to determine if they would have an adverse effect upon the safe operation of the process or machinery packages.

In a HAZOP, the identification of deviations from the design codes and operational intents is achieved by using predetermined “guide words” or “key words”.

The role of the “guide word” (or “key word”) is to stimulate imaginative thinking, to focus the study and elicit ideas and discussions.

RISK AND RISK ASSESSMENT

Risk is the combination of the consequence severity or harm that can result from a hazardous event and the probability/likelihood of that event actually occurring.

In other words: Risk = Consequence (severity) × Probability (likelihood) Having identified the potential hazards, measures should be taken to reduce residual risk to the tolerability region (or say within acceptable limits). A process, a package or a plant may have a number of protective layers that work independently of each other.

Examples include mechanical relief devices to protect against overpressure and over-speed protections for some rotating equipment (for instance, steam turbines).

A mixture of quantitative, semi-quantitative and qualitative methods can be used for the risk assessment. The most appropriate method should be selected based on the application.

For most of machinery packages, a semi-quantitative method is the best option.

In IEC-61511 (which is widely employed for machinery packages as well as plants), the risk assessment is known as the SIL (Safety Integrity Level) determination, and the standard also provides a scale. A SIL as defined by IEC-61508 is a discrete level (one out of a possible four) for specifying the target level of safety integrity.

This is given a range from SIL-1 to SIL-4, where the SIL-1 represents the lowest integrity requirement and the SIL-4 the highest integrity requirement.

Each SIL corresponds to a range of numerical target failure measures, known as the “Probability of Failure on Demand” – average (“PFDavg”).

The SIL assignment method that has been usually selected for machinery packages is the LOPA (“Layer of Protection Analysis”) method (a well-known semi-quantitative method). The

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REASONS TO USE ALARMS 1. To cause the operator to take some action (for instance, switch machineries, to avoid a trip, similar).

2. To cause the operator to pay extra attention to an area or a sub-system.

To reduce the number of alarms (to the minimum necessary) following guidelines can be considered: • Duplicated alarms should be eliminated.

• Normal situations or expected events should not be alarmed. The same is true for routine maintenance checks or operator field verifications. Operator actions should also not be alarmed.

• There should not be more than one pre-alarm for each shutdown.

• Usually a changeover from an operating machinery to a standby machinery (such as a standby pump) generated a flurry of alarms, few of which (sometimes just one) were of any value.

• The control logic and machinery condition alarms for each machinery pair can be grouped.

• The trip alarms on items (such as shutdown valves) could usually be replaced by alarms on failure to trip.

LOPA method is a recognized SIL assignment method and complies with the requirements of IEC-61508 and IEC-61511.

This method has been deemed the most appropriate method for the SIL assignment of machinery packages. This method considers all identified “Initiating Events” (IEs) and ensures there is a focus on high severity impact events. This also considers the effectiveness of each “Protection Layer” (PL) and ensures consistent allocation of the “Risk Reduction Factor” (RRF) to each PL.

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The LOPA method is a semiquantitative approach that relies upon a project’s risk acceptance criteria and the development of a set of guidelines that are to be applied consistently throughout the LOPA. In other words, this method can provide the opportunity to use the codes and academic details as well as opinions of subject matter experts and operators with experiences in the packages under study in the form of project’s risk acceptance criteria and other inputs.

This can guarantee a right mixture of academic data (often

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generic) with experiences and knowledge applicable to the machinery packages under review. Risk acceptance criteria are also used to derive target risk frequencies which form the basis for determining the adequacy of risk reduction throughout the LOPA.

HAZOP FOCUSES

The HAZOP review ensures that the level of the integrity of the package is as high as reasonably practicable at all times. In addition this confirms that risks to people on an installation (packages and surrounding facilities) arising from matters of integrity, are kept as low as reasonably practicable.

This can include the design, modifications, operation and maintenance.

In a HAZOP review, a thorough search for deviations is carried out in a systematic manner. All reasonable situations which are expected should be identified and subsequently challenged to determine if they are “credible” and then they are assessed in detail. The HAZOP is a systematic and comprehensive methodology to identify and resolve all important S u m i hazards t o m owith - focus 1 on the two followings:

• Hazards rooted in human operator performance and behaviours play very important roles in packages and plants.

• Hazards that are difficult to detect, analyse, isolate, count, and predict. These hazards might be missed in safety checks during normal design reviews and ordinary safety reviews.

Existing protective devices that prevent or safeguard against the adverse consequences of hazards are considered and actions are raised where the protection is considered inadequate.

These actions could be: 1. To remove the cause 2. To mitigate or eliminate the consequences Where it is not possible to remove the cause, additional safeguarding is required. In such a case, a “Safety Instrumented System” (SIS) can play questions. Often the assumptions a significant role in preventing made about the level of residual or mitigating major hazardous risks should be re-evaluated after accidents. A HAZOP review the HAZOP items closeout.

Residual risks are risks that demands detailed recording and reporting to demonstrate are expected to remain after that the rigor of process has been risk control strategies have been exercised. New risks thoroughly carried out.

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From page 63 fundamental changes and all can be done is add on equipment or an item to control the hazard. To design inherently safer packages or plants it is needed to carry out a HAZOP study much earlier in design than in the past, at the flow-sheet stage and, even earlier, at the conceptual or basic-design stage, when deciding on basic configurations and parameters.

In this regard, it could be recommended to perform two HAZOP reviews, one at the basic-design (preferably before the order of the machinery packages) and another at the detailed-design (for instance, at around 80% of the design progress).

One of the potential problems in machinery packages is the conservatism in this industry.

Design and manufacturing on what is already proven with operating references (what was used in previous similar plants) could bring swifter results with greater confidence than launching into radically new machinery designs that evaluated theoretically to offer inherently safer operation than previous ones.

Generally there is feeling by many plant operators that rotating equipment is unreliable.

The reference checks play an important role in the machinery selection probably more than any other equipment in a plant. The organizations of clients and EPC contractors play also important roles in this regard. Some new machinery designs such as oil-free compressors, hermetically-sealed compressors and others could be slightly cheaper and inherently safer compared to traditional designs.

However, as a proportion of the total capital cost of a project, this saving might be relatively small and safety advances might also not be evaluated significant overall.

Project engineers and business managers are understandably reluctant to use new technologies for a small percentage saving in cost and slightly better theoretical safety in case there are unforeseen difficulties that could prevent or delay the achievement of the design output.

One of the common issues in many plants and machinery packages is the large inventories of hazardous materials. A good question that should always be asked is “should the inventories have to be so large?” Often it would be possible to design machinery packages and plants

that use less hazardous materials (or safer materials instead) or use the hazardous material in a less hazardous form. Such packages or plants are said to be inherently safe as the hazard has been removed (rather than controlled by added-on protective equipment which can fail or can be neglected). The best way of preventing safety issues and risks is to use safer materials instead or so little of the hazardous materials that it hardly matters if they leaked or misused.

Most accidents were said to be due to human error (human failing). However, besides the slips and lapses of attention, some so-called human error (or human failing) are the result of inadequate training or instruction.

This is an important issue for complex and unique machinery packages.

A critical aspect of HAZOP reviews (and particularly multiple HAZOP meetings at the basicdesign, detailed design and final design) is the raise of the profile of safety. This can move the safety higher up the agenda and managers, experts, designers and operators pay more attention to the subject.

ONE OF THE ISSUES OF HAZOP STUDIES IS THAT THEY ARE CARRIED OUT LATE IN DESIGN, WHEN IT IS TOO LATE TO MAKE FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES

OPTIMUM CONFIGURATION OF ALARMS

“Too many alarms” is bad and “too many shutdowns” is disaster.

Humans are not particularly good at vigilance tasks. Human operators do not cope well with alarms.

They suffer from a condition called “cognitive overload”. In simple terms, an operator should not be presented with more information (in this case alarms) than he can process and act upon in the time available.

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In modern plants, when an upset or something more significant does happen, the transition from normal to abnormal can be rapid. The result is many alarms in a short time. As an indication, the sustained rate of about two alarms per minute is as much as a typical operator can handle. The higher the alarm rate, the lower the probability of the operator noticing it and responding effectively.

As the first few alarms sound, the human operator moves quickly from vigilance mode through analysis to action. Once into the action mode, people rarely re-evaluate their initial analysis, even if subsequent information clearly indicates that the initial analysis was wrong.

In other words, once into the action mode, there is a powerful human operator tendency to “confirm”, rather than to falsify hypotheses and re-think about the situation. This bias which can be created by too many alarms could cause operational problems.

Alarms which repeatedly activate then clear can be seriously distracting to the operator, particularly during upset conditions when they can make a significant contribution to alarm floods.

Large proportions (typically more than 60%) of alarms are caused by a small number of alarm points. Repeated alarms are generally caused by faulty instruments, alarm limits set too close to normal operating conditions, the ineffective use of dead-bands, repeat timers and similar mechanisms. The alarm flood is one of the most disturbing situations.

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alarms to occur in the first four minutes following an upset on a complex plant. Alarm rates of one alarm per 3 second are not unusual in an upset. The result is that the operator effectively abandons the alarm system, acknowledging alarms without looking at them. Not only is he likely to miss important information as a result, he may also misinterpret the information.

An important consideration is that the usefulness of alarm is extremely scenario-dependent. In other words, an alarm which, in one scenario, might give useful early indication of an incipient upset can be just one of many consequential alarms in another.

Furthermore, this dependence can often be chaotic, with slight differences in scenario giving rise to differing outcomes with respect to which alarms are useful and which are not.

In a HAZOP or a design safety review, a package or a small section of a plant is studied at a time. The scope of study in each HAZOP usually contains between 30 and 300 of measurement instruments and sensors.

When a team study this small section in isolation, it is easy to conclude that adding a few alarms can make it safer.

However, when the team look at a bigger picture, where the overall operation comprises many such sections, the picture is quite different.

This is an important consideration in any HAZOP. There should be an optimum number of alarms for any package or unit.

Based on experiences, it simply costs less to add an alarm than to discuss whether it is needed or not. In many HAZOP reviews, for any issue the first and simple recommendation has been put an alarm and leave it to operator.

This is a fake solution that has been used for decades.

If an alarm was not selected thoughtfully or not configured properly, it can become a standing or nuisance alarm later, or contribute to any alarm flood.

For any package or unit, a suitable alarm configuration should be selected within the framework of an overall design strategy and operation philosophy which should include a formal set of principles and policies for alarms. In particular, each alarm should require a formal justification and a formally defined operator response. AM

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AUSTRALIA NO.3 IN MINES RESCUE THE UNDERGROUND RESCUE TEAM FROM OAKY CREEK NORTH HAS DONE US PROUD AS THIRD BEST MINES RESCUE TEAM IN THE WORLD.

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nderground coal is undoubtedly one of the most dangerous sectors of the mining industry, one which requires constant vigilance on the part of rescue teams to ensure they are trained, experienced, and ready to go when the alarm sounds.

Accidents happen so quickly, and if someone’s life is hanging in the balance every second counts, which is why underground rescue teams study, train, and take part in competitions to test their levels of skill and knowledge.

Australia has a strong history of sporting competition, but mines rescue is a lesser known game to the public, and game in which one of our teams has shown themselves to stand out from the crowd.

Glencore’s rescue team from Oaky Creek North, Young, AM 0 7 1captained 4 _ 0 0 0by_Jim LA N earned the national title last month

in the 52nd Australian Mines Rescue Competition.

Nine teams were in contention at the 2014 national comp, and in the final scores there was a very narrow spread, only 70 points between the first eight teams.

The Glencore team did have a distinct home ground advantage with the competition held at the Oaky Creek North minesite, however in September they proved themselves a standout performer on the world scene, taking on the rest of the world at the game of underground coal mine rescue in one of the oldest coal mining regions in the world- Poland.

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With a distinct advantage of regular training according to local regulation, it was predictable that the five Polish teams would secure the top five positions, however despite these odds the two Australian teams in attendance 1fared 6 + extremely 1 0 : 0 0well.

Rio Tinto’s Kestrel mine rescue team secured third place in the Simulated Mines Rescue Action exercise, in which teams compete behind closed doors (no spectators allowed) and against the clock to perform a simulated rescue of a worker.

The Kestrel team placed eighth in the overall competition scores, an excellent result achieved despite difficult competition conditions involving language difficulties, unfamiliar technology and challenging chain of command protocols.

Kestrel team captain Derrin Powell said the most difficult thing about the international competition wasn’t physical exhaustion, but psychological stress from dealing with language and communication barriers.

“The laws in Poland are very different to the laws in Australia, which makes it mentally more taxing,” he said.

“We were working through interpreters, and a lot of the flip charts were in English, but the interpretations went a lot smoother than I thought it would.”

Powell noted one of the key differences about the simulated rescue event in Poland, when compared to how competition and real-life rescues are run in Australia, was that decisions cannot be made by the team captain and must be relayed through the Fresh Air Base, or command centre.

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management team at the Oaky Creek Coal for allowing them adequate time off to train for the competitions, including Darren Nichols, Gary Midford and Marc Kirsten, and emergency response co-ordinator Steve Daw. Australian Mining spoke with competition organiser Miroslaw Baginski, who is also the technical and vice CEO of the Central Mines Rescue Station in Poland, about why these competitions are so important to the industry.

Baginski explained that the competition serves to familiarise and integrate teams from around the world, which is important when international support is needed, such as when Poland sent a rescue team to assist with the Collinsville mine disaster in 1997.

“Rescuers must trust each other, and with this trust we have to appreciate the level of training,” Baginski said.

“You can only put trust on the other guy when you know he has been through the correct training.

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The Oaky team had also won the Australian national competition at the Cook Col“The way they do mines liery in 2013. rescue here is very different 2014 team captain Jim Power from how we do it back said the nature of communicahome,” he said. tion difficulties in the Polish Powell said the need to relay competition was a great decisions back to base before learning exercise for the team, taking action slowed the one which bonded the team process of rescue. members more closely.

“It’s very disjointed and quite “We’re a good team, a good different,” he said. bunch of guys, but I think in “It’s the constant need to this comp we really had to get information to you from bind more to work together as elsewhere, and the amount of a team,” he said. information that they require “In this competition we had to make decisions, because they had learned a great to have other people doing I have to see things and deal to improve their existing tasks they wouldn’t typically relay them back to fresh air communications between do, so it really challenged our base, and it’s very much a the scene of a rescue and experience. communications exercise, as “We’re happy with how it went, the Fresh Air Base or control opposed to me making calls station. it’s all a learning experience, on what I see and acting on “I’d rather make the deciand the team will be a lot it without having to consult sions,” Power said. better for it.” someone else.”

“You’re there, you’re seeing Power said his team was one Oaky Creek North beats the situation, and you can of the best first-aid teams Kestrel on overall scores act on it, although in saying in the country, thanking the The quiet achiever of the that with big decisions like efforts of trainer Gordon International competition, changing the ventilation we McLean.

Oaky Creek North, managed would still call the FAB and Both Power and Powell said to place seventh in the overall get through to the Incident they preferred the Australian scores, representing third Management Team to make system in which the team place for Australia as a nation the decision.” captain makes most deciin the field of underground coal 1 mine 0 0 8rescue, 1 3 M behind i n i n g A u sions s t 2 to 1 take 0 -action, 1 but 2 0that 1 4 - 0Power 6 - 2attributed 4 T 1 0 his : 3team’s 0 : 5 5 + 1 success to the support of in terms of communications Poland and Kazakhstan.

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Hastings Deering is launching Also standard is a distributed Caterpillar’s ‘autonomous ready’ 12.8 to15.8 metres with a working PLC/CAN bus control system MD6420B rotary blasthole drill height of 62 500 kilograms.

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The drill is pre-wired to support improves entry and exit from interlocks.

Terrain for drilling, part of Cat Designed for heavy open pit the deck.

Hastings Deering’s Executive MineStar System. Terrain for and surface mining, Cat says the new model of drill has a range General Manager of Mining Adri- drilling improves drilling accurof features from the ultra-class an Carney said that Cat drills acy, provides feedback on varito the mid-size rotary drill line. had a wider footprint than many ations in bench geology, tracks drill and operator productivity, This includes greater operating people realised.

“Our customers are looking and allows remote, real-time fuel efficiency, safer and more precise electro-hydraulic controls, to lower their cost per tonne, supervision of drilling activity computer controlled drilling, as remove ‘waste’ from the system and blast planning.

The hazard avoidance features well as the automation of certain and to optimise productivity.

“This is where technology can help operators stay away from functions, most likely through Caterpillar’s integrated MineStar make a difference – the ability previously drilled areas and other to drill faster and smarter, to site hazards. Terrain also features system.

The control system also in- the correct pattern and target real time recognition of rock properties, providing valuable cludes real-time machine health depth every time.

“Importantly, technology is information to miners. monitoring and built-in diagnostic Carney said the Cat drills are tools. The on-board electronics not just about the future – techsuite has a Help page where all nology is here and now and is also one of the first to move tomanuals and schematics are becoming more standard in new wards fully autonomous mining models. Our new MD6420B capability. preloaded.

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OF THE 11TH ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN MINING PROSPECT AWARDS We’d also like to thank each and every finalist, as well as everyone who nominated, as without you we wouldn’t be able to hold awards such as these.

Every finalist should also be recognised for the way in which they are helping the mining industry to stay innovative, and stay strong during this current era of downturn.

Again, congratulations to all, and we hope to see you all next year.

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COMPACT WELDERS Lincoln Electric Australia introduces the new Power MIG 210 MP, a new compact welder for MIG welding applications.

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Lincoln Electric’s Power MIG 210 MP welders are designed for simple and intuitive use with push-and-turn digital controls and a colour display

Relpol, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of Industrial and Monitoring Relays, has relea sed t heir MR-ET1P Temperature Monitoring Relay to the Aus tralian market.

Sometimes MONITORS MOTOR WINDERS known as a PTC or Thermistor BULK SOLIDS relay, these devices monitor the temperature of a motor winding by use of up to 6 PTC Thermistors, MEASUREMENT if an overheat condition is detected, the single pole, change over contacts operate and the motor control VEGA Australia introduces the can be shut down in time to save the motor from VEGAPULS 69, the new radar costly damage. sensor recommended for reliable Other features of this relay include, DIN Rail level measurement of bulk solids. mounting, monitoring for a short circuit or wire The new VEGAPULS 69 is an break condition in the thermistor line, the option of all-round radar level measuring an external reset input and a built in test function instrument for bulk solids. Operatwith integrated Test/Reset key on the front panel. ing at a frequency of 79 GHz, the • Control Logic level transmitter enables considerably 0438 720 930 better focusing of the transmitted pauld@control-logic.com.au A M1 1 1 4 _ 0 0 0 _ MT G 1 2 0 1 4 signal, - 1 0 which - 2 4 helps T 0 9reduce : 3 6 the : 5issue 4 + 1 www.control-logic.com.au of background noise in containers and

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THE WELDER IS DESIGNED FOR RUGGED AREAS Key features of the Power MIG 210 MP welders include lightweight design anywhere; 20-140 amps DC produced at 40 pounds, enabling application on 120 volt input and 20-220 amps flexibility in any location; dual-input on 230 volt input. voltage options (120 and 230 volts) • Lincoln Electric allowing the user to plug in practically www.lincolnelectric.com.au silos with many internal obstructions.

The VEGAPULS 69 enables reliable measurement even with complex internal structures.

New microwave components allow the sensor to detect even the smallest of reflected signals. The reliable level measurement enabled by the new radar sensors facilitates an extremely broad application range in the bulk solids industry and also opens up new application areas. For instance, products such as plastic powders or wood chips that till recently were to measure because of 1very : 0difficult 0 their poor reflective properties can

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VEGAPULS 69 radar sensors have a measuring range of up to 120 metres and an accuracy of ±5 mm, providing sufficient performance capability even for tasks such as level gauging in mine shafts or distance measurement on conveyor systems. Despite its large measuring range, the sensor is also an ideal solution for small hoppers or containers, with the different antenna designs offering the optimum solution to meet diverse application needs.

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Australian Mining has teamed up with Manufacturers’ Monthly and PACE to acknowledge women who have achieved success through their invaluable leadership, innovation and commitment to their sector.

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The awards seek to single out and reward women who have created innovations, driven productivity, spearheaded change, and provided social and economic benefits through their fields.

The only awards program of its kind to encompass mining, manufacturing and engineering, it also encourages the industrial world to raise the profile of women working in the differing sectors by embracing diversity and flagging clear paths for the next generation to follow.

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QUEENSLAND GAS CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION (QGCE) 25-26 NOVEMBER BRISBANE, QLD The Queensland Gas Conference and Exhibition (QGCE) is presented by REEDMININGEVENTS and is dedicated to the latest developments and issues surrounding Coal Seam Gas (CSG) and Liquefied Natural

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ASIA MINING CONGRESS 2015 25 MAY 2015 SINGAPORE For the past 10 years, the Asia Mining Congress has established itself as the leading industry platform in Asia for global and regional miners, resource oriented investors, commodity buyers and sellers, policy makers and industry stakeholders to meet, network and discuss the growth and investment opportunities in the global mining sector. In its 11th year, we will continue to be the only mining investment event in Southeast Asia to offer an extensive conference programme alongside a strategic 1-1 meetings facilitation service.

We bring you face-to-face with your customers. · Terrapin www.terrapin.com/ asiamining

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WHEREVER THERE’S DRILLING, WE’RE THERE.

Cat® drills have a rich history grounded in proven performance and durability. Today, Caterpillar and Hastings Deering are taking this legacy forward to deliver trusted drilling systems for a wide variety of applications. Cat drills are built tough providing you with optimum performance and serviceability. As your service partner, Hastings Deering backs your investment with 24/7 parts support and the expertise of Caterpillar trained service technicians.

hastingsdeering.com.au/drills

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