The Mining Chronicle Current Features

Far North Queensland
Ergon Energy’s apprentice induction program in North Queensland attracted workers from Mt Isa and Winton. The project is a statewide campaign to train apprentices in the mining industry and induction programs are being carried out in Townsville, Rockhampton and Brisbane.
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Centennial Coal
Centennial Coal which operates nine coal mines in New South Wales has poured a reported net profit of $71.2 million into its coffers, an increase of 11 per cent from the previous year’s $64.3 million.
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Golden West Resources
Golden West Resources focuses on its Wiluna West gold and iron ore potential  with an estimate of 87,000 ounces of gold being targeted.
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CBH Resources
CBH Resources looks set to gear up operations at its Endeavour mine near Cobar, Rasp mine in Broken Hill and Panorama copper-zinc mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
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Rapid Growth Project
BHP Billiton’s Iron Ore Rapid Growth Project 4 is fast approaching completion while  RGP 5 is well underway and is expected to lift production by 50mtpa to 205 mtpa by the end of 2011.
In January the Rapid Growth Project 6 was announced and RGP 6 will further increase capacityto a staggering 240 mtpa when it is completed in 2013. Further expansion phases called Quantum are in early stages and will herald production breaking the 300mtpa barrier.
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Stirling Resources
Stirling Resources continues to focus on its Matilda Zircon, Swan Gold mining and Redbank copper investments. The company plans to target its brownfields operations more comprehensively and is looking forward to a strong year of production in 2010.
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Dust Control
Nelson Australia recently sold 117 of its 24 degree Big Guns  to Alcoa for use at its Pinjarra residue storage area dust suppression system in Western Australia.
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Surface Mining & Terrain Levelling
UEA Civil Engineering currently own and operate six Vermeer 1255 Terrain Levellers and operate three of FMG’s Wirtgen road profilers to mine the Christmas Creek deposit. These numbers are soon to grow as FMG intend to expand the mine from 9mta to 30mta over the next 12 months. UEA is using a combination of the two machines types to best mine the pits.
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Safety Above & Below
Industrial safety specialist Fortress Interlocks has introduced an ATEX Certified, explosion protected safety switch key station. The CPS4STOPXP key station is designed to release keys which can be used to control mechanical door locks that provide access to machinery and process lines operating in potentially explosive environments.
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Mine Plant Maintenance
Drive-in/drive out spill prevention and containment berms from Enware Safe-Equip are constructed for rapid deployment in applications involving hazardous fuels, chemicals and liquids.
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MInesite Catering
Minesite catering specialist Sodexco has donated US$150k  to the STOP Hunger program which contributes to the fight against hunger and malnutrition in remote and third world countries where the group is actively present.
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Wastewater & Resource Management
Technology represented in Australia by CST Wastewater Solutions was recently involved in a project involving technology selection, design and turnkey installation of a dewatering plant at Anglo Platinum’s Modikwa Mine in South Africa
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Filters, Filtration & Separation
When selecting a bulk filtration system there are several things to consider – capital cost, system size, filtration efficiency, installation and location of the system. All of these important aspects should be discussed with a filtration solutions partner to ensure that the correct system is selected and installed.
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