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BHP hands Olympic Dam contract to Boom

BHP’s Olympic Dam operation in South Australia. BHP has awarded a $15 million smelter maintenance contract at the Olympic Dam operation in South Australia to Boom Logistics. BHP has been setting Olympic Dam for the long-term, with exploration, maintenance and...

Mining metals without a shovel in sight

Image: Shutterstock Researchers have developed a technique for extracting precious metals from hard rock ore without digging. Published in Science Advances, the research team included the CSIRO and the University of Western Australia (UWA), University of Exeter and...

Engineering Safer Conveyors: Art Meets Science

All new conveyor systems will inevitably succumb to the punishing bulk handling environment and begin the slow process of degradation.  The system will eventually require more time and labor for maintenance, shorter spans between outages, longer periods of downtime...