Explorer Alice Queen is hailing Horn Island’s potential as a multimillion-ounce gold asset after a string of positive developments. Interim results from a dipole dipole induced polarisation (DDIP) survey point to a 1.4km anomaly associated with surface gold. The comp...
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With the State Government looking into the potential re-commercialisation of North Queensland’s Wolfram Camp tungsten site, AMEC is hosting a webinar on February 1 for interested parties. Revisiting such abandoned sites for commercial opportunities is a key direction coming out of the Queensland Resources Industry Development Plan (QRIDP) released last year. The Department of Res...
Sunwater has shared images from the Rookwood Weir site highlighting the challenges of carrying out a $367.2 million construction project in Australia’s second largest river basin. It says river levels have dramatically receded at Rookwood Weir since the Fitzroy River peaked late last year. About 1400 megalitres (ML) a day are flowing past the site – a 90 per cent reduction on the 140...
Power solution provider Aggreko has released its top tips to help miners decarbonise now and into the future. Aggreko global head of mining Rod Saffy said while miners were embracing the global energy transition, some were unsure where to begin. “For some miners it’s about knowing where to start and they may be weighing up the cost, risk and threat of new technology in the future,” Mr Saffy...
Mining companies have dropped the ball on COVID-19 control measures like social distancing and hygiene as the highly contagious Omicron variant spreads through the Queensland coal industry, the Mining and Energy Union says. Queensland District president Stephen Smyth said mining companies had not updated their risk management plans to take into account the new variant and had dropped most of ...
The team building Genex Power’s $777 million Kidston hydro-electricity project has started underground excavation works with the first major blast for the Main Access Tunnel (MAT). The company said tunnelling operations were now progressing on a 24/7 basis with two shifts per day at the North Queensland site. This would progress the tunnelling works at an average rate of 8m per day ov...
Global demand for copper will outstrip supply by more than six million tonnes a year by 2030, Rystad Energy projects. As an essential component in manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs) and consumer electronics, a deficit of this magnitude would have wide-reaching ramifications, the research group said. “Lackluster investments in copper mining are stumping supply, as the pandemic-driven mar...
An online industry conference in April will highlight the business and supply chain procurement opportunities within Queensland’s burgeoning renewable energy sector. Connecting Industry managing director Kieran Moran. The Connecting Renewable Energy Conference Queensland will feature approved and proposed solar, wind, battery, hydro-electric, and hydrogen projects. Event organis...
Ballymore Resources says it has identified a significant new gold-silver mineralised system along strike from Mount Wright and Hadleigh Castle mines in North Queensland. Rock chip samples from Day Dawn, within Ballymore’s Ravenswood project, returned results up to 127.5 g/t gold, 708 ppm silver and 2.83 per cent lead. The Day Dawn prospect hosts numerous historical pits and shafts and...
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