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Newmont Corporation has launched its sustainability report, addressing key areas such as health, security, the environment and diversity.

OZ Minerals and Byrnecut continue to scrutinise an incident that occurred at the Prominent Hill mine in South Australia in September.

The number of fatalities in the mining sector last year has matched its five-year average from 2015 to 2019, according to a Safe Work Australia report.

The tragic passing of a mine worker at the Springvale coal mine in New South Wales last month was found to be non work related.

The Henty gold mine emergency response team has found a Pybar Mining Services worker who has been missing since January this year.

The Queensland Government and resources industry has held an urgent meeting on the mining sector’s safety performance in the wake of four fatal incidents this year.

BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has slowly resumed its operations at the Saraji coal mine in the Bowen Basin, Queensland following a tragic incident on New Year’s Eve.

The New Zealand Government has chosen to re-enter the Pike River mine drift via the “simplest and safest plan”, eight years since multiple explosions resulted in 29 fatalities on November 19 2010.

A worker was reported dead at Peabody Energy-owned Wilpinjong coal mine near Mudgee in New South Wales.

Rio Tinto’s Pilbara iron ore shipments of 81.9 million tonnes (Mt) this September quarter experienced a five percent decline from the same period last year, as the company took maintenance and safety pauses across all its operations.

Malcolm Broomhead, chairman of explosives company Orica, explained at the company’s annual general meeting that several executives would receive bonus cuts in light of two work fatalities during the 2017 financial year.