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Northern Star Resources’ operations at the Kanowna Belle underground gold mine in Western Australia have been impacted by an earthquake, the state’s mines department has confirmed.

The Queensland Mines Inspectorate (QMI) is progressing an investigation into a gas ignition event that shut down Anglo American’s Grosvenor coal mine earlier this month.

Anglo American has confirmed an ignition of methane took place at the Grosvenor underground coal mine in central Queensland last week.

There is no doubt that the construction industry will have to adopt different management practices to not only manage the current requirements of social spacing but in the future for further breakouts or spikes in COVID-19.

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance’s (BMA) focus on introducing automation has increased after two dump trucks collided at an intersection on the main haul road at the Saraji mine in Queensland on ANZAC day.

Rio Tinto has suspended the Kennecott copper operations near Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit close to the town of Magna.

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

A plane carrying FIFO workers has overshot the runway in Newman Airport, Western Australia upon completing its journey from Perth. 

Anglo American has withdrawn its personnel following a change in the underground environment at its Grasstree mine in the Bowen Basin, Queensland.

The rising number of commercial vehicles on Australian roads has led to more fatalities, crashes and poor driving attributable to heavy vehicles.

An attack on Semafo’s Bongou mine convoy in Burkina Faso, West Africa last week has caused its operations to remain suspended. 

The New South Wales Resources Regulator has cited a breakdown in communications as one of the contributing factors of an automated machinery collision at Peabody Energy’s Wilpinjong coal mine in May this year.

The mining and metals industry has not succeeded in having a fatality-free year, International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) manager of health and safety Mark Holmes warns.

The New South Wales Resources Regulator is investigating a heavy vehicle collision at the Peabody Energy-owned Wilpinjong coal mine.

The long-awaited re-entry to the Pike River coal mine has been delayed after the New Zealand Government made a commitment to return in November 2018.

Yancoal has received regulatory approval to recommence production at the Austar mine, after it was suspended from conducting all longwall activities by NSW Resources Regulator on July 9.