BHP Billiton says the haulage system in the Clark Shaft at its Olympic Dam mine has been damaged in a mechanical failure.
08/10/2009
MACMAHON Holdings and Leighton Contractors say BHP Billiton has awarded them a $500m railway construction contract.
09/04/2009
RCR TOMLINSON and Laing O’Rourke say BHP Billiton Iron Ore has contracted the joint venture to design and construct primary and secondary crushing facilities, including overland conveyors.
26/05/2009
BHP BILLITON says third parties should not get access to its rail network in the Pilbara, citing the grounding of a Fortescue ship at its Port Hedland harbour.
04/08/2008
THE FEDERAL government says the Hamersley, Robe and Goldsworthy railway lines owned by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton should be opened to third-party access.
28/10/2008
SEDGMAN will design and procure a coal handling and preparation plant for BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance.
15/08/2008
BHP Billiton has closed its main Pilbara railway after a rail maintenance worker was killed on the line.
26/02/2009
VDM Group’s Perth subsidiary Cape Crushing and Earthmoving Contractors, has been awarded an ore haulage contract by BHP Billiton Nickel West.
02/09/2008
MONADELPHOUS Group has been awarded $100m worth of new contracts by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.
15/05/2009
BHP Billiton says its ore haulage operations at the Olympic Dam mine will be at 25% capacity for six months.
22/10/2009
ACCUWEIGH says it has commissioned industrial platform scales for BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam Project.
11/08/2009
WORLEYPARSONS has acquired a Canadian-based bulk material handling and transportation specialist in marine, port, resource and mining.
06/06/2008
UNITED Group will provide iron ore wagons, locomotives and acid tank wagons to three companies.
30/06/2008
GRAINCORP says it will combine its storage and logistics divisions and regions into six new regions, in a major restructure of its business.
18/03/2009
AMIRA International has announced a new research project aimed at enhancing the performance of thickeners used in hydrometallurgy and other minerals processing and handling applications.
08/01/2009
FOUR activists chained themselves to a conveyor belt at the world’s biggest coal terminal on 14 July 2008, disrupting operations for a second day.
15/07/2008
OUTOTEC is installing an advanced automated mineral processing sampling and analysing system at BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam.
29/01/2009
ENERPAC and WA engineering company AME have worked together to provide the fabrication and testing of a tilt table for the Pyrenees offshore oil and gas project, said to have been delivered ahead of scheduled time.
16/02/2010
ACCUWEIGH has recently installed and certified a truck weighbridge at Advanced Metal Recyclers plant in Capalaba, Queensland.
19/02/2010