Employees from Glencore’s Lady Loretta mine had the opportunity recently to meet with neighbouring landowners and key local stakeholders as part of its annual Neighbours Day.Stakeholders made the 280km round
Sandvik has revealed details of a $249 million deal to supply machinery including drills, loaders and trucks for Glencore Queensland Metals operations over six years.A Sandvik DD421 development drill supplied
Mount Isa Mayor Danielle Slade has welcomed news the city’s copper smelter will remain open for the next few years, following an agreement between the Queensland Government and Glencore.“Mount Isa
Glencore will continue to run its copper smelter in Mount Isa and refinery in Townsville beyond 2022 after reaching an agreement with the State Government.The company announced today that it
An announcement is expected within six weeks regarding the future of Glencore’s Mount Isa copper smelter and Townsville copper refinery.Glencore Queensland Metals chief operating officer Matt O’Neill said the company
The first production ore from the Black Rock Cave project at Mount Isa Mines has come online more than two years after the underground mine development began.The ore body is
Six Sandvik LH517i’s are being introduced at George Fisher Mine in Mount Isa as part of an automation project.The Glencore-owned mine welcomed the first three new underground loaders in June,
Glencore has brought a new ball mill online at the Mount Isa Mines copper concentrator in a move to improve flotation performance.A third ball mill complete with a 3500 horse
Glencore has boosted ventilation capacity with a significant infrastructure project at Mount Isa’s George Fisher underground mine.The upgrade would allow for the safe extraction of a mining block affectionately known
Glencore has provided a $725,000 funding injection to the University of Queensland’s efforts to develop a vaccine for COVID-19.UQ’s ‘Molecular Clamp’ project uses technology that ensures the vaccine induces an
Remote workers are returning to the workplace at Glencore’s Queensland Metals operations, with measures including fever checks in place to safeguard again the spread of COVID-19.The company said employees had
As COVID-19 restrictions put the brakes on site visits, mineral processing experts from Queensland’s Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) took a new approach to keep key work on track.Surveying,
Mines Minister Anthony Lynham says he will be arranging a meeting with Glencore over plans to combine its Queensland copper and zinc operations under a single management structure.The company announced
Glencore is combining its Queensland copper and zinc operations under a single management structure, but says it is too early to comment on what the change will mean for jobs
Glencore’s $1.5 billion Valeria coal project in the Bowen Basin has been declared a coordinated project by Queensland’s independent Coordinator-General.A construction workforce of up to 1400 people is expected to
