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Reporting on Rosebery
With close to 100 employees, working on Barminco’s
underground mine project in Tasmania - known as Rosebery -
is pretty much like being part of a very big family as everyone
looks after one another, according to members of the project
lead team Mark Reed and Jason Retallick.
Working on behalf of our client MMG, Barminco is responsible
for all development requirements at Rosebery Mine. And we’re
extremely pleased to report that, together with MMG, Barminco
achieved over 1,800m development metres over a three month
period and completed this injury free - a great testament to
everyone on site.
Indeed, achieving over 600m in consecutive months had not
been accomplished for several years and highlights that safe
production can be achieved with a dedicated commitment
towards Safety, Integrity and Excellence.
As of the end of September, we’re also very pleased to have
achieved over 125 injury free days which is an excellent team
effort and, it goes without saying that our aim is to accumulate
as many injury free days as possible.
Like any project, there are always challenges to be faced, but at
Rosebery we’re all about finding solutions and moving on to the
next goal.
Did you know?
• Rosebery is expected to remain in operation until 2025, with
Barminco’s current contract being a 3+2 year term.
• The inception of the contract was January, 2015.
Adding value in Africa
Barminco is proud of its work and track record in Africa,
where we have been focused on bringing Australian standards
of mining to the African market for many years. Currently
our work is being carried out under the name of African
Underground Mining Services (AUMS), which is a joint venture
formed in 2007 between ourselves and Ausdrill. Significantly,
between our companies we have more than a quarter of a
century’s experience operating in Africa.
One of the more interesting projects Barminco is currently
involved with is Yaramoko, a relatively new site which we
commenced work on in July 2015. This exciting new gold
project is situated on rich ground utilising narrow vein mining
techniques, and there are currently a fleet of four drills and
five loaders ready to deliver the client’s requirements on this
highly prospective, ever-increasing tenement in an exciting
geographical location in Burkina Faso.
And significantly, we’re very pleased to report that AUMS has
recorded 500 days LTI free for the group workforce of over
800 personnel, 140 western expatriates, and 40 intra-African
expatriates. That represents more than 2.5 million man hours
and we feel the entire team deserves recognition for this
impressive performance.
We’ll be sure to bring you further details on this significant
Barminco Project in future newsletters.
Fast Facts
• The Yaramoko project consists of portal construction and
decline, ARMCO tunnel construction, development and
production works.
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Yaramoko Project
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