Glencore wins two major mining awards in New South Wales
Media statement
Glencore has won two major awards at last night's New South Wales Mining Industry Awards in the Hunter Valley.
The awards reflect a strong focus on the health and welfare of our employees and management of environmental impacts across our coal mining operations in the region.
Glencore's Ravensworth open cut operations won awards in the Safety and Environment Excellence categories.
A healthy workforce initiative put in place at our Mt Owen mine by operaters Thiess also took out the Health Excellence category of the awards.
"Each of our coal mines is looking to achieve continuous improvement in all areas of operation, and this year's award wins clealy demonstrate this commitment," said Steve Hubert, General Manager of Glencore's Greater Ravensworth coal mines.
Ravensworth's open cut mine has created an industry first with a project that is successfully monitoring gas levels in blast plumes.
The site pioneered use of a gas monitor mounted on a drone to fly through blast plumes to track the level and rates of dissipation of gas, particularly nitrogen dioxide.
"The monitoring will provide the industry, our regulators and our communities with greater reassurance of our blast management process," Mr Hubert said.
"Importantly, the monitoring has also shown that no NO2 has left the site in more than 50 blasts that have been monitred to date."
An engineered solution to removal of crusher teeth at Ravensworth coal preparation plant won the Safety Excellence category award.
A technique that employs hydraulic power to dismantle the equipment has saved maintenance employees from the onerous task of undertaking this work using sledgehammers.
"This is an initiative that will improve health and safety of employees not only across Glencore's operations but others in the coal business as well as many other industries where this crushing equipment is in use," said Mr Hubert.
Mr Hubert also congratulated Thiess, operators of our Mt Own coal mine, on their success in the Health Excellence category.
The Positively Healthy initiative has achieved real weight loss and positive overall health outcomes across the Mt Owen workforce.
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About Glencore
Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 90 commodities. The Group's operations comprise about 150 mining and metallurgical sites, oil production assets and agricultural facilities.
With a strong footprint in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, Glencore's industrial and marketing activities are supported by a global network of more than 90 offices located in over 50 countries.
Glencore's customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, oil and food processing. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities. Glencore's companies employ around 155,000 people, including contractors.
Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
Visit Glencore's website to learn more.
About Glencore Australia
Glencore is a major Australian employer, with over 15,600 people working across industries that include coal, copper, cotton, grain and oilseeds, nickel, oil and zinc.
In 2016, we contributed more than $12 billion to the regional, state and national economies, by employing people, sourcing from local communities, and paying taxes to our host governments.
Visit Glencore Australia's website to find out more.
About Glencore's coal business in Australia
Glencore is one of Australia’s largest coal producers with 13 mining complexes—including 17 operational mines—across New South Wales and Queensland.
We employ 7,500 Australians and in 2016 managed the production of nearly 93 million tonnes of thermal and coking coal, predominantly for export.
We have a strong safety and environmental performance and play an active role in the development of low emission coal technology.