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Tasmanian Minerals CouncilAnnual Report 2013

The Tasmanian Minerals Council aims to

be the organisation recognised

for the leadership, effective issues

management and cooperative action for

the State’s minerals industry.

Our mission is to promote the

development of a safe, profitable and

sustainable minerals sector, which

operates within community standards.

ACN: 009 554 61632 Davey Street Hobart 7000

Telephone: (03) 6223 8600

Facsimile: (03) 6231 1689

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.tasmanianmining.com.au

ContentsPresident’s Report ............................................... 1

OH&S Report .......................................................... 2

2013 Minerals Conference .................................. 5

2013 Minerals Business Forum ......................... 7

Communications ................................................. 8

Rally Fever .............................................................. 9

Mining Industry Communication .................. 10

Tasmanian Mining Facebook .......................... 11

We Remember Darryl Gerrity ......................... 17

Savage River: Good While It Lasted .............. 19

Mining Profiles: Peta Forster .......................... 21

AWU’s Cover Boy: Malcom Jago .................... 22

Emily McPhee’s Journey to Geology ............. 23

Tony Ferguson ..................................................... 24

Diwali ..................................................................... 26

Tasmanian Minerals Emergency

Response Committee - Chairman’s Report ... 27

2013 Financials ................................................... 33

Board of Directors .............................................. 38

2013 Tasmanian Minerals Council Members .. 42

The year in review accounts for the switch in the green movement’s antagonism from forestry to mining.

From that viewpoint, we had our work cut out to defend our position in the north-west of the State and stake a claim for continued economic activity in the region in the future.

By and large, we were successful. We saw off an intense campaign to have the Tarkine heritage-listed and now some smaller mines have been approved in the area. Mind you, we had lots of help. Every municipal council from Devonport to Smithton went public in support of balanced economic development for the region, and the Australian Workers’ union also weighed in heavily. These things were the catalysts for the general population to have a say and they did that – at large rallies at Burnie, Smithton and Tullah. In the end, it was an impressive display of people-power which won the day.

We might well question why an industry which has a history of more than a century in Tasmania is fighting for its survival. We work within the legislative and regulatory frameworks. We are cognisant of the communities around us because we are part of them. We have in the main sophisticated environmental management systems and we provide a good cash-flow which regional towns need to underpin their activities and services. The answer is the form of environmentalism some in Tasmania have adopted, which essentially wants to see resource industries out of the State. They don’t want a balance between industry and environment. They just want industry out, which thinking people readily realise is a formula for unemployment and its attendant social consequences. So we will fight the good fight, when and where required.

From a business perspective, we are one year further from the Global Financial Crisis, but the economies of Europe and the United States are still not in good shape. In fact, some of the regional European communities continue to face weak economies and unhealthy levels of unemployment. In tandem with China coming off the boil, prices for some of our commodities have fallen from their previously high levels and some, like zinc and aluminium, remain low at the time of writing. Others, like iron ore, copper and tin have fared a little better so it was a year of mixed results.

The safety and health of our people at work remain a priority. Apart from the ongoing work in this area from site to site, we have maintained a dialogue with the industry regulator Workplace Standards Tasmania to look at trends in safety at the industry-wide level. There is further information in this report on trends, but we have made improvements in key areas at the industry level. Safety is and will remain a work-in-progress.

As the financial year drew to a close, we were turning our attention to matters of energy, which is important to industry and householders alike. At one time, Tasmania had cheap power but those days are gone, as our electricity bills will attest. However, industry, along with households, are having some difficulty in digesting the energy bill at present. There have been spectacular rises in the amount charged for our transmission services. We will endeavour in the coming year to have reason descend upon energy provision, or we will price ourselves out of the markets and out of Tasmania. Energy should be a vital enabler to make the economy shine. At present, it is a lead weight upon us. Change is required.

Your Directors have been very busy on your behalf during the year under review. I would like to thank them personally for the effort they put in. My thanks also for the staff at the secretariat for implementing the Board’s policies.

Wayne Bould, President

President’s Report

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Our collective approach to the cross-industry task of providing safe workplaces took a number of forms in the year under review.

They included –

• An industry meeting to share experiences and leading practice across the sites in Tasmania

• A forum with Workplace Standards Tasmania to look at aggregated data, trends and improvements across the industry and

• An industry-wide workshop to assess possible new OHS regulations in Tasmania, under the harmonised national OHS legislation.

Each of these forums was valuable, for different reasons.

The first of them, a meeting of the Tasmanian Minerals Council’s Occupational Health and Safety Committee, provided the platform for people working in the area of OHS to discuss either site-specific initiatives or areas where there is a commonality of approach. In the latter category, the matter of diesel particulates is being tackled in mine sites. Diesel particulates are the very small matter emitted from the exhaust of diesel-powered machinery – either mobile plant or fixed machinery.

In the United States, these very small particulates have been classified as carcinogenic. Therefore, around the world industry is taking action to remove them from the air people breathe at work and that includes in underground mines. The particulate matter can be handled in a number of ways, including increasing the airflow through mine workings. However, it is also possible to tackle them at their source – the exhaust of the machine.

The mines are having success with specialised filters which are fitted to the machine exhausts, preventing the problem from arising in the first place.

On another front, government regulators and industry practitioners undertook a risk-assessment of refuge chambers in underground mines. These are the safety capsules which offer safe refuge to people in the event of an underground emergency, and in particular a fire which may generate smoke, making breathing problematic. The task force identified some maintenance issues and will make some minor amendments to procedures governing the use of the chambers, as well as identifying the top ten matters which could make up a standard for their use and maintenance.

A forum was held with Workplace Standards in Burnie, where the information the individual sites send to the regulator is aggregated and analysed to identify industry-wide trends. In the previous year, the regulator identified rock falls at individual mines as a concern and as a result there were changes in the way the mines go about making stable the walls and ceilings of the tunnels they are working in. There were changes in the type of rock bolts used in some areas and shotcrete use increased. The changes led to an improvement in the number and severity of rock falls in the year under review. A pie chart is attached of the types of hazards encountered and the percentage of “notifiable incidents” (the incidents which have to be reported to the government regulator) they make up of the total.

These Workplace Standards forums are very well regarded by industry participants because they provide the “big picture” data which is not available to individual companies.

OH&S Report

Matt Daly, ChairOccupational Health & Safety Committee

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OH&S Report

My thanks to everybody from the mines and mineral processing plants who have attended these key events and to Workplace Standards for organising the forum in Burnie.

The third of the initiatives this year was a cross-industry workshop in Launceston, where people had the chance to assess the many components and approaches contained in the proposed new mining regulations. In government circles, these regulations are known as “Chapter 10” because they make up that chapter of the legislation. There are differing views on whether Tasmania needs “Chapter 10” at all. We have current regulations which strike a balance between the duty-of-care approach and a prescriptive approach where it is needed. And importantly, the current regulations were agreed only three or four years ago by the key stakeholders – the government regulator, unions and industry. There is a view that with only minor modification, they would fall easily in line with the requirements of the national harmonised regulation.

Reported Incident Breakdown

Other, 6, 20%Mobile Plant, 4, 17%

Fires, 5, 22%

Rockfalls, 5, 22%

Electricity, 2, 9%

Fixed Plant, 1, 4%Explosives, 0, 0%



The 2013 Tasmanian Minerals Council ‘s Conference in May was strategically varied with a focus on the importance and economics of the manufacturing sector.

This year there was discussion around economics, social media, mining legacies and exploration.

The two day conference was attended by over 160 people and included 22 speakers and forum panellists.

Leading Economist Prof Bruce Felmingham’s socio-economic analysis on five of the State’s larger enterprises demonstrated the effect they have on the Tasmanian economy. The five companies of Norske Skog, MMG Rosebery, Nyrstar Hobart, Bell Bay Aluminium and TEMCO contribute in excess of $1.0B and the broader group contributes $2.5B or 11% of Tasmania’s Gross State Product. This group is one of the biggest employees in the State and accounts for about half of the total export revenue for the state.

In addition, there was stimulating discussions of the need for people to speak up and become active in the social media area. This included a warning that the Tasmanian mining industry was living in a bubble and that it needed to break out and tell the world about its virtues and values or antagonists will burst that bubble.

The President of the Tasmanian Minerals Council, Wayne Bould, concluded the conference with the importance of continuing to promote the significance of the mining industry at every opportunity.

The conference coverage can be viewed at www.tasmanianmining.com.au/2013_conference

2013 Minerals Conference


The Tasmanian Minerals Council would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:


Over 100 people attended the Tasmanian Minerals Council Business Forum in Launceston on Friday, 22 March, 2013.

This annual event provided members with an opportunity to network and promote their business and products. In addition several speakers provided insightful update on their operations.

The Tasmanian Minerals Council would like to thanks our sponsors Pitt & Sherry.

2013 Minerals Business Forum


Communications

In 2013 Tasmanian Mining continued with its grass-roots, hard-hitting social media campaign to defend land access.

The year was off to a good start and provided the Tasmanian mining and minerals industry with a surge of optimism following the former Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke’s rejection of a blanket heritage listing of the Tarkine area with his announcement in February 2013. Minister Burke listed a 21,000 hectare coastal strip to protect Aboriginal heritage and by doing so declined a 400,000 hectare listing which environmentalists were seeking.

Tellingly, Minister Burke said in justification of his decision: “I’ve met with local mining and industry groups to understand the economic development issues of the region and camped in the Tarkine with environment groups. There has never been an issue in my time as Environment Minister where my views have changed so fundamentally after a site visit. I was expecting to see a pristine area pretty much covered in rainforest. The truth of the industrial history and current industrial activity in the Tarkine is quite different to these images.”

The historian and Tarkine expert, Dr Nic Haygarth, further demonstrated Minister Burke’s comments by confirming that the Tarkine has 140 years of mining history and 600 past and present mines.

It is fair to say the Tasmanian Mining campaign has been a success. Perhaps this is no surprise when the motivation for the campaign came about from exasperated mining employees who kept approaching managers demanding to know when something would be done to counteract the relentless misrepresentations from some extreme environmentalists. Hence the Tasmanian Mining campaign was born in June 2012.


Rally Fever

The pro mining rally fever that infected regional Tasmania is definitely a stand out of 2013. Until now, rallying and protesting have always been the domain of the environmental movement.

Around 10,000 people attended four pro industry rallies in ten months, including Mayors and the State’s main politicians such as the Premier, the Deputy Premier, the Opposition Leader and the Shadow Mining Minister.

The first rally in Burnie in November 2012 was attended by 3,500. This was followed by a rally in the tiny mining town of Tullah in May that was so well-attended that it was impossible for supporters to fit into Tullah’s Community Hall. There were more rallies in Smithton in June and September, including a car rally where over 1,000 people formed a convoy of 400 vehicles.


While defending land access is the major component of the Tasmanian Mining campaign, it is not the only one. The website and Facebook includes key aspects such as industry profiles, the Voice of the People, promotion of the industry’s Occupational Health and Safety and Emergency Response competition, current industry news and affairs and various relevant articles.

www.tasmanianmining.com.au/home

Communication and promotion of the mining industryWhile the mining industry is making considerable efforts and improvements at promoting itself, it needs to do more and be more pro-active. This was one of the points that came out of the Minerals conference in May by speakers - for example, Jan Davis (CEO of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association), Sue Smith (a recently retired Legislative Councillor) and James Cretan (Chairman, Tasmanian Industry Group).

As an industry, we remain passionate and proud about what we do and we will therefore continue to take every effort and opportunity to promote ourselves.

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The Tasmanian Mining facebook page continued to be utilised daily to communicate news, events and opinions reflecting the views of the industry and supporters of it. Some of the 2013 highlights are provided here.

Industry events such as the Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response competition are covered live as much as possible with Facebook images and posts, such as the two-day Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response competition. More information on the competition is provided on page 27 in the annual report.


Henty Gold Mine RehabilitationRehabilitation is part and parcel of modern mining practice, yet this is an area the industry has not promoted as well as it could. This post, along with a link to the Tasmanian Mining website showing other rehabilitation examples, provided an opportunity to promote it. And the facebook supporters responded and showed their appreciation of the post.

These images depict the Pond B Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) from various angles and aspects at Unity Mining Ltd’s Henty Gold Mine. Pond B was decommissioned in 2001 when Henty commissined the Newton TSF, and rehabilitation earthworks were undertaken on Pond B in early 2003. Part of Henty’s commitment to best practice environmental management is to rehabilitate disturbed areas of the lease as soon as possible after they are deemed no longer required for the ongoing operation.

Spillway before 2003.

Spillway after 2013.

The facebook page provides links to profiles on industry people, such as Tina Wu, who worked at Grange Resources in Burnie.


Each year Ron Bugg (former Tasmanian Minerals Council’s Education Manager) takes a group of University of Tasmania’s Engineering students on a three or four day mining tour. This year they visited Grange Resources’ Savage River, Unity Mining Ltd Henty Gold Mine and Vedanta’s Copper Mines of Tasmania.

The public’s support of the mining industry is reflected in the Voice of the People which continues to be a popular and intermittent post on the Facebook page.



The ten mayors of the Cradle Coast Authority signed a joint letter addressed to politicians to show their support for mining in Tasmania’s North/ North West and to raise their concern regarding illegal trespass and appeals that are holding up the development and start of approved and legitimate mining projects.

This post about Wildlife Biologist and Tasmanian devil expert, Nick Mooney, was an important one for the mining industry to promote as Mooney’s message is contrary to what environmentalists claim about the devils.

Nick Mooney has publically stated that the devil facial tumour disease may already be present in the Tarkine region and that mining in the area would have a small impact on the devils and that it would be well within sustainable levels to the local population.


The pro mining Tullah rally was held on 25 May 2013 and this image posted on the day soon after the rally certainly captured the moment and mood.


Darryl Gerrity died in 2013.

This is an iceberg sentence. Because beneath the headline, lies a big life, lived to the full, which dominated the affairs of Western Tasmania and spread into the politics of Tasmania.

Darryl Gerrity was the Mayor of the West Coast Council.

But in local government, as in all of the affairs of State, he was atypical. Darryl was intelligent, sparky, witty and larger-than-life.

For the media, he was eminently quotable – “Treasury is not the Mother Theresa of Government Departments”.

Darryl was 70 when he died in hospital in October of 2013.

Our communications officer, Natalie Johnston, conducted this interview with Darryl during his final year.

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Tasmania’s west coast conjures images of rain, brown rivers, lush vegetation, mining and the Franklin River. And Darryl Gerrity.

There’s a Latin logo on the old Mt Lyell train, Darryl says. Its interpretation is that we will find a way, or make it. “And that’s what you do,” Darryl ads. “If it wasn’t for the Council making a lot of noise, a lot of things wouldn’t get done. So you’ve got to upset people. If you’ve got to do that, then so be it.” He laughs.

“There’s nobody out there looking after the west coast,” Darryl says. “ The Council is all it’s had. The Council feels the role of advocacy for the community on everything. So a lot of people rely on the Council to put their views across to politicians.

We Remember Darryl Gerrity

“Politicians don’t understand the real world ...Politicians are nervous when they come here.”

Darryl is proud of saying what he thinks. And he obviously does not mind ruffling a few feathers along the way.

We meet at the new and modern Council chambers in Queenstown. Darryl , the West Coast Mayor since 2000, is a small man, contrary to his larger than life persona. An outsider could easily walk past him in his work clothes and presume he was a miner on his way to a work shift. He has been working for Tas Ports for 25 years. He started his career in the mines with an electrical apprenticeship in 1963. He worked there for five years and three seconds, Darryl says.

There’s a roll-your-own tobacco packet in his shirt pocket. He laughs and jokes often. At the same time he delivers his messages and replies deftly and effectively.

“One of the negatives of the drive-in, drive-out miners is that they export the wages, they’re not involved in the community, they bring their food with them ...this is having a detrimental social and economic effect on the community,” Darryl says.

In its prime, the population of the west coast was 20,000. It is now 6,500. Darryl said that anecdotally around seven out of ten mining workers were drive in/ drive out.

He believes there are a number of ways that this can addressed, including a $10,000 tax exemption for miners who live on the west coast. Darryl has recently returned from Melbourne where he was the only Tasmanian who participated in the hearing of the Standing Committee on Regional Australia’s inquiry into fly-in, fly-out workforces, headed by Tony Windsor.


He reiterates what a lot of locals pledge: that there’s a strong community on the west coast because of the isolation and that people rally together to fix things and to help people.

Darryl said they are pursuing mining heritage developments, for example the renovation of Lake Margaret, an old village left over from Mt Lyell and 20 minutes from Queenstown. He believes it has great potential as a tourist facility and an educational camp. People could study and work there and look at geology, weed control, flora and fauna, for example. Darryl is unimpressed that the University of Tasmania have not got on board with this. They were not prepared to leave behind their lattes in Salamanca, he felt.

On reminding him to register and have his say with Tasmanian Mining, he leans into the taperecorder. “You hear that, two cartons of beer, Terry.” (Darryl’s reference to Terry Long –Chief Executive Director of Tasmanian Minerals Council).

“Is that all? Have you got everything you need .... Ok, piss off then,” he jokes. At least I hope he’s joking.

He said it went well. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised if something came out of that, a zone allowance being allocated to the west coast to support people who come and live here,” he says.

The west coast should obtain a great share of the mining royalties, Darryl believes. “Whenever we’ve had any funding for the west coast it’s been taken away, denied,” he says.

The State Government recently took eight million earmarked for the Mt Lyell remediation and spent it on the fox task force as an example, according to Darryl. “And I don’t hear any outcry from the mining companies, pathetic.”

He believes the remediation money could have been used to help fund technology required to help clean up the King and Queen rivers and remove minerals from the waterway. “Mining places around the world are screaming out for clean-up technology,” he says.

Darryl feels that overall the old mining companies were more local and involved. “They were the umbilical cord for the community.”

He is supportive of the proposed mines in the Tarkine. The Tarkine seems to keep expanding daily, he says. “That area’s been mined and prospected for 100 years... It might look pristine but scratch the surface and you find people have been there.”

There is a lot of mineral discovery to be mined yet on the west coast, Darryl says. “What they’ve done up until five years ago with the discoveries have all been on surface indicators. Now with electro magnet fly overs they’re finding ore bodies 300 or 400 metres below the ground. The Mt Read area is probably the richest concentrated geological belt in the world.”


Like a movie set, it was built, people in the main lived happily in the town and then it was closed and taken away.

Savage River however was no fictional town for the 1,500 or so people who lived there between 1967 and 1996. The purpose-built mining village included 250 family houses, a school built for 360 students, a police station, a nurse centre, a fire station, a motel, a service station, shops and a church.

Around 150 ex locals had a chance to mingle and catch up at a reunion on the weekend of 19 and 20 January 2013 in Waratah. Savage River was not a sleepy little hollow, but nor was it a brutal one like its ominous name. It was an eventful town that had an active social life, all required amenities, frequent strikes and even a notorious bank robber.

Alex Damen, the Electrical Supervisor at Grange Resources in Savage River, attended the reunion and has good memories of living in the town. He remembers the day the robber, Carl Synnerdahl, turned up in a Porsche. Anyone remember the 1981 Australian movie, Hoodwink, starring John Hargreaves and Judy Davis? Anyway, this film was based on Carl’s life and how he posed as a blind man to get a lighter sentence and was then forced to keep up the deception.

“He was one of Australia’s most notorious bank robbers,” Alex says. “His wife was the medical doctor and they lived in Savage River for a couple of years. They were nice people, no problem.”

Savage River: Good While it Lasted

Carl did not attend the reunion.

Fiona Harrison, organiser of the reunion, was surprised to hear that an infamous robber lived in the town. Fiona was three when she moved with her parents and three siblings from Luina to Savage River in 1969. Her father, Robert Harrison, started working at the mine and her mother, Dawn, worked as a nurse at the Savage River hospital from 1973 to 1985. Fiona left Savage River in 1986 and moved to Burnie with her daughter. She now lives in Perth, Western Australia and at 46 she is a grandmother and has three adult children.

“The reunion was a fantastic day,” Fiona says. “In my opinion Savage River was a very close-knit community and there were people who lived there from the start to the end.

“I think of Savage River all the time. I often say to my kids, I wish I had brought you up there. The older you get the more I think about it. You didn’t have to lock up your car or your house. You had everybody looking out for your children. If your child did something wrong, you were told.”

A Savage River Facebook page was set up to communicate the reunion and for people to catch up. Some of the discussions have been insightful into what life at Savage River was like. Sandie Walker for example posted:

by Natalie Johnston.

Apprentices from the 70’s catching up at the re-union.


“I had a ball there. Mark and I were newly married, made some great lifetime friends and then we had our first gorgeous son Kurt . I learnt Italian, I did crafts, played sport, swam, was “blue wren” at the local girl guide company, worked at the hospital and was heavily involved in the neighbourhood house beginnings.”

Sarah Onions recalls: “I was only seven when we left and I can only remember school, train/park, pool and hospital for all the times I used to split my head open on and the main street. I can remember we used to build snow men in peoples’ driveways and watch them run over them when they come home. Dad used to play squash.”

In response to questions of who was the first female to work at the mine, Karolina Damen posted:

“My recollection was Gina Innes was the first women truck driver along with Gins Rowlands. The men were hesitant at first and there was a strike as a result. Their view was that there were unemployed union members living up the coast that could have been employed instead of the wives of already employed workers. They were against double incomes when there were families up the coast that were suffering.”

The Facebook page also includes some squabbling, surely reminiscent of any small town community.

For more information and to view some wonderful old Savage River photos go to this link: http://www.facebook.com/groups/12707310029/

Alex Damen: the Electrical Supervisor at Grange

Resources in Savage River

Savage River football team around 1982 never beaten.


Savage River swimming pool.

Peta Forster – MMG Rosebery’s Manager Safety Health Environment and Community.

Peta Forster has some good advice for women wanting to get on in the mining industry.

“I did everything not to attract attention to being female and I encouraged being treated the same as the men,” she says.

“You need to be determined and accept that it takes time to be accepted and respected. It also pays to be very fit.”

Peta, MMG Rosebery’s Manager Safety Health Environment and Community, has worked in the industry for more than 20 years. She grew up in the Pilbara, a mining stronghold, and saw her father start as a Metallurgist and then move into management with positions including CEO of Turbine Components and CEO of Royal Flying Doctors.

Her sister, Donna Rathbone, also carved out a career in the industry. Donna is a mining engineer and is a Mining Manager for Macmahon Pty Ltd in W.A.

Peta was a self-confessed “school dropout” in the late eighties/early nineties when she started working in the survey team for Western Geophysical, a land based oil and gas exploration company. When the company closed its land-based operations after a couple of years and focused on its marine-based exploration, Peta was very keen to work on their ships out of Singapore. She hit a major obstacle, however. As a female, she was not allowed.

Mining Profiles: Peta Forster

Soon after Peta started working for Plutonic at Darlot Gold Mine, an open-cut operation in the goldfields as a field technician in the exploration department, later moving into the mine technical services department for Western Mining at Leinster. When an opportunity arose to join the underground mining team she jumped at it, turning down truck operations given, “that’s where girls get stuck.” Instead she started nippering as a drill rig off sider.

Peta’s completion of an Underground Shift Supervisor’s Certificate of Competency lead to better jobs, such as a shift boss in Karratha, W.A. Her motivation for completing a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment was because she was unable to get somebody from head office to come to site and sign off crew competencies.

Peta met her partner, Andrew, at a mine in Kalgoorlie. A highlight was taking a year off in 2004 and holidaying around Australia with Andrew. She returned to work as a Safety Trainer for Macmahon Pty Ltd in Mt Isa and 18 months later was promoted in an OHS position for Carpentaria Gold in Queensland.

Peta has been in her current position for four years. “Andrew’s from Tasmania and we were already coming here to live when the opening to work for MMG Rosebery came up.”

Andrew took the opportunity to become a full-time stay at home father for their two children, Jack (5) and Nick (3), two years ago when Peta returned to her role post maternity leave. Andrew was employed as a Shift Supervisor for Redpath, the underground contractors for Vedanta’s Copper Mines of Tasmania.

“Andrew has a very close relationship with the children as a result of being a stay at home father,” Peta says. “I would never criticise his cooking or housework! I really appreciate coming home at the end of a long day and having a meal on the table.”

Peta says one of the best things about her job is being able to make positive change, for example in the area of diesel particulates. Diesel particulates have been listed by the World Health Organisation as being carcinogenic to humans at certain levels over prolonged periods of time. This is an issue in underground mines because of emissions from the exhaust of diesel powered machinery and the confined nature of the work environment.

In Tasmania mines have been addressing this matter from a scientific basis – among other things fitting machinery with specialised filters which eliminate or dramatically reduce the emission of particulates from the exhausts into the air underground.

Peta has found plentiful career opportunities in Tasmania. “It’s a smaller pool so there is more exposure and opportunities for mining professionals. For example, I’m regularly involved in assisting the Mines Inspectorate at Work Safe Tasmania and represent MMG Rosebery at the Tasmanian Minerals Council OHS Committee.”

“Mining is a very dynamic industry and you need to be flexible in your approach because the environment is constantly changing and eventually all mineral resources come to an end at some point. In saying that MMG Rosebery is the exception, given it has been operating continuously for 77 years, and this is not the norm in that respect.”


AWU’s Cover Boy: Malcolm Jago

Mal ‘Hollywood’ Jago was a familiar sight during the height of the Australian Workers Union’s Our Tarkine Our Future campaign.

Mal’s image as a bearded middle-aged man looking concerned as he gazed into the distance dominated the AWU’s posters. And then there were Mal’s media interviews and talks at the pro mining AWU rallies.

“The union approached me as I always have something to say and they wanted an ugly old miner for the campaign,” he says. A long hole driller, Malcolm has worked at MMG Rosebery for 31 years. His father and one of his sons also worked at the mine.

Malcolm says he was surprised and thrilled by the success of the rallies in Burnie in November 2012 and Tullah in May 2013 which were attended by over 5,000 people.

“The AWU campaign has been successful and it’s now dormant. We don’t want to be at the forefront.”

“The AWU getting involved in the campaign was all about presenting balance. We wanted people to make up their own mind, which they’ve done.

Malcolm is currently contemplating retirement. He has badly injured knees and will be unable to carry on in his current position. If he stays working he will need to shift into another position that can accommodate his injury.

After 14 years, Malcolm recently retired as the AWU representative at MMG. During this tenure, he travelled to Hobart three times to fight to keep the Rosebery hospital open. MMG now pay half the costs to keep the hospital open.

“MMG has invested at least half a million dollars in the Rosebery community over the past 12 months,” he says. “In my opinion, the mine doesn’t do enough to promote itself and what it does enough. People don’t realise how much the community rely on the mine.”

Malcolm says he will continue to live in Rosebery and do more fishing and holidaying if he resigns. He laughs and denies the suggestion that he might find this difficult after being in the AWU limelight which earned him his ‘Hollywood’ title. He often gets asked if he would contemplate entering politics after his AWU involvement.

“I’ll become a distant memory. I’ve got no desire to go into politics.”


Emily McPhee, Project Geologist

Emily McPhee in the diamond core shed. “This is the Head

Quarter diamond core from the current drilling program at Long Plains,” Emily says. “We collect geological and structural data

that allows us to build a resource model and understand the

geomechanical characteristics of the rock types.”

Grange Project Mining Geologist, Emily McPhee, had something of an epiphany when she realised she wanted to be a geologist.

“I was camping in the middle of the Kimberley when I met two exploration geologists and got talking with them and it stemmed from there …I just knew that’s what I wanted to do,” Emily says.

And so it was that Emily decided to switch careers, and started at the University of Tasmania in Hobart to study geology. Emily completed her Bachelor of Science in Geology at the University of Tasmania in 2010 and started working at Grange Resources at Savage River in September of that year.

Emily manages an exploration team at Long Plains, a magnetic anomaly located 10 km south of the current Savage River mine. The area has had a number of ground and airborne geophysical surveys and limited wide spaced drilling (both diamond and reverse circulation) completed over the last 50 years. If the Long Plains mining lease is approved by the Federal and State governments, mining will start in 2017.

In her role, Emily manages four Grange staff as well as drilling contractors. She finds that her experience as a hairdresser comes in handy, and not because she gets asked to cut hair, but because of the communication skills she learned such as interpreting body language that is so useful when supervising staff.

Prior to university, Emily travelled and worked around Australia for 10 years. Some of her adventures included pearling in Broome, spending time on indigenous communities, bar work, hair dressing and some environmental protesting. As it is, Emily gets some ribbing from her more strongly oriented environmental friends and acquaintances.

Emily McPhee’s Journey to Geology

“They don’t see how I can be passionate about the natural environment and work in an industry that they believe destroys ecosystems that contain threatened species,” Emily says. “My response is that exploration work is sustainable development which takes into consideration natural and cultural values. The industry is regulated by codes of practice (Mineral Exploration Code of Practice) and I am adamant that all people working at Long Plains comply with this code; we work in exploration because we value and enjoy spending time in the bush.

“Grange contracts environmental companies to survey the lease area for Flora and Fauna values and this data implements a better understanding of the ecosystem we are working in. I believe that Flora and Fauna studies would not have been done in this area if it wasn’t for the exploration lease and therefore the values of this environment would not have been captured.”

Emily is supportive of controlled mining in the Tarkine. “Tasmania is a great state to live and work in, but we need more jobs, the younger people are leaving the State to work on the mainland and we need to build a future for Tasmania. I’m not against it, but nor do I think it should be open access to all areas of the Tarkine. There needs to be a balance.”

Saying that, Emily points out that there are large areas of the Tarkine that are not pristine remnant Gondwana rainforests. “Long Plains, for example, was part of a State Reserve that has been logged and had fire go through in the early eighties, so it’s not what it originally was.”

Emily’s future ambitions include continuing to gain experience as an exploration geologist and to eventually work as Geology Manager, like her boss, Roger Hill.


Tony Ferguson

Environmental & Social Responsibility Grange Resources TasmaniaIt is time for mining companies to start ramping up the promotion of their environmental effort, Tony Ferguson believes.

Tony has worked in Environmental and Social Responsibility at Grange Resources for 15 years.

“As an industry we probably dropped the ball a little on promoting our environmental performance in favour of safety performance in comparison to 10 – 15 years ago,” Tony says.

Recently Grange personnel witnessed a white bait run right through the mine reach of the Savage River. This run attracted cormorants and a sea eagle to the mine reach over a period of a week. This is the first time that a run has been seen since Grange took over the Savage River Mine in 1997.

“This is really exciting news,” Tony says. “When you consider that scientific reports showed that the river below the mine was considered biologically dead in 1996 from acid rock drainage and now there are fish such as white bait and trout travelling through the river again it shows you the excellent progress the Savage River Rehabilitation Project (SRRP) is making.”

Tony’s main role was to assist in identifying, locating and managing acid drainage when he started at Savage River 15 years ago. He still has an active role in the SRRP though he’s not on the committee. In the last 18 months Tony’s role has been focused on preparing Grange for the carbon tax.

Tony previously worked in the Chemistry Department at Central Queensland University for 20 years. His Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemistry was very useful in his role of trying to manage acid drainage.

Grange employs the equivalent of four full time environmental scientists within Tasmania. Some of the other environmental projects that Grange is working on or have completed include significant weed management programs, removal and treatment of acid flows from the Savage River such as the North Dump Drain Project where some 15% of the legacy copper load was removed from the Savage River, alkalinity addition from the Broderick Creek flow Through Dump and now the South Deposit Tailings Storage Facility.

Since 1997 the SRRP has worked towards improving the health of the Savage River. Scientific investigations showed that with the addition of Calcium and Magnesium and associated alkalinity the toxicity of Copper reduced for marine organisms. Much of Grange’s environmental works have focussed on adding alkalinity to the Savage River. Reports have shown that this is working and the recent white bait run further reinforces that the Savage River and especially the mine reach is now a modified but healthy river. This allows migration into the untouched upper reaches of the Savage River.

The South Deposit Tailings Storage Facility has the potential to do this in the Main Creek side of the Mine. Main Creek joins the Savage River down stream of the mine. Over recent years Grange has been able to reduce acid impact on Main Creek through the placement of a water shedding cover on B Dump and segregation of flows in the Main Creek valley. The South Deposit Tailings Storage Facility

project has the potential to further improve water quality through the addition of alkalinity.

Grange Resources along with Pitt & Sherry and Shaw Contracting were awarded highly commended awards at the 2011 Australian Water Association Tasmanian Branch Tasmanian Water Environment Merit Awards for the innovative Hydrocarbon Separator constructed on South Lens as part of the Pit Workshop Project.

Early in the design phase of this project Grange identified that the new workshop facilities with transport and storage of diesel could pose an increased risk to the environment. Right from this early planning stage Grange along with the project engineers, Pitt & Sherry spent considerable time in investigating and designing an interceptor able to cope with a significant spill around the mine, protecting the Savage River from any possible impact.


Tony is supportive of mining in the Tarkine. “The Tarkine is recognised as a very large and diverse area. The proposed boundary of the Tarkine is an arbitrary area selected by a group of people and include both pristine and currently or previously mined areas. There’s room for both mining and conservation provided it is properly managed,” he says. He cites Unity Mining Henty Gold mine on the West Coast as an example of sustainable mining right near a world heritage area.

“When the day comes that Henty ceases operation, you would have trouble identifying that anybody had been there,” Tony says.

“The extent of environmental progress is such that acid drainage, for instance, should never be an issue with the proposed new mines,” Tony says. “These days the identification of waste rock types receives as much attention as the identification of ore types right from the exploration stages through to the planning and mining stages.

Tony says he gets frustrated with the misrepresentation of the Green movement. “There is no comparison between proposed mines in the Tarkine and those in the Pilbara. ” The Yandi and Yandicoogina mines in the Pilbara produce in excess of 90 million tonnes of direct shipped ore (DSO) per annum. Grange’s Savage River Mine, the biggest open cut mine in Tasmania, produces around 2.4 million tonnes of concentrate for conversion to pellet at Port Latta.

“The fact is we still need mining,” Tony added. The wire and screens that make up the computers we use, the concrete and steel that forms our infrastructure and even the news papers and books we read have all had a contribution from mining.”

The Savage River Rehabilitation Project is a joint venture between the Tasmanian Government and Grange Resources. It has been held up nationally as leading practice in rehabilitation. It came about because an historical operator left an amount of money with the Tasmanian Government to pay for remediation. However, it was not enough to cover the extensive work. Therefore, the Government and subsequent operators of the mine (now Grange Resources) have done it in partnership, using the mine’s equipment and environmental scientists in a joint program that both makes the money go further and brings in broader expertise. It has been very successful, and continues. It is rare in Australia for a government responsible for historical environmental degradation and a current operator to be working together in this way. However, it is held up nationally as a great example of how things can be tackled cooperatively to extract the best result.


Pragya Gard performs tilak on Karen Marshall by marking her forehead. It is a Hindu gesture of good wishes.

CMT expat families.

Queenstown burst with the colour and energy of one of India’s most popular ceremonies at the annual Diwali function on 26 October.

The 250 staff, families and guests of Vedanta’s Copper Mines of Tasmania’s were dined and entertained with Bollywood dancers, Indian food, fireworks and Indian ceremony.

This is the seventh year CMT has held Diwali in honour of its Indian owners and expatriate staff. Diwali is one of the biggest festivals for Hindus, celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness throughout India. It commemorates the return of Lord Rama from his 14 year long exile and vanquishing the demon-King Ravana. The festival is celebrated for five continuous days, where the third day is celebrated as the “Festival of Lights.”

The Indian families performing Laxmi Puja, a traditional prayer.

Legislative Councillor Ruth Forrest and Marie Whitehead.

Diwali

Indian traditional dance Bollywood style Mr Deepshikha Singh and Aakash Somani from the Bollywood dance school in Melbourne.

Images by Carol Maney.


Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response Committee

Chairman’s Report 2013


The Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response Committee (TMERC) was very active in 2013, meeting five times during the year in addition to a range of other events. The work of the committee broadly encompasses:

• Communication and collaboration (promoting sharing and teamwork within the industry and showcasing the capability of the industry to the wider community);

• Simplification and standardisation (removing unnecessary complexity and making emergency response practices and protocols familiar and predictable state-wide); and

• Pursuit of excellence (continuous improvement to ensure Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response reflects industry best-practice).

Each of these main themes runs through all of the activities undertaken by the committee.

Achievements & Events

Unified Emergency Number

All work was finalised in 2012 and the “555” number went live throughout Tasmanian sites in early 2013. TMERC submitted an entry to the 2013 Work Safe Awards and although not judged a winner received favourable commentary from the awards committee.

TMERC believes that this may be the first public safety award entry by an Australian minerals industry chamber and we were delighted to have facilitated this outstanding cooperative effort amongst Tasmania’s mining and mineral processing companies.

Captains’ and Officers’ Workshop

Once again a 3-day Captains, Vice-Captains and Officers / Person in Control of a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) workshop was held in June. The workshop built on progress made in 2012 and dealt with:

• Mine safety legislation and its application during an emergency response and interpretation of the NSW Mines Rescue Guidelines, adopted in Tasmania, under the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas).

• Standardisation of captain’s reports and Emergency Response (ER) team protocols, including sign-off on a standard captain’s folder layout and content.

• Development of outstanding ER team captains through group scenario training.

Feedback from the event was again positive, reflecting a high degree of ownership and involvement with the work of the TMERC and a desire across the industry to embrace collaboration and mutual aid.

Other Achievements 2013The committee also undertook the following :

• Coordination of joint training activities between sites including shared “rookies” training courses.

• Development of Emergency Response Team member guidelines for fitness requirements and testing.

• Achievement of our long-held goal to standardise the on-site emergency phone.

• Orientation of ERT captains on other sites.

2013 Report

John Lamb, ChairOccupational Health & Safety Committee


Work in Progress

Work continues on a range of activities including:

• Continuation of the orientation of ER team captains to all relevant sites: this ensures that the first time a team captain visits another site is not in an emergency situation.

• Development of a web database/ online mutual aid manual for quick identification and pre-qualification of registered emergency responders.

2013 Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response CompetitionUndoubtedly the big event in the Emergency Response calendar was the 2013 competition, hosted by Unity Mining Ltd Henty Gold Mine, and held on site at Henty and at several locations in Queenstown, allowing enhanced public access.

As in 2011 and 2012, the 2013 event was a two-day combined competition for open pit, underground and mineral processing teams. This year, two combined or “mutual aid” teams competed, one drawn from surface teams and the other from underground teams.

Teams, Events and Results

All teams are to be congratulated and competed effectively and safely thoughout the two days. Ten teams took part, representing Grange Resources (Savage River), Bluestone Tin (Renison), Bell Bay Aluminium, MMG (Rosebery), Vedanta (CMT), Unity (Henty Gold), Cement Australia (Cornwall Coal) and the two combined teams including representatives from Railton, MMG Rosebery, Henty, CMT and Grange Resources.

The following events were scored and included in the calculation of overall placings:

• Search & rescue

• Rope rescue

• Team Skills

• Theory

• First Aid

• Fire fighting

• Confined Space Rescue

In addition, Vehicle Extrication was performed as a training event with teams either scored or coached at their option; while awards were also made for Best Captain and Team Safety among others. The Tasmanian Minerals Council website www.tasmanianmining.com.au contains a list of results.

The element of surprise was a key feature with teams unsure of their next event, its location or its precise timing until they received “the call” on a secure mobile phone.

While the overall winners, Cornwall Coal, are to be congratulated, a highlight this year was the closeness of the result with individual or event awards won by seven of the ten teams competing.


Chairman’s Statement of Thanks

My sincere thanks on behalf of the Tasmanian Minerals Industry to the men and women who serve in Emergency Response teams on sites throughout the state, and to the members of the TMERC who work tirelessly to support them.

John LambCommittee Chair

Thanks to sponsors

TMERC wishes to thank the following major sponsors of the 2013 competition for their generous support:

TMERC also thanks Unity Henty Gold Mine for their generosity in organising and staging the event on site and in Queenstown.

Onlookers including Cr Peter Reid, Deputy Mayor of the West Coast Council, during the confined space event at Henty Gold.

Public Access

This year the firefighting, first aid, vehicle extrication and team skills events were open to public viewing and were held in various locations around Queenstown. In addition, public viewing was possible by appointment at events held on site at Henty Gold.

About TMERC

TMERC is the peak body representing emergency response across the state’s mining and mineral processing industry.

It aims to promote communication, collaboration and the pursuit of industry best practice. It removes barriers and through protocols, systems and standards it supports, facilitates and most importantly de-risks mutual aid.

Through the annual Emergency Response Competition, TMERC is effective in showcasing minerals industry emergency response to the public.

Office Bearers 2013

Chair: John LambVice-Chair: Douglas RalphTreasurer: Jason ClarkeSecretary: Andrew HunterAsst. Secretary: Elmar Van BredaTMC Support: Jayne Roberts Natalie Johnston

www.tasmanianmining.com.au


Cornwall Coal, 2013 winners with Sponsor Anna Scroche from Drager Australia (front left), OHS Manager Louise Williams (front 2nd right), TMERC Chair John Lamb (rear right) and Host Site General Manager Matt Daly (front right). Image: Tasmanian Minerals Council.

Photos by: Jayne Roberts & John Lamb, Tasmanian Minerals Council.



2013 Financials


Statement of Comprehensive Income

For the Year Ended 31 July 2013 2013 2012 $ $

Interest Income 18,232 36,076Membership Subscriptions 448,720 434,386MEG Secretariat Income 5,000 10,000CEO Forum 15,000 -Seminars & Conferences 55,788 57,821Sponsorship 37,092 30,818Rental Income - 6,036

Total Income 579,832 575,137

Less: ExpensesAccounting & Audit Fees 12,985 13,200Amortisation 800 800Bank Charge 1,415 2,738Consultants 25,810 102,439Depreciation 12,118 15,282Education Associated Costs - 16,530Interest Expense - 196Insurance 10,668 9,116Loss on Disposal of Motor Vehicle - 995Meeting Expenses 2,991 4,833Office Supplies & Miscellaneous 22,261 29,839Promotional Expenses 25,155 26,566Rent & Ongoing 127,060 123,395Seminars & Conferences 50,643 46,329Staff Costs 308,644 253,461Superannuation 31,351 56,958Sundry Expenses 527 2,758Telephone & Postage 14,437 13,819Travel & Motor Vehicle 26,459 31,670

Total Expenses (673,324) (750,924)

Surplus/(deficit) (93,492) (175,787)

Other comprehensive income - -

Total Comprehensive Income for the Year (93,492) (175,787)

Tasmanian Minerals Council Ltd

A full version of the Financial Report has been distributed to members and is available from the Secretariat. This extract from the annual financial statements should be read in conjunction with the full version of the report.


Tasmanian Minerals Council Ltd

Statement of Financial Position

As at 31 July 2013 2013 2012 Note $ $ASSETSCURRENT ASSETSCash & Cash Equivalents 3 701,009 710,662Trade & Other Receivables 4 70,754 146,417Other Assets 5 12,287 4,273

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 784,050 861,352

NON-CURRENT ASSETSProperty, Plant & Equipment 7 36,534 44,222Intangible Assets 6 2,400 3,200

TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS 38,934 47,422

TOTAL ASSETS 822,984 908,774

LIABILITIES

CURRENT LIABILITIESTrade & Other Payables 8 54,941 51,150Provisions 9 119,550 85,758Other Liabilities 10 266,800 283,973

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 441,291 420,881

NON-CURRENT LIABILITIESProvisions 9 - 12,708

TOTAL NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES - 12,708

TOTAL LIABILITIES 441,291 433,589

NET ASSETS 381,693 475,185

EQUITYRetained Earnings 381,693 475,185

TOTAL EQUITY 381,693 475,185

A full version of the Financial Report has been distributed to members and is available from the Secretariat. This extract from the annual financial statements should be read in conjunction with the full version of the report.


Crowe Horwath Tasmania is a member of Crowe Horwath International, a Swiss verein. Each member firm of Crowe Horwath is a seperate independent legal entity.


Crowe Horwath Tasmania is a member of Crowe Horwath International, a Swiss verein. Each member firm of Crowe Horwath is a seperate independent legal entity.


Board of Directors

Wayne Bould - President

Wayne is the Managing Director of Grange Resources and the Bonney Group. He was previously Grange’s Chief Operating Officer, and Newmont Mining Corporation’s Director, Business Excellence for its global business operations. Prior to joining Newmont, he had considerable experience as the principal of a management consulting company, in the downstream oil industry with Shell Australia Ltd, and in the manufacture and distribution of timber products with Auspine Ltd.

Scot Clyde – Vice President

Scot has been the General Manager at Vedanta Copper Mines of Tasmania for nine years. He has 28 years experience in the mining industry in Australia, Africa and Latin America and has previously held Mine Manager and General Manager’s positions in gold and base metal operations.

Greg Hannan - Vice President

Greg is the General Manager of BHP Billiton TEMCO. He was previously the TEMCO Production Manager. Greg is a Chemistry graduate of the University of Tasmania and has had more than 30 years experience in the Tasmanian smelting industries. He has held the General Manager’s position at TEMCO for the last nine years.

Matt Daly

Matt is the General Manager of Unity Mining Limited – Henty Gold Mine. Matt is a mining engineer with 35 years experience, including the last 25 years in senior management roles in Australia. His experience is across both underground and open pit operations.


Board of Directors

Kim Denwer

Kim is the Principal Exploration Geologist at MMG and has been in this position for 18 months. He has 27 years exploration experience for a variety of commodities and mineralisation styles in a range of countries and environments. Kim is a Tasmanian geologist and has explored in and around many of the West Coast Tasmanian mines.

Jeremy Kouw

Jeremy is the General Manager at Nyrstar Hobart. He has 29 years experience in mining, mineral processing and recycling industries in Australia, China and Europe. Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Applied Science – Metallurgy, RMIT (1983).

John Lamb

John is the CEO Bonney Group Logistics Solutions. Previously he was Chief Executive of Shaw Contracting; former General Manager at the Rosebery mine in Tasmania and the Century mine in Queensland. His career of 25 years includes senior mining roles in Tasmania, WA and Queensland (both underground and open pit) in gold and base metals as well as civil construction; and he has held various directorships since 1991. John is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Chartered Professional Member of the AusIMM and holds degrees in business, IT and surveying.

Florian Lindner

Florian is the Operations Manager Gladstone (ex Cement Australia, Railton). He has worked in metals, gas and mineral processing industries in Europe and Australia for 15 years. Florian obtained a Graduate Diploma Mechanical Engineer in Austria in 1996 and was awarded the professional title “Ingenieur”/ Engineer (Federal Government, Austria 2003).


Board of Directors

Ben Maynard

Ben is the General Manager of Operations at Grange Resources. He joined Grange in 2009 having worked with the Savage River mine for over 15 years. His operational experience covers management responsibilities in geology, information technology, business improvement and technical services. Ben holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Tasmania, a Graduate Diploma in Computing and is a recent graduate of the Tasmanian Leaders Program.

Ray Mostogl

Ray is currently the General Manager of Bell Bay Aluminium, part of the Rio Tinto Group. Ray has over 30 years experience in the metals industry, which included roles with Rio Tinto in New Zealand and Queensland and before this for BHP Steel and BHP Engineering. Ray holds an Advanced Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Newcastle 1983).

Miles Naude

Miles Naude, former General Manager MMG Rosebery, is the General Manager - Kinsevere; MMG’s copper operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has 22 years in mining experience - 17 years in platinum mining in South Africa and five years in hard rock mining in Australia. Miles has tertiary qualifications in metallurgy, an MBA from the University of Wales, Cardiff and is currently completing his Masters in Mining Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

Megan Scholz

Megan Scholz is the Company Secretary and Chief Financial Officer for Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture Pty Ltd (Renison Tin Mine). She has 11 years experience in the mining industry in both Tasmania and Western Australia, working for Gold Fields and Newmont prior to working in Tasmania. Megan is a member of CPA Australia and holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting).


Board of Directors

John Stanton

John is in his 39th year working for Atlas Copco Construction and Mining. He has worked in his current position as Regional Manager Vic/ Tasmania- for over 25 years. John is a member of AusIMM the Mineral Institute Tasmanian Branch and President of the Institute of Quarrying Australia.


2013 Tasmanian Minerals Council Members

The members of the Minerals Council comprise companies and organisations involved in mining, minerals processing, exploration and supply of services to the industry.

The Tasmanian Minerals Council represents the views of the industry on a range of issues to Government - State and Federal and the public.

The Tasmanian Minerals Council’s membership benefits include access, discounts and sponsorship opportunities to all the main industry and promotional events. Annual events include a two day conference, a business forum, an emergency response competition and Annual General Meeting and members’ dinner. There is also the opportunity for members to seek industry advice from the council.

Membership is open to individuals and organisations. Applications are submitted to the Tasmanian Minerals Council Board for consideration.

Alpha Electrics www.alphaelectrics.com.au

Atlas Copco Australia Pty Ltd www.atlascopco.com.au/auus

BHP Billiton TEMCO www.bhpbilliton.com

BIS Industries Limited www.bislimited.com

Bluestone Mines Tasmania JV Pty Ltd www.metalsx.com.au

Boart Longyear www.boartlongyear.com/

Caterpillar Underground Mining www.cat.com/home

Cement Australia Group www.cementaustralia.com.au

Coffey Mining www.coffey.com/

Cominex

Corporate & Industrial Safety Services

Cromarty www.cromarty.com.au

Dan O’Toole & Associates Pty Ltd

De Bruyn’s Transport www.dbtrans.com.au

Doug Hagen (Hagen Oil)

Edrill Pty Ltd www.edrill.net.au

Finlease Tas Pty Ltd www.finlease.com.au/

Gerathy & Madison Communication www.gerathyandmadison.com.au

GHD Pty Ltd www.ghd.com/australia

GIS/Database Geologist at O.M.I. Pty Ltd

Global Resources Solutions Australia www.grsconsultants.com

Goanna Energy Consulting Pty Ltd www.goannaenergy.com.au

Gradco Pty Ltd www.gradco.com.au/

Grange Resources Limited www.grangeresources.com.au/

Injury Prevention and Management www.ipmsafety.com.au/

Irrigation Tasmania www.irrigationtas.com.au/

John Pemberton

K C Morrison Pty Ltd

Lester Franks www.lesterfranks.com.au/

Lloyds North Pty Ltd www.lloydsnorth.com.au/

Mancala Pty Ltd www.mancala.com.au/

Maydena Sands Pty Ltd www.maydenasands.com.au

MHM Metals Limited www.mhmmetals.com/

MMG Minerals & Metals Group Rosebery www.mmg.com

Net Sea Freight Tasmania Pty Ltd

Nyrstar Hobart Pty Ltd www.nyrstarhobart.com/

Orica Mining Services www.oricaminingservices.com/au

PBE Australia II Pty Ltd www.pbeusa.com/

Pitt & Sherry www.pittsh.com.au/

Raygill Quarry & Mining Supplies www.raygill.com.au/products.html

Rio Tinto Alcan Bell Bay Aluminium www.bellbayaluminium.com.au

Rogers Exploration Services

Ron Gregory Prospecting

Sandvik Mining and Construction www.miningandconstruction.sandvik.com/

SEMF Pty Ltd www.semf.com.au/

Shaw Contracting Pty Ltd www.shawcontracting.com.au/

Shree Minerals Ltd www.shreeminerals.com

Sinclair Knight Merz www.globalskm.com/

Skills Council DMC www.skillsdmc.com.au/

Spaulding Drillers Pty Ltd www.spauldingdrillers.com.au/

Stellar Resources Limited www.stellarresources.com.au/


Strata Products www.strataworldwide.com/australia/news.htm

Tamar Gold www.tamargold.com.au/

Tas Gas Networks www.tasgas.com.au/networks/

Tasmania Magnesite NL

Tasmanian Advanced Minerals Pty Ltd www.tasam.com.au/

TasTAFE www.tastafe.tas.edu.au/

Tasrail www.tasrail.com.au

Tasports www.tasports.com.au/

The Cornwall Coal Company Pty Ltd www.cementaustralia.com.au

TNT Mines Limited www.tntmines.com.au

Unity Mining Limited – Henty Gold Mine www.unitymining.com.au/activities/henty/

Vedanta Copper Mines of Tasmania www.cmt.com.au

Veolia Mining www.veolia.com.au/

Venture Minerals Ltd www.ventureminerals.com.au/

William Adams Pty Ltd www.williamadams.com.au

Life MembersMr Bob Calvert

Mr Roger Martin

Mr Harry Stacpoole

Honorary MembersMr Ron Bugg

Mrs Barbara Willson, Rallinga Mining


Documents

Tasminerals annualreport2013booklet