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The Glencore-owned Lady Loretta project is an underground zinc-lead-silver mine located near Mt Isa in north west Queensland. PYBAR was commissioned at the greenfields infrastructure project in 2011 to provide services ranging from portal establishment to point of readiness for mine production. Production had been scheduled to commence in September 2013 with a production rate […]
Aurelia Metals’ Hera underground mine is a high grade gold and base metal project located in western New South Wales. The deposits represent typical “Cobar Style” ore systems, which have a strong historical precedent for large scale, high-grade, long life mining operations. Like most underground mines in Australia, Hera is accessed by a single decline […]
The Osborne-Starra copper-gold mining complex is among the top 20 largest metalliferous underground mines in Australia by tonnes of ore mined. It was also one of the top three largest mining operations in the country to contract out all or the majority of their mining functions. Production concluded in 2015 as the mine reached end […]
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PYBAR’s scope of works at Glencore’s CSA copper mine in New South Wales encompassed mine development and intensive ground support regimes (up to four passes), load and haul of development waste to stope fill areas, and loading of development ore into client trucks as required. The CSA mine is at a depth of 1300m and […]
SCOPE Box cut excavation of Far West portal via drill and blast methods managing a two subcontractor Ground support of box cut with shotcrete and jumbo with PYBAR employees and equipment CONTRACT TYPE Fixed and variable PROJECT STATISTICS Project Term: 1-2 Months Employees: <16 people KEY MILESTONES (to date) Firing of the box cut completed […]
SCOPE Underground decline and level development including rehab, primary development, drive stripping and shotcreting. CONTRACT TYPE Fixed and variable. PROJECT STATISTICS Project Term: 24 months Employees: 43 at peak KEY MILESTONES (to date) Pending mobilisation. KEY PLANT & EQUIPMENT 1 x Jumbo – Sandvik DD420-60; 1 x Loader – Cat R2900G; 2 x Trucks – […]
SCOPE Rehabilitation of the Prince Lyell Decline CONTRACT TYPE Fixed Price PROJECT STATISTICS 2,275m3 of Fibrecrete 8,900 Resin Bolts 500 Cabebolts KEY MILESTONES (to date) Pending mobilisation – 3 month scope of work KEY PLANT & EQUIPMENT 1x DD420 Jumbo 1x Jacon – Combo unit shotcrete/Agi 1x Volvo Wheel Loader L120 IT
SCOPE Life of mine development; and Stoping and diamond drilling. CONTRACT TYPE Cost Plus PROJECT STATISTICS Project Term: LOM; and Employees: 80. KEY PROJECT OUTCOMES Project outcomes, milestones, plant & equipment Key Milestones: Over 16km of development completed (project completion at life of mine mid 2024) KEY MILESTONES Soon to be commenced. KEY PLANT & EQUIPMENT […]
SCOPE Supply labour, plant and material to commence underground operations including portal establishment and development, underground development, and production; Establishment of offices, HV workshop, ablutions, batch plant, electrical infrastructure and sewerage water treatment plant; Decline development using typical jumbo development and recover ore using traditional longhole open stoping methods; and Mining of the decline (5.0mW […]