RCT – Powered by Epiroc has deployed its Pedestrian Alert System (PAS) across a northwest Queensland mining and smelting complex to reduce collision risk between heavy mobile equipment and on-foot workers. The PAS uses personnel tags and machine-mounted detection units to identify people within configurable exclusion zones around loaders, trucks and other plant, triggering in-cab alarms and external visual warnings. Integration with existing fleet and radio infrastructure allows site-specific zoning in high-traffic areas such as crusher feed pads and smelter transfer bays, targeting known near-miss hotspots.

Weir has secured an order to supply the primary crushing circuit for Brightstar Resources’ Laverton Processing Plant, designed for 1.5 Mt/y throughput at the Goldfields gold project in Western Australia. The package includes Weir’s recently upgraded ENDURON® ET series jaw crusher, forming the core of the new circuit. Delivery in the March quarter of 2026 will be critical for front-end comminution performance, influencing downstream milling energy demand and gold recovery.

Queensland has committed $15 million from the Queensland Investment Corporation’s Critical Minerals Fund to fast‑track redevelopment of the historic Mount Chalmers copper mine, 17 km east of Rockhampton. The funding backs QMines’ plans to restart the long‑idle volcanogenic massive sulphide operation, targeting copper, gold, zinc and silver in a brownfield setting with existing underground workings and surface disturbance. For geotechnical and mine planners, the move signals state support for re‑entering historic stopes and upgrading legacy infrastructure rather than greenfield copper builds.