Safeguarding conveyor performance in mining and mineral processing, MATO Products sales engineer Keletso Mabula advocates comprehensive conveyor assessments focused on belt cleaners, carryback control and component wear. Proactive inspection of scraper alignment, blade tension, spillage patterns and chute loading conditions is positioned as essential to sustaining throughput and reducing unplanned stoppages on high‑tonnage overland and plant conveyors. The approach emphasises structured condition monitoring and timely maintenance interventions rather than reactive repairs once belt mistracking, excessive dust or material build-up have already escalated.

Mineral Resources (MinRes) is restarting operations at its 100%-owned Bald Hill lithium mine in Western Australia after what it describes as a significant and sustained recovery in lithium prices. The restart follows several months of planning to re-establish safe operating procedures and production systems at the site, located about 50 km from Kambalda in the Eastern Goldfields. For mine planners and contractors, the move signals renewed demand for contract mining, crushing and haulage capacity tied to spodumene output in the region.

Larvotto Resources is progressing a tailings reprocessing and site rehabilitation strategy at the historic Hillgrove antimony–gold project in New South Wales, targeting metal recovery from legacy tailings rather than fresh underground ore. The plan centres on re-treating existing tailings storage facilities using modern processing to extract residual antimony and gold while reshaping and capping the deposits to contemporary geotechnical and environmental standards. For engineers, the project signals further demand for tailings characterisation, stability assessment and water management design on brownfield Australian sites.