Ballarat Mine collapse
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I only saw it today, maybe someone hasn't seen it.
Well I guess we can all point fingers, but I'm not going to do that because I would get banned.
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You need to get out more Old Mate :lol: :lol:Bjay said:
Lucky for you Big Dog mentioned it again :lol: :lol:
From what I read Balmaine Gold is a like a ship without a rudder, Management with little or no mining experience, havent had a underground foreman for 6 months. Management trying to gag employees, not adhering to mine plan trailings storage.
All sounds like the accountants are running the show and trying to cut costs/corners.
I just hope no one gets killed or injured before it gets shorted or shut down,
Isnt this the same mine that some miners had to be rescued by being hoisted up an air shaft after the area they were working in was cut off by another collapse a few yrs back? :/
All sounds like the accountants are running the show and trying to cut costs/corners.
I just hope no one gets killed or injured before it gets shorted or shut down,
Isnt this the same mine that some miners had to be rescued by being hoisted up an air shaft after the area they were working in was cut off by another collapse a few yrs back? :/
Some of those things appear to have occurred in 2021 to the extent of an investigation as to whether they were fit to mine (had to prove it by Oct 2021.From what I read Balmaine Gold is a like a ship without a rudder, Management with little or no mining experience, havent had a underground foreman for 6 months. Management trying to gag employees, not adhering to mine plan trailings storage.
All sounds like the accountants are running the show and trying to cut costs/corners.
I just hope no one gets killed or injured before it gets shorted or shut down,
Isnt this the same mine that some miners had to be rescued by being hoisted up an air shaft after the area they were working in was cut off by another collapse a few yrs back? :/
My impression is that they may be sorting out now, with a new tailings storage being developed, and new local staff, and Hugh Morgan, former CEO of Western Mining, seems to have stepped in to save it.
https://www.afr.com/companies/minin...-ballarat-gold-s-white-knight-20220428-p5ah1w
https://ballaratgoldmine.com.au/our-people/
The rescue up the air shaft was unrelated - same goldfield, former company not the present one, 15 years ago.....it involved the main access decline. This was a more recent minor collapse in a development drive I think.
