Prominent Hill Australia, SA

Location
130km SW Coober Pedy, SA

Nearest Town
Coober Pedy, South Australia

Client
BHP

Commodity
Copper & Gold

Contract Type
KPI Adjusted Margin Alliance

Contract Duration
November 2010 to June 2025

Scope
Establishing and development of the Malu and Ankata Decline, all level and vertical development, longhole open stoping with paste fill production activities.

Byrnecut has been involved at BHP’s Prominent Hill underground mine since cutting the portal in 2010.

Byrnecut has completed in excess of 80 kilometres of development and produced over 20 million tonnes of copper-gold ore. The project successfully transitioned to an Alliance style contract in 2020.

Byrnecut undertake all underground activities at Prominent Hill including development, longhole drilling and charging, paste fill, stope bogging and fibrecrete batching & application.

The mine utilises large scale underground mining equipment with 21t capacity Sandvik LH621 loaders extracting the ore using remote controlled and autonomous guidance systems.

Sandvik UG haul trucks undertake all underground haulage to the surface portal, where It is re-handled by the open pit fleet.

Prominent Hill is located in the remote arid northern Woomera region of South Australia, and is accessed by gravel all weather road and air transport.

Byrnecut operate the mine 365 days per year, 24 hours per day on a fly-in, fly-out basis from Adelaide. The company employs over 760 people with the majority residing in SA.

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Prominent Hill
Australia, SA

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Development Drills Sandvik DD422i Dual Control / Sandvik DD422iE Dual Control / Sandvik DD421-60C 7
Production Drills Sandvik DL421-15C 5
Cabolter Sandvik DS422i 1
Boggers Sandvik LH621i 14
Trucks Sandvik TH663i 23
Charge-up Units Normet Charmec MC605D Emulsion 3

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