Mining Monthly - South-flank

South Flank

Yandi starts to wind down to closure

Site employs 600 and has another 150 contractors

28 October 2025

BHP revels in FY25 purple patch despite cloud over Canada potash

BHP buries the bad news on Canada

18 July 2025

South Flank is one of the operations unions have targeted.

Pilbara union battle heats up

AWU ramps up the rhetoric, saying major miners and lobby group running misleading campaign

11 November 2024

Union hits BHP for $10K per worker per year, among other things

Western Mine Workers Alliance sheds light on BHP claim

12 September 2024

The South Flank mine is one of the BHP operations targeted by the WMWA's union agreement push. Photo courtesy BHP

Fears union push for BHP WAIO agreement thin edge of the wedge

Industry concerned it will provide the catalyst for unionisation of the Pilbara

13 August 2024

The 300th Komatsu AHS truck rolls out onto the red Pilbara dust on a Rio Tinto site. Photo courtesy Komatsu

Another robo-truck milestone for Komatsu, Rio Tinto

Little more than a week after announcing an automation milestone Komatsu announces another

09 August 2024

BHP's South Flank goes fully automatic

Convertion to fully autonomous operation three months ahead of schedule

30 May 2023

WAIO to go

Improved productivity, debottlenecking and technology helping WAIO get to 300Mtpa and beyond.

04 October 2022

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