Shovel Hit by Rock

That's some impressive oversize material.

Rockslide into Shovel

From the Aprelevka Gold Mine in Tajikistan, November 2011

Spon Com Shovel

More bad spontaneous combustion.

Highwall failure onto shovel

Flipped Dozer

Stuck Shovel

This shovel has got itself stuck into a good ditch. The operator must have forgotten that his treads weren't pointing the same direction that he was.

Landslip

Another flooded pit

Continuing on with our flooded theme, here's another mine which has been flooded. While not as bad as Middlemount, it's still quite bad.



[Edit May 2010] Here's some extra pictures of the recovery process, sent in by a reader.