Excavator Bench Failure

Dragline Bench Failure at Moura

 I think this happened late last year. Sent in by a reader.

Dozer at Moura

Got this great photo in the mail the other week. It's amazing just how many dozer operators forget where they parked their own car.

Those D11's have poor rear visibility at the best of times, but with the single-tine ripper, there's no way he could have seen that car.

Sent in by a reader. Thanks!

Standing Rear Dumper

That's pretty clever. I've never seen anyone tip out their load without lifting the tray before.

Underwater Rear Dumper

Burned Excavator at Tom Price

 

These great photos were sent in this week by a reader. It's an EX5500 which caught on fire around about New Year's at the Tom Price mine.

Rail Damage at Comet

Continuing on with the flooding news this week. These pictures are from the rail line connecting Comet to Emerald. Incredible amounts of damage.

And a video of Channel Nine News. It shows some additional footage of the Baralaba flood, and some video of the Comet rail line.

Baralaba Flooding

The big news for the last few weeks in mining has been the amazing amount of flooding around Central Queensland. Nearly every mine has been affected in some way. The most prominent of these has been the complete flooding of the Baralaba coal mine, when the Dawson River broke through the levee.

All photos from The Australian newspaper.

Edit: An additional photo showing the pit before the flood:

Dragline Tub Push

 

Pretty impressive effort.

Excavator off bench

Sticking your head in the sand in no way to handle bad news.