Weir Minerals, the mining-focused division of The Weir Group PLC, is a global leader in engineered solutions for comminution, slurry handling and tailings management. Its core product families – including Enduron® high pressure grinding rolls (HPGRs), Warman® slurry pumps, Cavex® hydrocyclones, GEHO® positive displacement pumps and Isogate® valves – are designed to help mines reduce energy use, water consumption and total cost of ownership.

That expertise sits at the heart of Fortescue’s Iron Bridge magnetite project in the Pilbara, Western Australia – a US$2.6 billion investment designed to produce around 22 million tonnes per annum of high-grade magnetite concentrate from an orebody 145 km south of Port Hedland.  Fortescue challenged Weir Minerals to help deliver one of the world’s most energy- and cost-efficient magnetite plants, moving away from conventional, power-hungry tumbling mills. 

In 2019, Weir secured a record £100 million order to supply 12 Enduron® HPGRs and GEHO® pumps to Iron Bridge – the world’s largest HPGR installation in an iron ore application. The HPGR-based flowsheet cuts grinding energy by at least 30% versus traditional circuits and significantly reduces wet tailings, delivering major savings in both power and water for Fortescue.

This was followed in 2020 by a £95 million aftermarket contract for components and service over seven years, taking Weir’s total Iron Bridge order book to more than £200 million. The aftermarket scope spans Enduron HPGRs, GEHO and Warman pumps, Cavex hydrocyclones and Isogate valves, underpinning high availability in one of the world’s most advanced magnetite operations. 

To support Iron Bridge and other Pilbara mines, Weir is establishing a new service centre in Port Hedland, providing local repair, rebuild and field-service capability and creating new employment and training opportunities, with a particular focus on Aboriginal participation in the mining workforce. 

For Fortescue, the collaboration with Weir Minerals at Iron Bridge is about more than equipment supply. The co-developed HPGR flowsheet – described by Weir as the first large-scale plant of its kind without tumbling mills – showcases how close OEM–operator partnerships can unlock step-change reductions in energy, water and carbon intensity across the magnetite value chain. For Weir Minerals, Iron Bridge stands as a global reference site for sustainable, high-performance comminution – and a clear example of the role it plays in making modern mining more efficient and more responsible.


 

Fortescue Head Office

Ground Floor, 256 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000

Phone: +61 8 6218 8888

Fenner Dunlop Australia, now operating under the Fenner Conveyors banner, is one of the country’s leading providers of complete conveyor solutions for mining and heavy industry. As a Michelin Group company, Fenner designs, manufactures, installs and services conveyor systems “from head to tail”, combining Australian-made belting, engineered structures, drive and control systems, and on-site services into one integrated offer. 

 

Over more than a century of conveying heritage – and decades on the ground in Australia – Fenner has built a reputation for keeping critical bulk-handling assets running safely and efficiently. Its portfolio spans conveyor belting, rollers, pulleys, modular and overland conveyors, belt-handling equipment, condition monitoring technologies and shut-down services, backed by one of the largest service-centre networks in the Australian resources sector. 

 

A major step in that capability was the acquisition of Australian Conveyor Engineering (ACE) in 2012. ACE added deep mechanical and electrical engineering expertise, allowing Fenner Dunlop Australia to deliver fully engineered conveyor systems – from concept and modelling through to fabrication, installation and commissioning – under a single brand. This “engineered conveyor solutions” approach means miners can work with one partner across the full life of their conveyor assets.  
 

That capability is on show at Newmont Gold’s Tanami operations in the Northern Territory. As part of a major underground mine expansion at Tanami, ACE engineered and supplied two advanced stacker conveyor systems to support increased production, using conveyor rollers and belting from across the Fenner group.  These stackers help Newmont safely stockpile ore underground and at surface while maximising throughput in a remote, high-demand environment.
 

Fenner Dunlop Australia also appears as a registered supplier on the Tanami Expansion 2 (TE2) project via the Industry Capability Network (ICN) Gateway, underlining its role in the broader upgrade of the mine’s materials-handling infrastructure. While individual work packages vary, Fenner’s involvement typically combines Australian-manufactured conveyor products with on-site engineering, installation and maintenance support – helping operators like Newmont lift capacity, reduce downtime and manage conveyor risk over the long term.  
 

From steel-cord belting and intelligent monitoring systems to turnkey conveyor projects in some of Australia’s harshest conditions, Fenner Dunlop Australia’s contribution to Tanami reflects what it does best: keeping critical production conveyors moving, safely and reliably, for the life of the mine


Head Office - Fenner Conveyors
268 Geelong Road, West Footscray, VIC 3012
Phone : +61 (03) 9680 4500

Brokk Australia is the regional arm of the world’s leading manufacturer of remote-controlled demolition robots, supplying, servicing and supporting Brokk machines across Australia and New Zealand.  From its base in Morphett Vale, South Australia, the company backs mining, tunnelling, construction and heavy industry with specialised robots designed to work where it’s too tight, too hot or too hazardous for people and conventional plant. 
 

At the heart of the offer is a compact, electric-powered carrier with a three-arm boom and a wide choice of attachments – breakers, rock splitters, drills, buckets, scaling tools and more. On underground mining jobs, a single Brokk can take on brow and face scaling, secondary breaking, shaft and ore-pass cleaning, shotcrete support work and general excavation. Remote radio control keeps the operator well back from the face, out of the fall-of-ground zone and away from fumes, noise and vibration, while still delivering the breaking power of much larger machines. 

Brokk machines are built for the realities of deep mines: load-balanced outriggers for stability, robust tracks and well-protected cylinders, plus an all-electric drive that eliminates exhaust emissions in confined headings.  For Australian clients this translates into higher utilisation in heat- and dust-prone stopes, faster turnaround on re-entry and rehabilitation tasks, and a clear uplift in safety performance.

Industry Capability Network records show Brokk Australia Pty Ltd listed as a supplier on Newmont’s Tanami Expansion 2 (TE2) project in the Northern Territory, underlining the brand’s relevance to high-specification underground gold operations. In remote mines like Tanami, where every hour of hoisting time and every re-entry to the face is heavily scrutinised, Brokk’s remote-controlled robots offer project teams a way to mechanise risky work, shorten shutdown windows and keep people out of harm’s way.

Beyond the core robot fleet, Brokk Australia also distributes complementary products such as Aquajet hydrodemolition systems, Sherpa mini-loaders, Twinca dumpers and Vacuworx lifting solutions – allowing sites to build integrated, highly mechanised demolition and materials-handling packages from a single supplier.  These are backed by Australian workshop capability, parts, training and service agreements aimed at maximising uptime over the full life of each machine. 

For owners and contractors at Tanami and across the gold sector, Brokk Australia positions itself not just as an equipment vendor, but as a long-term partner in making underground work safer, smarter and more productive.

 

Brokk Australia

Visiting address:

9 Colorado Court

Morphett Vale

SA 5162 Australia

For sales enquiries: sales@brokk.com.au

Phone: +61 08 8387 7742

Specialists in winches, winders & heavy engineering – Australian-owned since 1974

Australian Winch & Haulage Co. Pty Ltd (AWH) is a specialist winch, winder and heavy engineering company based in Smithfield, Western Sydney. From our 7,800 m² workshop we’ve been building, hiring and overhauling hoisting equipment since 1974 for mining, tunnelling, marine, offshore and defence projects.

When you’re sinking a shaft, cutting a tunnel, running a dredge or holding a vessel on station, the hoisting system can’t let you down. AWH combines practical engineering, a workshop built for heavy gear and a large winch and winder hire fleet to keep projects moving and in spec.

We’re not a general machine shop. Everything revolves around winches, winders, power units and the steelwork that goes with them – man-riding and kibble winders, dredge winches, headframes, reelers and sheaves. Our team of project managers, engineers, equipment managers, fitters and machinists know both the workshop and site, so we can own the full hoisting package, not just loose components.

Proven on tough Australian projects

Over the years AWH has supplied hoisting equipment and services to many major operations, including:

• Shaft sinking and upgrades – friction, emergency egress and kibble winders, headframes and guides for underground mines.

• Underground gold and base-metal mines – projects at Ernest Henry, Cadia, Olympic Dam and Tanami.

• Marine, defence and offshore – constant-tension dredge winches, mooring, mine-sweeping, anchor-handling and luffing winches with dedicated power units.

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Tanami Expansion 2 – Koepe hoisting for a remote gold mine

A recent key project is Tanami Expansion 2 (TE2) for Newmont Mining Services. In 2024 AWH was awarded a major contract for the manufacture and supply of Koepe winder skips and a personnel cage for the remote underground gold operation.

The work brought together AWH’s full capability – detailed mechanical and structural design; heavy fabrication and machining in the Smithfield workshop; shop testing under our ISO 9001 quality system; and the supply of critical spares to support long-term operation. TE2 shows how AWH approaches modern hoisting work in Australian conditions: start with the duty, engineer the equipment around it, and keep as much of the process as possible under one roof.

On every job AWH takes the work from engineering through to testing and site support, so there is one party responsible for the hoisting system from top to bottom.

Winch & Winder Hire

• Shaft and kibble winders

• Man-riders and service winches

• Constant-tension and mooring winches

• Power units, control cabins and ancillary equipment

Available for short- and long-term projects in mining, tunnelling, marine and offshore environments.

Project Hoisting Systems

• Complete hoisting packages – winch or winder, headframe, sheaves and power units

• Temporary and permanent shaft equipment

• Emergency egress systems

• Engineering, fabrication, assembly, testing and commissioning support
   

Manufacturing & Heavy Fabrication

• Design and manufacture of winches and winders

• Headframes, reelers, sheaves and custom steelwork

• Very large fabrications, including Sub-Arc welding

• Overhead crane capacity up to 60 t for heavy assemblies
  
   

Equipment Overhauls, Rebuilds & Upgrades

• Strip, inspect and rebuild existing winches and winders

• Brake, drive and control system upgrades

• Life-extension and compliance modifications

• Dynamic testing of winches up to 100t
   

Workshop Services

• Large-capacity lathes, vertical and horizontal borers

• Heat treatment – stress relieving and normalising

• Grit blasting and large enclosed paint booth

• Electrical cabinet construction and fault-finding

These capabilities allow AWH to keep critical project equipment in service and performing as designed.
 

Where we work

• Underground and surface mining

• Shaft sinking and tunnelling

• Dredging and marine construction

• Offshore oil & gas and mooring systems

• Defence and naval support

• Heavy civil and infrastructure projects
  
   

Capability & compliance

• ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system

• Fabrication in accordance with MDG41, DNV, Lloyd’s, ABS, MIL and AS 1418 requirements

• Accredited and qualified welders to AS 1554

• 7,800 m² factory plus 1,000 m² office and stores in Smithfield, NSW

• Large overhead crane coverage and heavy machining capacity
  
   

Contact

Planning a shaft, tunnel, dredging or offshore project?
Talk to the winch and winder specialists first.

Australian Winch & Haulage Co. Pty Ltd
227 Woodpark Road, Smithfield, Sydney NSW 2164, Australia
Tel: +61 (0)2 9725 2772
Email: sales@auswinch.com.au