Agenda
CONFERENCE DAY ONE
MONDAY 25th OCTOBER 2010
7:30 Registration and morning coffee
8:30 IIR Welcome
8:40 Opening remarks from the morning Chair
Bruce Robertson, Regional Manager, Underground Technical Services, Anglo American Metallurgical Coal
8:50 Outlook for thermal and metallurgical coal
- Price trends
- Price drivers
- Supply and demand
9:20 Corporate trends in the australian coal industry
Peter Lynch, Former Managing Director, Waratah Coal
9:50 INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY: Automating Africa
The presentation will give a bit of background about the Colliery and the South African Longwalling environment. It will further discuss how New Denmark went about scoping, tendering, purchasing, manufacturing, testing and commissioning underground a Longwall in a period of two and a half years. The diffi culties and trials of training a semi literate workforce to come to terms with today's technology. The success achieved with start up and production YTD. The gains and benefi ts of being in partnership with Joy and their Smart Service initiative.
Rowan Youell, Longwall Engineer, New Denmark Colliery, Anglo Coal South Africa
10:30 Morning tea break
11:00 The control and automation of longwall mining equipment
Ian Rea, Product Manager Longwall Control, JOY Mining Machinery
11:30 CASE STUDY: Narrabri coal operations
Greig Duncan, General Manager, Narrabri Coal Operations, Whitehaven Coal
12:10 CASE STUDY: Nucoal Resources and Doyles Creek Mining Project
Update from the Doyles Creek Mining Project including the development of the Training Facility as an Industry leading initiative.
The Mine Safety and Training Facility is an initiative of Doyles Creek Mining Pty Ltd and will draw on the expertise and capabilities of the University of Newcastle, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Services and the Hunter Valley Training Company.
The facility will help to address the critical skills shortage currently being experienced in the mining sector and the wider community.
Glen Lewis, Managing Director, NuCoal Resources NL
12:50 Lunch for delegates and speakers
Proudly sponsored by Hard Metals Industries and Quarry Mining
1:50 Introduction of afternoon Chair
Brant Wright, Director of Sales and Marketing Australasia, JOY Mining Machinery
2:00 CASE STUDY: Wallarah 2 Coal Project: Planning and perseverance
- A snapshot of the project history: 1995-2010
- What have been the challenges and how are they being met?
- What special approaches for the mine plan and surface facilities makes Wallarah 2 Coal "a cut above"
- The road ahead: Approvals and development
Peter Smith, Environment and Community Manager, Wallarah 2 Coal Project
2:40 CASE STUDY: Getting the most out of what we've got
An analysis of growth and productivity changes of Longwall mines.
Jim Middleton, Chief Engineer - LW Mines, BHPBilliton
3:10 Afternoon tea break
3:40 CASE STUDY: Continuous haulage system at the Cook Colliery
Bernard Vandeventer, Site Senior Executive, Cook Colliery, Caledon Resources
4:20 CASE STUDY: Improving roadway development
Paper will explore using lean methods to improve roadway development performance.
Greg West, Managing Director, Farthing West Pty Limited
4:50 Closing remarks from the Chair
5:00 Conference drinks
6:30 Official conference dinner at LINDEMAN'S® Hunter Valley
Sponsored by JOY MINING MACHINERY
