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When Dual-Seam Mining Looks Simple on Paper

Recently, our team completed a technical due diligence review on a proposed underground longwall extension designed to sustain metallurgical coal production from an established open pit operation. On paper, the project looked robust. The geology was well understood, the economics were competitive, and the development pathway appeared clear. But when we looked deeper, one issue…

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What is good D&B

What does good D&B look like?

It’s a question I keep coming back to because, in my view, it’s the critical piece preventing many sites from achieving consistent D&B success.   We’ve got access to better data, better tech, and more available training than ever. But in many operations, blast outcomes aren't improving. So why is that? At last week’s ISEE…

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Why Effective Communication Skills Are Key to Business Success

It takes communication to work in a team, and even people working alone have to report to their bosses. If you run a business, you have to tell employees what’s expected of them. Bad communication leads to errors, failure and sometimes lawsuits. Effective communication helps prevent these errors. Here are five reasons why effective communication is important in every business.

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Keeping the team together: strategies to re-engage staff

Never has the modern world been more volatile than at the current time. Anxiety and uncertainty have rocked industries and businesses, in fact, all communities. But now is probably the perfect time to prepare for a return to a more stable working platform and consider ways to get your team re-engaged and ready for a new phase of productivity.

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Recruitment

What I Have Learnt From The Last 1,000 Interviews

Owning and leading a business for over 14 years has taught me a thing or two about interviews and has certainly sharpened my intuition for picking the best candidates. During the 14 years we have hired over 150 people, interviewed around 1,000 people face to face and screened at least 5,000 candidates. So what has been so special about the 3% of people that have applied to us that we actually employed?

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How to Navigate Organisational Change

In today’s more volatile, complex and unpredictable business environment, it is more important than ever that we are equipped with the knowledge and tools to be able to adapt and transform business operations to become more effective and profitable.

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