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Mount Gibson stands down workforce

1st December 2014

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

  

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Iron-ore miner Mount Gibson has stood down the majority of its workforce at the Koolan Island mine, in the Kimberley, in the wake of flooding at its Main pit.

The miner last week went into a trading halt after a further slump in the Main pit seawall interrupted geotechnical repairs at the site. Operations in the Main pit were temporarily suspended last month as a precautionary measure to allow the company to monitor and repair an area of instability in the upper part of the southern pit wall.

The miner has now undertaken an evaluation of the situation, which includes a detailed engineering and technical assessment. While the assessment is under way, the majority of the workforce has been stood down, and were demobilised over the weekend.

The junior said that the stand-down would continue while Mount Gibson progressed its evaluation and assessed ongoing labour requirements.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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