SURFACE

Surprises on the upside

Brownfield exploration has been the oasis in the desert for those contractors hit hard by the mining industry’s pull-back on outsourced-services spending. Underground work in particular, including mine-development drilling, is keeping companies such as Swick Mining Services and Barminco busy, and their outlook is positive.

Richard Roberts

Barminco CEO Peter Stokes tells Mining Magazine that challenging conditions affecting the resources sector continued in the early part of Fiscal Year 2015 (to June 30 next year), but Barminco is seeing...

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