Mining Challenges

Australian headquartered mining and civil services firm Global Road Technology (GRT) is experiencing a surge in global growth due to its growing reputation as a world leader in dust and erosion control products and strategies across large-scale mining, civil, industrial and agricultural sites. The recent tightening of legislation across Australia regarding air quality caused by mining activity provides further validation to its investment creating world-leading products and refining techniques to suppress dust – meeting some of the most stringent government legislation and controls on the planet.

Our firm’s products, applications and services are nearly all developed within Australia for the purpose of adhering to Australian government guidelines and on dust suppression and are developed to the highest standards for the purpose of aiding our clients in compliance to ensure they avoid fines or other forms of legal penalties, said Mr Grundy.

We made a decision as a business some time ago that wanted to be seen as a global leader in our field and this has meant that our focus when developing a new product or providing a service follows the principles outlined particularly well by the Queensland government when they updated their legislation in 2018. This means that our approach is based around controlling/eliminating dust by engineering controls at the point of generation.

GRT, is a world-leader in the development of infrastructure and process solutions for the mining, civil and agricultural sectors that minimise safety issues, the environmental impact of road building and can be applied across various soil types – making it extremely adaptable – a major reason for its usage within the Australian mining sector.

It has developed a range of innovative chemical additives – GRT: Haul-Loc, GRT: Activate, GRT: Ore-Loc, and GRT: Wet-Loc designed specifically for managing and containing dust for the purpose of protecting workers on mining sites and nearby residents and landholders from airborne dust pollution and disease. For countries with large resource-based economies like Australia, these solutions are in high-demand it allows clients to operate more efficiently whilst protecting staff, communities and the local environment.

For Daniel Grundy it outlines that the firm’s core focus on becoming an industry leader in supporting the mining sector is based around adhering to one core focus – reducing the risk of workers being exposed to hazardous dust particles.

Our products and services are designed for the purpose of reducing the impact of airborne dust on people and operations, Mr Grundy said.

The Queensland state governments legislation in relation to hazard reduction lines up with the way we develop our own solutions – what is the most effective way to eliminate this hazard. For example, you can’t change the nature of coal, but changing the nature of the water sprayed for dust suppression is something GRT can do – capturing dust, eliminates the hazard, and also has the added benefit of saving water in many of the often dry parts of not only Australia but worldwide where much of our mining activity occurs.