Burn your Bridges

Reduce the impact of rock bridges at our Telfer crusher

At our Telfer mine site in Western Australia, a top priority is to keep operations going without major interruptions. After planned maintenance, rock bridges are the single biggest issue preventing more ore moving through the crushers. For one single site like Telfer, the accumulated losses due to rock bridges can regularly surpass $10m per annum.

Overview

Welcome to The Newcrest Crowd.

This two-month online competition invites companies and individuals from around the world to propose solutions that can help avoid, mitigate or resolve rock bridges at Newcrest's Telfer mine site.

The Newcrest Crowd is an ongoing program to work with the best innovators worldwide and identify, develop and implement new solutions for real-world, multi-million dollar applications.

Through these competitions, Newcrest aims to establish ongoing partnerships and work collaboratively on implementing solutions.

About Newcrest

Newcrest is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies and operates mines in four countries.

We focus on long-term value creation with an emphasis on three key value drivers: maintaining low costs, growing reserves and production and using capital efficiently.

Newcrest's mission is to deliver superior returns from finding, developing and operating gold/copper mines. Our vision is to be the Miner of choice™. We will lead the way in safe, responsible, efficient and profitable mining.

http://www.newcrest.com.au/

Key Dates

3 September 18, 00:01 am UTC+0 - Competition starts and full information pack becomes available (to registered participants)
31 October 18, 11:59 pm UTC+0 - Submissions close
Winners will be announced after a judging period of approx 1-2 weeks