NSW Resources hosts a variety of industry and educational events. Where a recording or copy of the presentation is available, they have been provided below.
2024 events
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar (EESS) - 6-7 November
To view the full series of presentations from the 2024 Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar (MEMSS) - 23-24 October
To view the full series of presentations from the 2024 Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar (MESS) - 7-8 August
To view the full series of presentations from the 2024 Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Exploration in the House - 10 May
New data, new exploration futures
| Title | Author | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| Geological Survey of NSW: a year of achievement | Phil Blevin | View (PDF, 6.34 MB) |
| Critical minerals prospectivity mapping using generative AI | Dietmar Müller | View (PDF, 6.04 MB) |
| The Macquarie Arc: recycling, evolving, persisting – new geochemical and geochronological evidence | David Forster | View (PDF, 3.12 MB) |
| Peralkaline volcanic-hosted critical metal resources in NSW: what they are, why they form, and how to find them | Brenainn Simpson | View (PDF, 7.79 MB) |
| New ways to present old data: the Cobar drillhole and atlas compilation project | Chris Folkes | View (PDF, 7.18 MB) |
| Unlocking exploration data from DIGS: Annual Report Release Policy (ARRP) Data Digitisation Project | Bronwyn Witham | View (PDF, 1.14 MB) |
| The Geological Survey of NSW statewide geophysics data program | Astrid Carlton | View (PDF, 5.52 MB) |
| AEM in the search for minerals and water: Geoscience Australia’s AEM acquisition programs in the far west of NSW | Yusen LeyCooper | View (PDF, 2.89 MB) |
| New developments in the geology of the Canbelego region: insights from geophysics, geochronology and field mapping | Mark Eastlake | View (PDF, 18.16 MB) |
| New constraints on the subsurface structure and geological evolution of the Cobar Basin and Hermidale Terrane | Luke Mahoney | View (PDF, 9.32 MB) |
| New datasets and functionality available in MinView | James Ballard | View (PDF, 3.18 MB) |
Other Resources Regulator presentations
Mine Safety High Visibility Campaign 2024 (PDF, 5.29 MB)
Briefing Session – Mechanical engineering 2024 (PDF, 1.34 MB)
Small Mines Roadshow 2024 presentations
Maintaining current practising certificates for holders 2024 webinar
Maintaining current practising certificates for mine operators 2024 webinar
2023 events
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar (EESS) - 8-9 November
To view the full series of presentations from the 2023 Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar (MEMSS) - 18-19 October
To view the full series of presentations from the 2023 Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar (MESS) - 2-3 August
To view the full series of presentations from the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Other Resources Regulator presentations
Underground supervisor webinar
Surface coal supervisor webinar
Councils/Forests NSW NPWS presentation (PDF, 5.84 MB)
Small Mines Roadshow 2023 Presentations
Underground Coal Mechanical Engineers' Forum March 2023 Presentations
Plant Registration Forum 2023 Presentations
Collision Avoidance Forum 2023 Presentations
Mining Engineering Manager Open-Cut Forum Q1 2023 Presentations
2022 events
Mining Engineering Managers' Safety Seminar (MEMSS)
To view the available video presentations from the 2022 Mining Engineering Managers' Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar (MESS)
To view the available video presentations from the 2022 Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Other Resources Regulator presentations
2021 events
Exploration in Another House
From data to maps to apps: what's new in NSW
Available video presentations of Exploration in Another House 2021.
| Title | Author | Slides | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geological Survey of NSW update | Kevin Ruming | View (PDF, 3.68 MB) | View |
| Exploring for the Future - Expanded and Extended | Karol Czarnota | View (PDF, 16.7 MB) | View |
| Key and critical minerals in New South Wales | Phil Blevin | View (PDF, 8.3 MB) | View |
| Alteration beyond sight: the McPhillamys project in hyperspectral 3D | Joel Fitzherbert Karen Montgomery |
View (PDF, 19.44 MB) | View |
| Latest MinEx CRC results in Cobar and their application to exploration | Chris Folkes | View (PDF, 15.54 MB) | View |
| Integrating geophysics to provide the big picture | Sam Matthews | View (PDF, 5.33 MB) | View |
| From maps to apps: what's new in NSW | Trisha Moriarty | View (PDF, 6.08 MB) | View |
| Cooperative Drilling round 3 update | Michael Hallett | View (PDF, 5.69 MB) | View |
2020 events
Exploration NSW – webinar series
| Title | Author | Videos |
|---|---|---|
| Exploring NSW with the Geological Survey of NSW | Chris Yeats | View |
| The challenges and opportunities (and the need) for mineral exploration in NSW | Richard Schodde | View |
| Results from the largest airborne electromagnetic survey ever flown in NSW | Astrid Carlton | View |
| Cobar AEM: the data, interpretation and 3D modelling | Karen Montgomery | View |
| Overview of mineral potential mapping in NSW | Phil Blevin | View |
| Mineral potential mapping in the central Lachlan Orogen | Peter Downes | View |
| Using MinView from project generation to mineral discovery | Kim Marchiori & Sam Matthews | View |
Small Mines Health and Safety Roadshow
- Agenda (PDF, 139.61 KB)
- Welcome and introduction
- Legislation updates
- Slinging and lifting equipment
- Reviewing your SMS
- How the Regulator communicates with the industry
- Feedback and consultation
- Dust safety and health surveillance
- Learning from disasters
- Incident reporting to the Regulator
- Occupational hygiene monitoring of dust
- Small mines report card
- Explosives awareness
2019 events
Exploration in The Rocks
| Title | Author | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| The role of GSNSW in 21st century exploration | Chris Yeats | View |
| Seamless Geology: working under pressure in the Lachlan Orogen | Chris Folkes | View |
| Pyrite, palaeomagnetism, plates and prospectivity in the Lachlan Orogen | Bob Musgrave | View |
| Riverina of gold – historical activity and future potential | Cait Stuart | View |
| Driving data back to the future | Keith Gates | View |
| Getting to the bottom of the Bancannia Trough | Larissa Gammidge | View |
| Beyond copper - strategic metals in NSW | Lee Scott | View |
Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar (MEMSS)
To view the available video presentations from the 2019 Mining Engineering Managers Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Presentation slides
- Wilpinjong autonomous dozers - Peter Grosvenor and Nicholas Galloway-Smith
- Wilpinjong causal investigation - Owen Barry
- Dozer safety - Bill McGlynn
- Implementation of autonomous haulage at Maules Creek Mine - Chris Bedggood
- Regulatory approach to autonomous mining (Electrical) - Owen Barry
- Regulatory approach to autonomous mining (Mechanical) - Ben Withers
- Dams safety legislation - Chris Salkovic
- The culture of hydraulic safety - Kyle Probert
- Critical controls - Mark Smith
- Maintaining dust controls - Mark Shepherd
- Future direction of electrifying fleet at depth at the CSA Mine - Chris Hamilton
- Managing risks from underlying workings - Jon Degotardi
- Performance and improvement - Rob Cunningham
- Human organisational factors and automation - how human factors can derail automation - Kylie Newton
- Automation and human factors - Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
- The standardised subsidence information management system - Gang Li
- Anatomy of mine failures - the human factor and the lessons - Tim Sullivan
- Introduction of real time environmental monitoring at Dargues Gold Mine - Andrew Rouse
- Emergency Management - Matt U'Brien
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar (EESS)
To view the available video presentations from the 2019 Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Presentation slides
- Electrical Engineering 2019 - Owen Barry
- Causes of mine disasters and lessons learnt - Alaster Wylie
- Irony of automation - Dr Sean Brady
- Lightning safety at mines - Bill Carman
- Minor shock, Major consequences - Assoc. Professor Chris Andrews
- Automation and human factors - Professor Robin Burgess-Limerick
- Implementation of autonomous haulage at Maules Creek Mine - Chris Bedggood
- Renewable energy effects on the supply network - Graham Merrick
- Earthing of medium voltage generators in large cable networks - Jason Mayer
- Avoiding unexpected failures - ageing, assessment and management of high voltage oil filled transformers - Phillip Reilly
- Moranbah North Mine 3.3kV Longwall AFC variable speed drive case study - Tim Wylie
- Using data to embrace technology - Kent Flaherty
- Metropolitan Mine gas inundation causal investigation - David Gordon
- Introduction of wireless blasting - Tony Campbell
- Rapid earth fault current limiters - Mark Mills
- Maintenance of competencies update - Andrew Palmer
Site Safety and Health Representatives Seminar
- Airborne dust update - Mark Shepherd
- Autonomous mining equipment - Owen Barry
- Central Assessment Unit - Steve Bentham
- Control focused inspection tools - Mark Smith
- Emergency planning - Matt U'Brien
- Fires on mobile plant - Ross Stutchbury
- Industry update - Electrical presentation - Craig Harris
- Metropolitan Colliery gas incident - Dave Gordon
- Mobile plant rollovers and collisions - Bill McGlynn
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar (MESS)
To view the available video presentations from the 2019 Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar, visit our YouTube channel.
Presentation slides
- Mechanical Engineering 2019 - Ben Withers
- Where Glencore Assets Australia stands - Mark Winchester
- Understanding the hazards at your mine and an enforceable undertaking - Clint Maynard
- Collision management risk evaluation for mobile equipment - Chris Doran
- ACARP project to industrialise wall-flow DPF technology for diesel engines used in underground coal mining - Nick Coplin
- Critical risk and control frameworks - James Ritchie
- Mechanical failure case studies - Roger Costanzi
- Where do I stand for fire protection on mobile and transportable equipment and PFAS foam ban? - Kristian Bischoff
- Risk visibility - identifying the hazards - Mark Fogarty
- Demolition of a former mine site - Luke Egan and David Wood
- Elastic springback in plates - Theo Kahl
- Managing the risk of falls from mobile plant - Carly Clifford
- What is my level of airborne dust awareness? Where do I stand? - Mark Shepherd
- Application of high-energy micro-mist technology - Jon Roberts
- Understanding the cause - Alan Burns and Gerard Chitty
- Where do I stand? Earthmoving machinery access systems - Osama Ali
- The culture of hydraulic safety - Kyle Probert
- Learning from disasters - John Flint
2018 events
Exploration in Another House
| Title | Author | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| Unlocking NSW mineral potential – GSNSW's vision for the next decade | John Greenfield | View |
| Forensic detection of mineral systems through cover | Rob Hough | View |
| Understanding exploration in NSW – planning for the future | Kim Marchiori | View |
| Seamless Geology of NSW – laying the foundation for new resource discovery | Liann Deyssing | View |
| Tin sheds and fields of gold – exploration implications from the East Riverina Mapping Project | Phil Gilmore | View |
| The Magnificent Seven – reducing exploration risk in the southern Thomson Orogen | Chris Folkes | View |
| Raising public awareness of geological resources – our most important new frontier | Simone Meakin | View |
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar (EESS)
Presentation slides
- A breakdown and assessment of a 3.3kV back to back failure in an underground mine - Peter Every-burns
- Respirable Crystalline Silica - It's not just at the coal face - Mark Shepherd
- Upcoming changes to AS/NZS2290.1, AS/NZS3800 and HB239 - Tim Webster
- Back to basics for incident investigation - Justin Ludcke
- Safe and Cybersecure Autonomous Mining - Marcus Punch
- Vehicle interaction control effectiveness - Tim Gray
- Gas detection: back to basics - Ian Webster
- 'The cart before the horse' syndrome - How legacy EEMSPs negatively impact EECPs at mines - Bernard Gittens
- A guide to performing arc flash hazard calculations - Brad Gradwell
- Back to basics - should I worry about a cyber attack on my plant? - Keerthy Mysore
- Use of large storage batteries to manage demand at a mine - Mark Mills
- The process of accident or incident investigation - Bipin Parmar
- Mine site powerlines (with a focus on inspection and maintenance) - Mark Spinks
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar (MESS)
Presentation slides
- Known risks known controls - Shayne Gillett
- Tyresafe Australia - Adam Gosling
- Successfully controlling diesel exhaust exposure through emissions based maintenance - Jennifer Hines
- High pressure water jetting - Will Lee
- Why corrosion matters in underground coal mines - Cindy Liu Scott
- High pressure injection injuries - Dr Sean Nicklin Caution: Contains graphic images
- Fires on mobile plant - Jeremy U'Brien & Ross Stutchbury
- Fatigue and fracture of safety criitical equipment - Simon Walker & Steve Penniment
- Five years of recognising ExDES overhaul workshops - Julian Wilson
- Evolution of risk management - Jim Joy
- Effect of boron contents on steels - Sasanka Sinha
- Well integrity lifecycle - Santos
- Targeted risk assessment program update - Greg Connolly
- Situation Awareness - Jim Knowles
- Safety and isolation for conveyors into the future - Edmond O'Donovan
- Inspection techniques - Peter Torok
2017 events
Exploration in the House
| Title | Author | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| The Geological Survey of New South Wales: promoting opportunities for discovery | Chris Yeats | View |
| The coming technology-enabled revolution in mineral exploration: "prospecting drilling" | Richard Hillis | View |
| Geoscience for your information: new products, services and data released by the Geological Survey of NSW | Sam Wilkin | View |
| Exploring in NSW: the optimist's perspective | Paul Dale | View |
| Cover and crust: integrating seamless and 3D geology | Phil Gilmore | View |
| Crashes and flashes: deep crustal geophysics for resource prospectivity | Ned Stolz | View |
| High heat flow, skarn formation and mineralisation in the eastern Cobar Basin: a magmatic driver for mineralisation? | Phil Blevin | View |
| Seismic acquisition in the Darling Basin: potential applications for mineral exploration in western NSW | Krystian Czado | View |
Electrical Engineering Safety Seminar (EESS)
Presentation slides
- Opening address - Anthony Keon, Chief Compliance Officer NSW Resources Regulator
- Significant incident review 415V arc flash - Michael Wood Northparkes Mine
- Complexity in integration - high voltage and ventilation systems - Warwick Young, Appin Mine
- High voltage truck protection and fire prevention - Paul Edwards, Peabody Energy
- Managing earthing hazards around pole top transformers at mines and quarries - John Derricott Zero Sequence Earthing
- Electrical protection in mines - John Ainsworth, formerly of Ausgrid
- The psychology of risk - Dave Whitefield, People and Risk
- Are your gas detectors actually working? Tim Wylie
- Discussing the human factors of incident investigation - Nicole Gray, Keil Centre
- Uninterruptable power supply installations at mines - Murray Timpson, Slam Engineering Consulting Pty Ltd
- Can we make mining operations immune from lightning induced explosions - Darren Woodhouse, Safearth Consulting
- Getting up close with your personal protection - the low down on RCDs - Bernard Gittins, Resources Regulator
- NSW Practising certificates and the maintenance of competence scheme - Tony Linnane, Resources Regulator
- Would a Wannacry make the industry wanna cry? - Keerthy Mysore and Dr John Lear, AKJE Cyber
- Electrical engineering control plans - building on a valid control framework - Peter Standish, Operational Risk Management
- The evolution of isolation - Mark Spinks, FLSmidth Pty Ltd
- High voltage megger electric shock - Omer Saeed, Newcrest Mining Pty Ltd
- Proper control plan assessment and the impact of high efficiency motors - David Pilt, NHP Electrial Engineering Products Pty Ltd
- Annual report card - Owen Barry, Resources Regulator
Mechanical Engineering Safety Seminar (MESS)
Presentation slides
- Changing world of maintenance - Shane Diddy, AXYS
- Caterpillar's journey to understanding the invisible threat of fatigue - Rodney Mudford, Caterpillar Safety Services
- NSW Coal mines airborne dust monitoring framework - Mark Shepherd, Coal Services
- New interest in old enemy - rediscovering dust disease in mining - Dr David Meredith
- Risk Homeostasis Have you thought about this? - Tony Cartwright, Innosafe
- Mobile plant - the application of standards and guidelines for access systems to manage fall from height - Peter Berkholz and Tony Smith CMSE and Resources Regulator
- Tech tech boom, safety and the demise of the worker - Sarah-Jane Dunford, Riskology
- Mechanical Engineering control plan - a quarry's perspective - John Grindrod and Dan Taylor, Hanson Quarries
- Mine tailings dams, weird tests and weird machines are used to assess safety in this weird environment - Allan McConnell, Insitu Geotech Services Pty Ltd
- Westside drilling case study 3 years without a recordable injury - Simon Hann, Inguage
- Practising certificates and maintenance of competence, Tony Linnane, Resources Regulator
- Mechanical Engineering update - Jeremy U'Brien, Resources Regulator
- ACARP project to develop a wall-flow DPF system for diesel engines used in underground coal - Nick Coplin, Orbital Corporation Ltd
- Creating high performance mindful safety cultures - Alistair Schuback, Allframes Safety
- Project Arrive Alive - Jamie Coad and Troy Wells, Evolution Mining
- A review of RPAS (UAV) operations on mine sites - John Challinor, Survey and Drafting Resources Pty Ltd
- Falls from heights - incidences and incident reduction - Rick Millar, 3M Fall Protection
2016 events
Exploration in the House
| Title | Author | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| Exploration in the House 2016 - Opening Address | Hon. Anthony Roberts, Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy | View |
| Geological Survey of NSW activities: the year in review | Dr Chris Yeats | View |
| Mineral Systems: Key to Exploration Targeting | Campbell McCuaig & Jon Hronsky | View |
| Southern Thomson Project update: Uncovering the basement geology of the Thomson Orogen and plans for regional stratigraphic drilling | Ian Roach | View |
| Application of hyperspectral data for assessing 3D lithological and alteration architecture of porphyry Cu-Au systems | Jamie Robinson, David Tilley, Charlotte Barry, Peter Downes, John Greenfield, Joel Fitzherbert and Phil Blevin | View |
| Water and mining: The need for good geological information | Kevin Ruming | View |
| NSW Seamless Geology Project Past, Present and Future | Gary Colquhoun, Glen Phillips, Kyle Hughes, James Ballard and Liann Deyssing | View |
| Cooperative Drilling round 1: Discoveries and technical success stories | Michael Hallett | View |
| Geoscience Information Update 2016: new features, new data, new products | Bronwyn Witham | View |
| A new metallogenic framework to aid mineral exploration in the Cobar Basin | Phil Blevin, Joel Fitzherbert and Peter Downes | View |
2015 events
Exploration in the House
| Title | Author | Video clip | PowerPoint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exploration in the House 2015 - Opening Address | Hon. Anthony Roberts, Minister for Industry, Resources and Energy | View | |
| Geological Survey of NSW overview | John Greenfield | View | View |
| Role of juniors in NSW exploration – a 2015 update | Richard Schodde | View | View |
| The Broken Hill Special 1:250 000 Metallogenic Map - new insights into understanding mineralisation and mineral potential | Joel Fitzherbert | View | View |
| NSW Seamless Geology Project: progress to date and what's next | Glen Phillips | View | View |
| High precision zircon dating of tuffs in the Sydney–Gunnedah Basin | Kevin Ruming | View | View |
| A commodity and mineral system approach to mineral potential mapping in NSW | Phil Blevin | View | View |
| Reducing exploration risk under cover in the southern Thomson Orogen | Rosemary Hegarty | View | View |
| Geoscience information update | Trish Moriarty | View | View |
| Oroclines in the Tasmanides: a revolution in thinking | Robert Musgrave | View | View |