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Case Study: Wolfram Camp Remediation Project

The Abandoned Mine Lands Program (AMLP) manages legacy mining impacts at abandoned mine sites across Queensland. This management ranges from active remediation programs including investigation, design and implementation activities, to care and maintenance programs and responses to abandoned mine notifications.

Located in North Queensland the Wolfram Camp mine was not decommissioned or rehabilitated before it was abandoned, and hazards exist that pose risks to public health and safety, and the environment.

Product Solution

The Powertec Repeater Tower was installed to capture the strongest available mobile signal and redistribute to locations on the site, where they required mobile signal.

Powertec Repeater Tower

The Deployable Cel-Fi Repeater Tower is a unique quick-deployed mobile coverage solution for blackspot areas, this system is designed to meet the need for a low-cost and quick mobile coverage solution for temporary and semi-permanent mining, agriculture, roadworks, and construction operations.

This system is designed to provide a wide beam of outdoor 4G mobile coverage to a distance of up to 400 metres, capable of operating even in locations with very weak coverage. It can be used as a relay, with other repeaters aiming back to this ‘master’ site potentially beyond 1 kilometre.

Challenges

Staff working at the Wolfram Camp mine site as part of the remediation project had been complaining about poor mobile signal for a long time. The poor mobile reception meant that they could not make or receive calls and had no mobile data for internet applications required for work.

The site was a remote location west of Cairns, with the closest Telstra Mobile tower a long way off.
With the site being an abandoned mine there were also associated health and safety risks;

  • abandoned processing plant and equipment
  • hazardous wastes and hydrocarbons
  • open pit, waste rock stockpile and historic shaft/mine entrance
  • exposed loose surface tailings susceptible to wind and rainfall erosion.

         

Outcome

The client had Telstra mobile reception in locations for his staff to use for calls and data. Better safety was provided to the site and a form of keeping in touch with his staff.

Testimonial

“I had Telstra mobile reception in locations on the site that I never thought I would.”

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