Featured Archives - Page 5 of 12 - Resourc.ly: mining stories from Western Australia

How an unexpected cadetship opened up the world

The past three years have been quite the journey for Port Hedland's Kyal Randazzo.

The Pilbara – beautiful one moment, apocalyptic skies the next

Pilbara towns and mine sites are used to expecting some of the unexpected during wet season – but the past few weeks have been particularly fruitful for storm chasers and weather watchers.

‘It’s like mining…only in reverse’

Geoff Dyer’s career journey provides a neat little illustration of the changing face and nature of mining in WA over the past few decades.

The WA tech company aiming to make mining and resources a meta place

RemSense and Steven Brown started out in the drone photography business - but soon realised they were headed somewhere far more exciting.

How a piece of US rail history found an unlikely new life in the Pilbara

The story of the Silver Star starts out in the midwest of the United States in the late 1930s, when rail was still a dominant mode of cross-country passenger transport.

Search for an Aussie dunny morphs into a mining safety tool

Like a lot of Australian stories, this one starts with a search for a toilet – but with far wider reaching ramifications than anyone could initially have predicted.