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Just two more sleeps before the highly anticipated Inland Truck Centre and Inland Petroleum Truck and Tractor Show (TTT) roars back into town. The biennial event celebrating big wheels, transport, and their important connection to agriculture and the community of Trangie is back again this Saturday. Trucking, tractor, motoring and bike enthusiasts from all over are expected to descend on Trangie for the weekend, bringing substantial economic benefits to the community and the wider region. The most recent TTT in 2023 reportedly welcomed over 4000 people to the unique event that has become a must-attend on many people’s social calendars. TTT officially launches tomorrow, Friday, August 22, with the “Beer and Gears Dinner” featuring the formal announcement of the 2025 nominees for the TTT Wall of Fame.
Smart design work to improve underground ventilation systems to better protect mine workers from harmful airborne contaminants has helped Val Salamakha, a graduate mining engineer with Alkane Resources’ Tomingley Gold Operations (TGO), take out a major mining industry award earlier this month. Mr Salamakha was one of seven young professionals to participate in “The Pitch”, a session giving voice to people aged under 30 in the NSW mining industry at the NSW Minerals Council’s annual Health, Safety, Environment and Community (HSEC) Conference. Billed as one of the most inspiring sessions at the Hunter Valley conference, “The Pitch” enabled the young professionals to challenge conference delegates to think about how the industry can continue to mine responsibly, now and in the future. All six presentations delivered on August 5 were highly regarded but the panel of ‘mentors’ - John Watson from Glencore, Mark Jacobs from Yancoal, Barb Crossley from Umwelt and Samantha Daly
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Val Salamakha with the five other Pitch participants at the HSEC conference earlier this month.
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Mr Salamakha’s work as the standout presentation.
Put simply, Alkane TGO is rethinking how underground mines are ventilated to better protect workers from harmful airborne dust and diesel fumes. With stricter safety limits on the way, Mr Salamakha is leading a project to
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test whether the industry’s long-used ventilation standards are still good enough. By using real data and site-specific analysis, the goal is to develop smarter, safer practices that put worker health first and support more responsible mining. Mr Salamakha told Narromine Star he entered “The Pitch” with the encouragement of Underground Manag-
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er, Andrew Brown, and submitted the ventilation project he had been working on. Making it through to the finals, which would be decided on day two of the three-day conference, he attended the event with other company representatives and had just a few minutes to “pitch” his project to the conference delegates. Continued page 3