Services They Offer
MineMend offers a comprehensive range of services tailored to meet the unique needs of the mining industry. These capabilities include:
- Spreading: Utilising tractors and spreaders to distribute a variety of amelioration products such as gypsum, lime, compost, manure, biosolids, fertiliser, grass seed, hay mulch, and chipbark. They also offer drone spreading services for seeds, fertiliser, and granular products, enabling coverage of challenging terrain and work in wet weather when tractors are not suitable.
- Cultivation: Their cultivation services include shallow ripping, harrowing, and discing, ensuring thorough soil preparation and optimal growth conditions.
- Product supply: MineMend provides an array of high-quality products essential for mine site rehabilitation:
- Gypsum
- Lime
- Compost
- Manure
- Biosolids
- Fertiliser
- Custom grass seed and tree seed blends
- Hay mulch
- Chipbark
Equipment and Technology
MineMend prides itself on using advanced equipment and technology to ensure precision and efficiency:
- John Deere Tractors: Equipped with GPS guidance and precision application technology for accurate product distribution and minimal wastage.
- JCB Telehandlers: Fitted with certified calibrated scales for precise loading.
- Gypsum/Lime/Compost Spreaders: For even and effective product application.
- Fertiliser and Grass Seed Spreaders: Ensuring thorough coverage.
- DJI AgDrone: Capable of aerial application for hard-to-reach areas and adverse weather conditions.
- Cultivators, Shallow Rippers, Harrows, and Offset Discs: For thorough soil preparation.
Experience and Team
The MineMend team, led by Jamie Janke, brings over 20 years of agricultural experience and more than 7 years of applying these skills to the mine site rehabilitation sector. Combined, their team has over 50 years of agricultural expertise and 20+ years in the mining sector. All operators are qualified and certified to operate the MineMend fleet of machines, ensuring professional and efficient service delivery.
Why Choose MineMend?
Choosing MineMend means choosing a company that is committed to following the provided scope from their clients and delivering the best practical results, whilst also still contributing guidance and expertise to ensure optimum results. They are not just consultants; they are doers who get the job done to the specified scope of works. Their unique combination of agricultural roots and mining expertise sets them apart, ensuring that they make grass and trees grow where others cannot.
Minemend has been entrusted with rehabilitation and revegetation projects for numerous clients throughout Queensland. These include, but are not limited to:
- BMA
- Glencore
- Ensham
- Whitehaven
- Middlemount Coal
- Sojitz
- Terracom
- Curragh
- Katcom
- Thiess
- Golding
