What type of equipment is utilised at the Morning Star?
A myriad of equipment is used at the Morning Star mine. There are two Kempe underground diamond drill rigs, three Boyles surface rigs, large air compressors to drive the underground rigs, all sorts of air-leg drills and tools for extraction of rock samples and mining, GPS equipment for surveying tenements and old workings, two independently run winches which operate the main lifts underground and various pumps to keep the ground water from encroaching on operations underground. MCO also uses earthmoving equipment and several IT items to make the office run efficiently from a technological standpoint.