Australia’s Mining Monthly — December 2017

Ontrak on the right track

Ontrak Engineering, an underground mining equipment designer and supplier from

Maraylya in New South Wales, has grown from a two-man operation servicing Underground

Mining locomotives and man cars, to a 25-strong company designing and manufacturing

its own Feeder Breakers, Reclaim Feeders and chain conveyors.

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Lewry, and co-owners Robyn
Lees and Doug Lees have
held the reins since starting
the company 20-years ago, they are now
readying for a change of the guard and will
soon propel sons Shannon and Adam, who
started the company with Steve, into more
active management roles at company
headquarters in Maraylya.
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successful; the small group of people who

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equipment and chain conveyors for use in

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forefront of underground mining, both

in Australia and overseas, and provides

some unique machinery for development

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coal, which is gentler on equipment, but

now has equipment operating in some

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AngloAmerican's Moranbah North development feeder.

Newcrest Gold’s diesel
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