Digging Deeper with @ The Coalface
Oct 4, 2026 · 58 min · 14 segments
After Jess sat down with Joe Clayton in Episode 18, Joe reached out with a hundred more stories. Stories about witch doctors, how he dealt with illegal miners, and run-ins with natives. Joe has…
Joe ClaytonGuest
Jessica RouseHost
You know, John Howard closed all the borders of Australia when all these illegals were trying to come in by boat and this boat was sinking and there was a cargo boat, the Tampa, picked up, you know, like about 50 of these guys off this overloaded boat and it became a real political issue in Australia.
But it took, the Tampa floated around in the Indian Ocean for about six or seven weeks while they were trying to get a political solution, right?
And we're doubling the size of the throughput for the mine, right? And as ever, you know, doing construction, we were doubling the crusher throughput.
And we're waiting for the crusher, right? And we're behind and we're getting all sorts of pressure from BHP, what's going on.
You know, John Howard closed all the borders of Australia when all these illegals were trying to come in by boat and this boat was sinking and there was a cargo boat, the Tampa, picked up, you know, like about 50 of these guys off this overloaded boat and it became a real political issue in Australia.
But it took, the Tampa floated around in the Indian Ocean for about six or seven weeks while they were trying to get a political solution, right?
And we're doubling the size of the throughput for the mine, right? And as ever, you know, doing construction, we were doubling the crusher throughput.
And we're waiting for the crusher, right? And we're behind and we're getting all sorts of pressure from BHP, what's going on.
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