Western Australian iron ore company Karara Mining has hit paydirt with the teaming of Autonomy iManage WorkSite and Advantys WorkflowGen to provide a shared environment for storing business content. Documents, records, email messages and other media are consolidated in a central library, making them easier to find, share, and reuse.

Karara Mining is a joint venture between WA’s Gindalbie Metals Ltd and Chinese steel producer AnSteel, currently constructing the Karara Iron Ore Project: the development of the magnetite deposit at Karara. This offers known resources sufficient to support production for more than 30 years.

In early 2009, with some 80 employees already creating and interacting with its information, Karara had no information management strategy whatsoever.
They recognised the opportunity to mould the way their information management and business processes grew with exploration, construction and operations teams over the short and long term.

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