Excellence in service for the mining industry

Having partnered with major mining corporations for many years, we have modelled much of our business around the ever-changing needs of the resource sector.

We have the experience, network, products, and systems to service the most demanding industry requirements and mining hire equipment needs.

Seeking proven mining industry solutions for your operation? Call us on 13 40 40 or connect with your local Onsite Rentals branch today.

Our Heavy Mining Equipment Rental Range

Access Machinery

  • Knuckle booms
  • Telescopic and trailer-mounted booms
  • Rough terrain and electric slab scissor lifts
  • Vertical lifts

Portable Accommodation

  • On-site offices and caravans
  • Portable toilets and amenities blocks

Lifting Equipment

  • Telehandlers
  • Forklifts

Lighting Equipment

  • LED and solar-powered lighting towers

Water Pumps

  • Air diaphragm pumps
  • Solids pumps
  • Firefighting units
  • Submersible pumps

Air Compressors

  • Diesel portable, trailer-mounted, and after-cooled compressors

Dual Welders

  • Dual welder compressors
  • Dual welder generators

Diesel Generators

  • Portable and power-packed generators

Australian Mining Methods We Provide Equipment For

There are four main types of mining in Australia, spread across key regions such as WA, QLD, SA, and NSW:

Surface-Mining

Surface Mining

Extracts minerals like coal, iron ore, copper, bauxite, lithium, diamonds, and zinc near the surface by removing soil and rock. Techniques include strip mining, open-pit mining, and dredging.

Underground Mining

Underground Mining

Accesses deep ore deposits of gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc, coal, potash, salt, and uranium via tunnels or shafts. Methods include room-and-pillar, narrow vein stoping, and block caving.

Placer Mining

Placer Mining

Uses water to separate dense minerals like gold, platinum, diamonds, titanium, rare earth elements, and heavy mineral sands from lighter sediment in rivers and beaches, often through panning.

In-Situ Mining

In-Situ Mining

Extracts minerals by pumping a chemical solution underground to dissolve the ore and pump the mineral-rich liquid to the surface for processing, requiring minimal rock removal.

Benefits of Mining Equipment Rentals

  • Flexible access: Mining equipment hire allows you to choose from a broad range of specialised machinery to suit both short-term and ongoing projects. You can adjust your hire as requirements change.
  • Smarter cost control: You only pay for the equipment you actually use, avoiding large upfront purchases and ongoing expenses like storage and servicing.
  • Greater efficiency on site: Reliable hire equipment supports safer workflows and smoother operations, helping projects stay productive and minimise delays.
  • Safety and compliance assured: All machinery is professionally maintained and regularly inspected to meet Australian safety standards, giving you confidence on every job.

How to Rent Mining Equipment

Our mining equipment for rent service is built to be straightforward, reliable, and easy to manage. With a streamlined process from contracted pricing to integrated fleet visibility, we make sure you have the right plant equipment and machinery when you need it.

  1. Tender or contract activation – Most clients rent equipment through open tenders, panel agreements, or preferred supplier arrangements. Our team works within established rate schedules, compliance requirements, and service level agreements to align with your contract terms from day one.
  2. Planning and mobilisation – Once engaged, we collaborate with your procurement and site teams to forecast equipment demand, coordinate staged mobilisation, and ensure equipment availability across remote and regional mining operations.
  3. Integrated fleet management – Gain full visibility over your hired fleet through our cloud-based Total Rental Management (TRM) platform ONTRAK™. Monitor on-hire and off-hire activity, track utilisation, and analyse spend across multiple sites in real time.
  4. Ongoing servicing and support – Our team is available throughout the entire hire period to assist with technical advice, servicing and maintenance if needed to minimise downtime and maintain site productivity.
  5. Flexible contract adjustments – As production schedules or project scopes evolve, we can extend, scale, redeploy, or adjust equipment allocations to ensure your mining operations remain efficient and cost controlled.
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Why Hire Mining Equipment From Onsite Rentals?

As a national, specialist rental equipment business, Onsite Rentals focuses solely on B2B partnerships, delivering ‘Total Rental Management’ (TRM) solutions. We understand the mining industry’s demands from a safety and innovation perspective, and provide expert service tailored to Australia’s mining businesses.

We remain flexible, knowing that no two sites are the same. We focus on understanding your specific operational pain points, how we can alleviate them, and how we can add value to your project or processing operation.

Our industry-leading digital portals provide complete visibility and usage information to make sure every hire is efficient. Our Branch-in-a-Box™ mobile tool store enables us to service customers in remote mining locations. We can ‘pop up’ wherever and whenever we are needed, reducing overheads while still providing high-quality, essential mining equipment hire services wherever you operate.

Speak to our mining equipment experts today for a quote

Mining Equipment for Hire – Case Studies

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Mining Case Study

Proactive Fleet Management at Rio Tinto Yarwun

Rio Tinto approached Onsite with concerns of rising costs of equipment hire at its world-class alumina refinery at Yarwun. Costs were rising as a result of under-utilisation, difficulty locating fleet, and lack of procurement oversight.

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Mining Case Study

Forklift Control System at Rio Tinto Yarwun

Rio Tinto Yarwun Refinery faced a significant challenge around control of projects specifically with authority, speed compliance, lift compliance and overall accountability of damage & fuel consumption. With more than 20 Fork lifts in 24/7 operation, used by different work-groups and multiple users, this posed a threat to the company’s ability to mitigate health, safety and cost control risks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Onsite Rentals offers both wet hire (equipment with operator) and dry hire (equipment only) solutions for mining operations.

ONTRAK™ is a leading-edge TRM software solution that simplifies heavy-duty mining equipment hire needs. It lets you track assets in real-time, giving you full visibility of equipment usage, improving operational efficiency, and helping reduce downtime.

Costs vary depending on the equipment type and hire duration. Contact us directly for a quote.

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