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  • AUSIMM
    Empowering tailings operators through education

    By D Brett

    The Paper presents the authors thoughts on how the mining industry should be improving the education of site personnel so they can provide a greater level of effective control of tailings dam safety i

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Drift and Fill - The High Value, High Recovery Mining System

    By M English, M Yumlu

    At times of high metal prices, mining projects that have previously been put into the ætoo hard basketÆ are now being more closely examined. Typically these projects include the potential recovery of

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Conceptual Design of a Dry-stacked Coal Rejects Facility in a Subtropical Climate

    By A M. Barrett, P J. Chapman

    As filtering technology improves and there is an increased focus on environmental impacts, the concept of managing fine coal rejects by filtering, mixing with coarse rejects and dry stacking them is b

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Trucking, Rail or Conveyor?

    By R B. Venugopal, P Staples

    The selection of the mode of transport for moving bulk materials is never a simple task as there are various concerns/considerations applied to the selection of the most practical and cost-effective m

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    The Geograph

    The Geograph is a revolutionary seismic system involving special techniques in combining the use of FIT magnetic tape with shock wave echoes created by a weight dropping system.The idea of- weight dro

    Jan 1, 1962

  • AUSIMM
    Utilising Electronic Detonators at Hail Creek Mine for ‘Dynamic Buffering’

    By A Baker

    Hail Creek Mine is an open cut coal operation owned by Rio Tinto. It is located 120 km south west of Mackay in the Bowen Basin region of central Queensland. Opened in late 2003, the mine produces two

    Nov 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Flotation control using froth stability: past, present and future

    By C Smith, J Cilliers, K Hadler

    Unstable flotation froths, that burst before they overflow, produce no concentrate. Increasing the froth stability to improve recovery is therefore an obvious control strategy. Froth stability can be

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Metso SmartTag - The Next Generation and Beyond

    By K J. Riihioja, E Nozawa

    SmartTag is a radio frequency identification (RFID) based technology designed to allow tracking of ore from its source through blasting, run-of-mine (ROM) pads, crushers, intermediate stockpiles and f

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Great Oil Debate – Does Quenching Oil have a Deleterious Effect on Flotation?

    By C J. Greet

    Oil can enter a flotation circuit from a number of sources (for example, from mining equipment, oil leaks from the grinding equipment and coatings on the grinding media, but to name a few). Folklore g

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Aligning Resource Estimates with Mine Planning

    By D Kentwell

    A resource model serves two main purposes depending on the stage of a project. The first is to provide an early indication of likely tonnages and grades at certain cut-offs so that decisions can be ma

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Conveying of Paste Backfill ù Focusing on Zero Harm on the Environment at Cannington

    The BHP Billiton Cannington Mine uses paste as the principal method of backfill. The paste consists of mine tailings and cement. The pastefill process at Cannington includes a surface plant where the

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Sulfur loss from the slag during desulfurisation of liquid steel

    By S Karosiya, A Sharma, M Jain, N N. Viswanathan, M M. Pande, D Kumar, S Kumar

    Desulfurisation of steel during ladle refining is governed by both thermodynamics and kinetics. For effective desulfurisation, thermodynamically, a low partial pressure of oxygen at the steel-slag int

    Aug 21, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Advances in In Situ Testing of Ventilation Control Devices for Underground Mines

    By M Salu, G J. Kay

    "As underground mines increasingly face the challenge of maximising production without losingfocus on safety excellence, the ability to predict the eff ectiveness of mine seals and stoppings andthe id

    Jun 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Pre-Ore Reserve Reporting

    Arising from prospecting success, the underlying worth of the shares of a publicly listed mining exploration company can increase many-fold. Prompt and accurate reporting during the exploration st

    Jan 1, 1979

  • AUSIMM
    A Dynamic Evaluation of Water Supply Security Susceptible to Climate Seasonality

    By G Fergus, M Hart, S W. Weeks

    Rio Tinto Alcan has undertaken feasibility level assessments into the expansion of its bauxite mining operation in an area south of the Embley River in far north Queensland. The project has the potent

    Nov 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Water Management at BHP Billiton Olympic Dam

    BHP Billiton Olympic Dam produces copper cathode, uranium oxide concentrate and refined gold and silver. The operation is comprised of an underground Mine and Processing Plant and is located 560 km no

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Commitment, Compliance and Capacity - How Environmental, Safety, Security and Social Financial Issues Affect LendersÆ Risk

    By G S. C Murray

    Major mining projects are developed with the assistance of lending institutions who provide hundreds of millions of dollars in funding over several years, and of course expect those funds to be return

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Mine to mill study – Bond Work index as factor for intrusive and non-intrusive rock type

    By W F. E Ouedraogo

    This study data has been collected on a three-month period from November 2020 to January 2021 and based on three different pits: Vindaloo Main, Vindaloo Central and Bouere. Both pits having specific g

    Jun 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Field Measurement of Transient Pore Pressures within Co-disposed Processing Rejects Placed in a Spoil Dump

    By R Van Laeren, G Langerak, S Fityus, K Koosmen

    Co-disposal of partly-dewatered mixed-plant rejects (MPR) from coal processing into spoil dumps is gaining favour amongst Australian coalmine operators in preference to conventional tailings disposal

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding and modelling squeezing ground conditions at the Ballarat Gold Mine

    By B Roache, A Vakili, R Talebi

    When a highly anisotropic or weak rock mass is subjected to high-stress conditions, it can lead to large ongoing deformations or squeezing ground conditions. Squeezing ground conditions can impose inc

    Nov 30, 2018