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  • AUSIMM
    Balancing Competing Water Resource Demands and Mining in a Coastal Environment

    The mining of mineral sands in coastal aquifers is often constrained by other land use conflicts and inappropriate controls imposed through a lack of understanding of environmental interactions and

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    A Study into Bonding within Reduced Titanomagnetite-Coal Compacts

    By R J. Longbottom

    In this study the bonding within reduced titanomagnetite-coal compacts was investigated. The aim of the study was to better understand the binding mechanisms in the reduced compacts and, based on this

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Application of normative ore mineralogy to geological and metallurgical data sets at the Hera Au-Pb-Zn-Ag mine, New South Wales, Australia

    By A R. McKinnon

    The recently opened Hera Au-Pb-Zn-Ag mine in central New South Wales has provided an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the calculation of sulfide ore mineralogy using normative methods. Normative miner

    Sep 20, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Carrapateena Crows Foot Level Layout – Safety in design to support sub level cave production efficiency and automation

    By A Mooney, J Marsden, H Grosser, G Dunstan

    Carrapateena is a copper-gold deposit hosted in a brecciated granite complex, located 500km North of Adelaide, South Australia. The deposit is being mined using the Sub Level Caving (SLC) Mining metho

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Heterogeneity, Sampling Errors and the Nugget Effect in Gold Ores - Implications for Evaluation, Exploitation and Extraction

    Sampling errors result from heterogeneities within the lot under study. Within a rock mass in situ heterogeneity results in the geological nugget effect, which accounts for most of the natural variabi

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Characteristics and Mechanisms of Highwall Failures in Surface Coal Mines, Bowen Basin, Queensland

    By Wooltorton B

    Highwall failures in surface coal mines in Queensland occur as circular slips through weak and weathered material, or as bilinear slides on sub-horizontal surfaces and steeply dipping joints. Weak

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AUSIMM
    Review of Australian Longwall Panel Ventilation Practices

    By S Gillies, H W. Wu

    A study has been undertaken into mine ventilation systems currently in use within Australian modern coal longwall (LW) extraction mines. It reviews systems and discusses evolving changes being adopted

    Jul 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    A Historical Perspective of the Application and Success of Geometallurgical Methodologies

    By S R. Williams

    There is a sense of geometallurgy being new; a new methodology for mining project development and improved operational strategy. One of the main challenges that any ænewÆ technology faces is a validat

    Sep 29, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    New Developments in High Productivity Excavators

    By Haase W. C

    The content of this paper will identify recent developments in walking dragline technology including utilisation of planetary swing dnves, high voltage generators, unique bucket configurations and inc

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Rock Mass Characterisation and Analysis for Excavation Design – A Discrete Fracture Network Approach

    By F M. Weir, M Fowler

    The design of excavations in rock must, implicitly or explicitly take into consideration the influence of small- and large-scale geological structures. For most sites the complexity of a fractured roc

    Nov 5, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Post Closure Management of the Mt Leyshon Gold Mine - Water the Integrator

    By T Baumgartl, D Mulligan, R Haymont

    Mining at the Mt Leyshon Gold Mine in semi-arid north Queensland stopped in 2002. Newmont Australia has recently initiated a thorough post-closure water management study of the site by revisiting the

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    ‘We’re Metallurgists, not Magicians!’

    By E McLean

    The decision making check-list and hierarchy of information for process and plant design is generally wide-ranging and complex. The nature of grades, mineralisation and ore types in an ore body, its

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Water as Risk in Mining – Media Analysis and the RISKGATE Body of Knowledge

    By J Harris, M Shi, S Vink, P A. Kirsch

    Across the life-of-mine, water is both an essential commodity to mining, and one of the most significant hazards. In Australia, a land of drought and floods, availability of water is a critical strate

    Jul 16, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Laboratory Flash Flotation Trends for a Variety of Gold Particles

    By T D. H McGrath, J P. Vaughan, J Heath, J J. Eksteen

    A reliable laboratory method to characterise the response of free gold particles when subjected to flash flotation conditions has been developed by AMIRA P420 researchers at Curtin University. This te

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    The Application of Advanced Undercutting at PT Freeport IndonesiaÆs Deep Ore Zone Mine

    By A Sinuhaji, R Poedjono, G Flumerfelt

    PT Freeport Indonesia is currently building the DOZ mine. It is a 25 000 tonne/day block caving operation which is scheduled to reach designed production levels by the fourth quarter of 2002. This pap

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Designing Flotation Cells For Optimised Flow Dynamics

    By T Niitti, J Turunen, P B, A Rinne

    In todayÆs marketplace, with high metals prices, many operations are faced with the challenge of improving recovery in the particle size ranges which are normally difficult to recover. This presentati

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    True Pipe Sampler – A Correct Design Utilising the Principle of Symmetry in Pressurised Slurry Particulate Streams

    By G J. Halstead, R C. Steinhaus

    The True Pipe® in-line sampler was developed in an attempt to address the need for a mechanically reliable and correctly designed sampler to suit one-dimensional pressurised slurry pipelines, often fo

    Jul 29, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Influence of the occurrence state of Al2O3 on the metallurgical performance of product sinter

    By J Pan, Q H. Li, D Q. Zhu, C C. Yang, X Wang, Z Q. Guo

    Al2O3 in natural iron ores generally occurs in goethite, kaolinite, gibbsite, hematite and iron carbonate. When the content of alumina in sinter increases from 1.11 per cent to 3.50 per cent, the redu

    Nov 8, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Instantaneous Outbursts of Coal and Gas

    The phenomenon of Instantaneous Outbursts, although not new to Australia, was sharply drawn to the attention of the local coal-mining industry by two isolated fatal occurrences on widely separated fie

    Jan 1, 1958

  • AUSIMM
    The Effect of Weak Acid Dissociable Cyanide on Gold and Silver Flotation in Hidden Valley Mine

    By Y Peng, B Guo

    In gold processing plants, the water from the cyanidation stages is treated to detoxify cyanide species and this recycle water becomes the main part of the process water. Despite the low concentration

    Sep 26, 2013