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  • AUSIMM
    How efficient is DigiMine technology in recording earth movements? A look at the Botswanan earthquake

    By J Kwiri, T Zvarivadza, R Mitra, F Cawood

    It is crucial to record ground movement of any magnitude to enable the safe and economical design of excavations and infrastructure. The DigiMine Laboratory is equipped with technologies to record suc

    Nov 30, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Minimising Coal Edge Losses in Dragline Blasting Operations

    By Yang RL, Bailey ML

    During overburden blasting operations in dragline pits, coal edge losses along the lowwall edge of the new pit are often experienced. In tonnage terms, losses can be significant. With the thick seams

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    Introduction of Battery Powered Coal Haulers into Board and Pillar Panel Production

    Powercoal Pty Ltd operates eight underground coal mines in New South Wales and produces coal for both domestic power stations and the export market. Approximately 40% of total production is from conti

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    In-pit backfilling as part of integrated life-of-mine waste scheduling, closure planning and AMD risk management – Martabe Mine as a case study

    By K Grohs, A Satriawan, S R. Pearce

    Martabe gold and silver mine is operated by PT Agincourt Resources (PTAR) and is situated in northern Sumatra and comprises several deposits in steep terrain, and in a tropical climate, that are requi

    Aug 2, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Are our closure planning and regulatory processes adequate to identify, quantify and appropriately transfer residual risks after successful mine rehabilitation?

    By P B. Swart, P D. Erskine

    Despite an increasing focus by media, communities and activists driving an elevated regulatory focus in Australia and indeed some other mining jurisdictions, the mining industry globally has had limit

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Visualising risk – proactive is better than reactive

    By S Withell, K Sheehan

    Whitehaven Coal (WHC) is undergoing a transformative journey, deeply committed to the principles of a High Reliability Organisation (HRO) and the establishment of a mature, interdependent culture foun

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    BHP Port Hedland wind fence – innovations in dust control

    By R Peiffer, L van Wyk

    The Port of Port Hedland is the largest bulk export terminal in the world and is one of Australia’s most important pieces of economic infrastructure. BHP is the largest Port user to support the export

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Phreatic uncertainty in the unsaturated zone of tailings storage facilities: an examination of two Australian case studies

    By E J. Coyle, L A. Millington

    Tailings storage facilities are geotechnically complicated structures that develop heterogeneous strength profiles and varied porewater conditions. The monitoring of porewater pressures is one of the

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Improved iron ore processing through digitalising conveyed ore flowsusing representative real time multi-elemental analysis

    By H Kurth

    High specification Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation Analysis (PGNAA) has been successfully applied to conveyed flows at iron ore operations since 2002 to representatively measure ore quality for improv

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Rocktype classification and domaining of complex stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag mineralisation at the George Fisher Mine using high resolution XRF Core scanning

    By R Valenta, I Fahey, M Klawitter, N Spanswick

    Zinc-Lead-Silver (Zn-Pb-Ag) mineralisation at the George Fisher Mine occurs in multiple structurally-disrupted stratiform orebodies hosted within a mid-Proterozoic sequence of calcareous siltstones an

    Nov 21, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Shear strength of compacted clay liner at McArthur River Mine

    By Y Xu, J Hacker, D J. Williams

    Shear strength parameters of compacted clay liners are needed to analyse the stability of mine waste dumps containing compacted clay liners as sealing layers for potentially acid forming waste rock. A

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Ore quality measurement and control using GEOSCAN-M PGNAA real time elemental analysis

    By H Kurth

    Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in the southern Mongolia holds mineral resources that make it one of the largest known copper and gold deposits in the world. The project is operating an open pit mine

    Mar 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Driving the transformation to hydrogen ironmaking – an experimental vertical shaft H2-DRI reactor facility in NZ

    By M McCurd, M Lynch, B H. Yin, S Mendoza, C W. Bumby, Y Iwasaki, B Rumsey

    Iron and steel production is responsible for approximately 6.3 per cent of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Direct reduction of iron with hydrogen is a potential route for decarbonising the iron an

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Why Are Mine Safety Management Plans Important to Mining Operators?

    New South Wales mining legislation reinforces a systematic approach to safety management. It is now a requirement of all mines in the coal, metalliferous and quarrying sectors in NSW to prepare a Mine

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Improving Roadway Development in Underground Coal Mines

    By G Gibson

    Realising that current roadway development performance levels were unlikely to sustain new generation high-capacity (15 Mt/a) longwall mines then being planned, the Australian Coal Association Researc

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Modelling of Blast-induced Fracture Processes in Naturally Jointed Rock Medium

    By D Deb, R Pramanik

    This paper presents a generalised methodology in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) framework to analyse dynamic failure process of rock mass having natural joint under blast-induced stress wave an

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Open Pit Mining - Keeping the New South Wales Industry Alive

    Coal has been mined in New South Wales for nearly 200 years and prior to 1970 the vast majority of this coal was mined from underground mines using bord and pillar or similar systems.Since 1970 there

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Laboratory-Scale Assessment of Hot Spot Development in Bulk Coal Self-Heating

    A new two-metre column self-heating test procedure has been developed at the University of Queensland, which clearly shows the hot spot development phases that take place in bulk coal self-heating. Th

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Ore variability and process plant performance – the impacts to revenue

    By A Millar, B Wraith

    Process plants are characterised by variability of performance over a wide range of time-scales; reflected in fluctuations in metal recovery, concentrate grade, plant throughput and reagent costs. In

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Parametric assessment of tailings liquefaction and earthquake induced embankment deformations using FLAC

    By B Ghahreman‐Nejad, M Munro

    Design of embankment dams often requires seismic analyses, or an assessment of earthquakeinduced ground and dam movements. There are a large number of cases where earthquakes have triggered sliding an

    Jul 1, 2021