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The Kwademen Gold Deposit: A Polymorphic Mineralization within a Precambrian (Birrimian) Greenstone Belt in Burkina Daso, West Africa: A Case HistoryThe Kwademen Au deposit was discovered in 1977- 1978 following a regional geochemical survey carried out as part of a UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) and BUMIGEB (Bureau des Mines et de
Jan 1, 1988
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The emerging role of the operational geotechnical engineerBy C G. Sweeney
The underground mining industry is seeing unprecedented shortages in skilled labour. Migration to Australia being at an all-time low is a leading concern, with pandemic-induced border closures and loc
Nov 29, 2022
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Coalmine ventilation – examining the past, looking to the futureBy J M. Galvin
History attests to the catastrophic consequences that fire, explosion and contaminated, noxious andirrespirable atmospheres can have for workplace health and safety in underground coal mining. It also
Oct 12, 2022
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Reverse Sensitivity - A Two-Way Street, Not a Dead EndReverse sensitivity is a critical issue for all extractive activities. Extractive industries can only establish in the location of the particular resource sought to be extracted. Avoiding a location n
Jan 1, 2006
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Getting it right from the beginning – ESG in mineral explorationBy L H. G McClean
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have always been important to the minerals industry and is now considered one of our most important opportunities (and risks). Getting it right from
Sep 1, 2024
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Gold-New Developments, Research, and the FutureNew technology is a significant factor in the present upsurge in world, and Australian, gold extraction and production. The main technologies in current use for gold production are described, ref
Jan 1, 1986
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Numerical Modelling of Undermined River Valleys ù A Case StudyBy J W. Lee, E Baafi, N Aziz
Ground subsidence due to mining is a common dilemma confronting the underground coal mining industry. The effects of underground longwall mining on river valleys have come under scrutiny, especially w
Jan 1, 2005
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Further Development of Short-face Technology in the Soviet Coal MinesBy Kuzmitch O, Morozov A
The main direction in the mechanisation in the mines of the Donbas and the USSR is long-face technology with complexes on the base of hydraulic supports. On the base of the 30 year old experience of e
Jan 1, 1991
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Unlocking value chain optimisation with a digital mining systemBy S Gulati, N Sarkar, T Vink, S Battersby, L Okada
This paper examines a successful project implemented by BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) and the Polymathian team at Deswik, aimed at enhancing short-term scheduling processes to reduce vessel turn times
Sep 1, 2024
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Learnings from review of drawpoint management across New South Wales minesBy X Hill
Throughout the 2016/2017 financial year, the NSW Resources Regulator conducted an assessment of each underground metalliferous operation across the state to assess how each operation managed the princ
Oct 16, 2017
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The application of digital twin machine learning models for Mine to Mill and Pit to Plant optimisationBy X Hu, Z Pokrajcic, R Embry, P C. Stewart, J Carpenter, E Jones
Whilst the value of Pit to Plant and Mine to Mill optimisation has been proven since the 1990s, sustaining the productivity and efficiency gains typically requires ongoing test work, blast trials, pla
Jun 22, 2022
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New Blasting Initiation Technologies in the Mining IndustryAlfred Nobel first invented a practical detonator in 1863 and then the blasting cap in 1865. At that time the detonator was used on the end of a length of safety fuse to initiate nitroglycerine-based
Jan 1, 2005
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Bauxite Deposits of the Kimberley, Western AustraliaBy Zani J. A, Jackson W. D
Bauxite was discovered in the Kimberley in 1965 by an Amax field crew. Reserves of 230 million tons, of bauxite. averaging 47% total alumina on Mitchell Plateau and 980 million tons averaging 36%
Jan 1, 1973
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Optimisation of the Peak Gold Mine’s Processing Plant through Advanced Process ControlBy J Hartog, V Beehan, D Beeson
Treating an ore blend from five different deposits at Newgold’s Peak Gold Mine (PGM) has always been a challenge due to the inherent variability between each of the orebodies.Operating the processing
Sep 1, 2014
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Reflectance Spectroscopy with X-ray Fluorescence for Rapid Online Assaying in a Copper-nickel Flotation PlantBy A Rantala, J Timperi and J Kaartinen, T Maksimainen, O Haavisto
"X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the most common technique used for online slurry assaying in base metal flotation applications. Typically, assays from feed, concentrate and tailings slurries are used to
Oct 10, 2016
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Use of the Logical Framework Approach to Establish a Simple Sustainable Development Framework for Application to a Proposed Mine at Aurukun on Western Cape YorkThis paper describes the development of an approach to sustainable development for application at the feasibility study stage for a proposed bauxite mine near the community of Aurukun, south of Weipa
Jan 1, 2009
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Multi-factor integrated data analytics and data-driven decision-making for ground control managementBy R Carstens, L Munsamy, L Prinsloo, C Huang, C Zhang, R Liang, I Canbulat
With recent advances in machine learning, data-based automated decision-making has been proven successful with promising outcomes in many industries. Its application in the mining sector can be ground
Nov 29, 2022
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Discovery of the Solomon Iron DepositsBy D Kepert, C Simpson, D Edwards
Channel iron deposits (CID) currently supply over 40 per cent of the seaborne iron ore trade out of the Hamersley Province. The two well documented producing systems (Robe and Marillana palaeochannels
Jan 1, 2009
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Float it, Clean it, Depress it – Consolidating the Separation Stages at Clarabelle MillBy V Lawson
Vale’s Sudbury Clarabelle Mill processes Cu/Ni ores from a number of mines in the Sudbury basin in Ontario, Canada. Bulk sulphide flotation produces a copper-nickel concentrate with pyrrhotite as the
Aug 8, 2011
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A case study: how being ‘aware of now’ is making work safer at Telfer undergroundBy S B. Fitch, S A. Wilson, A J. R Barr, P R. Searle
Improving the safety culture and performance of any operation is a fundamental goal of every mine operator. Methods of implementing, or changing a culture have developed from the early methods of oper
Mar 15, 2021