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  • AUSIMM
    Sensible Cost Cutting for Resource Projects

    By D Connelly

    As the resources sector becomes tougher with rising costs and cyclical metal prices, mining companies need to continue to reduce their costs and do more with less. Many new resource projects fail to c

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Design of Copper-Cobalt Hydrometallurgical Circuits

    Copper-Cobalt hydrometallurgy has seen a resurgence in recent years with the development of projects in Zambia and the DRC. Many of the flow sheets are unique in their use of hydrometallurgical techni

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Incorporating the true costs and opportunities of rehabilitation and closure in project selection, design and approvals

    By C Tomlin, C Gimber

    Historically, key closure risks have been studied during operations and then further assessed as cessation of mining approaches. Only in the past couple of decades or so has progressive rehabilitation

    Aug 2, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Process modelling and high-throughput thermochemical calculations using ChemApp for Python

    By F Tang, Ö K. Büyükuslu, M Baben, S Petersen

    GTT-Technologies’ ChemApp for Python was developed to provide a powerful, easy to use interface to ChemApp for a programming language highly popular with scientists and engineers. It is used, for inst

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Real-time Through-belt Moisture Analysis for Iron Ore

    By A Harris, L Balzan

    Accurate measurements of the moisture content of iron ore have increasing importance in modern mining operations. Knowledge of the moisture content allows process control actions to be carried out to

    Jul 13, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Managing Expectations – From Buyer Beware to Buyer Be Aware

    By P J. Fairfield

    "This paper reflects on the author’s experiences in undertaking mining studies and reviewing mining projects and technical reports, particularly over the past five years, and the impact of recent chan

    Mar 8, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Assessing the volume change behaviour of red mud through laboratory and field testing

    By D J. Williams, A Shokouhi, A Naderian

    Extracting alumina from bauxite involves the production of fine-grained waste known as red mud. The highly alkaline red mud is usually neutralised by applying sea water, thickened to between 25% and 3

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Megablasts – Enabling Technologies in BHP Billiton Iron Ore

    By B Green

    With a focus on safe productive tonnes, there has been an ongoing drive to increase the productivity of the mining fleet across BHP Billiton. In response, a team from the Iron Ore business was formed

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Analysis and Adaptability of Belt Filter Presses and Other Technologies for Tailings Dewatering over a Range of Mineral Processes, Plant Designs, Conditions, Regions and Operating Philosophies

    By M S. Fenzel

    Increased environmental regulations and pressures have created changing and new demands for tailings management strategies in a variety of mining applications. Critical among these items is the dispos

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Projects

    By P Card

    “Let’s get discipline and quality into easy to understand evaluations!” Project Managers and MetPlant Operators accept poor quality evaluations because they are generally unaware of what they should

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Lump Ore Properties and Their Impact on Value-in-use in Ironmaking

    By T Honeyands, L Jelenich

    We are currently witnessing large fluctuations in the relative price of ironmaking raw materials brought on by changes in the dynamics of supply and demand, market conditions, environmental regulation

    Jul 13, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Reducing the Energy Required in Grinding Clinker to Cement – Some Case Studies

    By H Benzer

    Grinding clinker to finished cement consumes more energy than any other comminution process. World production of cement in 2009 was 2840 million tonnes and the energy required for comminution was 40-6

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Improved mining recovery with bulk ore sorting and MR technology

    By C Beal, S Singh

    Sensor-based bulk ore sorting is a form of preconcentration that autonomously measures and physically separates discrete bulk ‘pods’ of run of mine (‘ROM’) or primary crushed material. This case study

    Nov 10, 2020

  • AUSIMM
    Operational risk management and critical controls for interacting pit stages at Ok Tedi

    By J Isarua, R Mabiria

    The Ok Tedi copper and gold project, located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, commenced operations in 1983. The open cut mine has undergone several significant transformations throughout i

    May 5, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    The Merlin Zone – Rhenium Quality Assurance

    By D A. Sketchley

    The Merlin Zone, a 2008 high-grade Mo-Re discovery, is a part of the Mount Dore Deposit in the Eastern Succession of the Mount Isa Inlier in Queensland, Australia. Hosted by carbonaceous metapelites a

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Unmanned Aerial Robots for Remotely Operated and Autonomous Surveying in Inaccessible Underground Mine Voids

    By A Grace, C Sennersten, T Taylor, A Davie, R Lyu, D Pentecost, C A. Lindley, J Craig, L De Macedo Camargo

    Many underground mine void spaces are not suitable for human entry due to unprotected roofs, instability or having an unknown safety state (eg if they are many decades old). Investigations of these vo

    Nov 4, 2015

  • 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
    Accurately defining failure geometries and their variability

    By E J. Hancock, K H. B Chu

    Failures within hard rock underground excavations have historically been defined by a depth of failure, estimated in the field or through individual measurements, with a simplified failure geometry; s

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    The Paulsens Transformation – A Shining Light under a Northern Star

    By C Jones

    When the Paulsens operation was poised to be placed on care and maintenance, Bill Beament and the rest of the Northern Star Resources (NSR) team capitalised on the opportunity to send the Ashburton re

    Mar 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    The Use of Non-destructive Testing to Identify Defective Rock Bolts – A Case Study

    By B Jones, M Chappell

    Permanent rock bolts used to support rock tunnels are required to perform for the design life of the structure as a minimum. Quality of installation is critical to the performance over the life of the

    Sep 17, 2014