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  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of Grinding Medium Wear in Stirred Mills

    Evaluation of Grinding Medium Wear in Stirred Mills The standard fine grinding machines in the minerals industry are stirred mills whose performance largely depends on the competency of the grinding

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Measurement and Assessment of Bulk Explosive Products

    By G Cavanough, A Olsson, J Rock, A C. Torrance

    There are various methods currently in use to determine detonation performance of bulk explosive products including velocity of detonation (VOD), high speed photographic analysis, fragmentation analys

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The Use of Geotechnical Instrumentation to Optimise an Engineered Mine Design at Beaconsfield Gold Mine, Tasmania

    By P B. Hills, R J. Walton

    Geotechnical instrumentation has been implemented as a key step for monitoring and optimising an engineered mine design for managing seismicity at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine. Measurements of displacem

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Colorimetric Determination of Tungsten in Scheelite Ores and Mill Products

    Most analysts determining tungsten trioxide in low grade samples are aware that colorimetric procedures do not possess the inherent disadvantages of gravimetric methods operating on milligram quantiti

    Jan 1, 1958

  • AUSIMM
    Making Studies Work – Organisation, Communication and Management

    By P McCarthy

    "This paper is based on 30 years of involvement in feasibility studies as a participant, study manager and the leader of a firm that provides study components and overall study management. The followi

    Mar 8, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Introducing HPGR quaternary crushers in a Russian magnetite operation – challenges and solutions

    By B C. Povey, K Lagutin, M Mryasov, V Noll

    The current Stoilensky magnetite concentrator comprises a three-stage crushing circuit followed by three stages of ball milling, grinding and concentration to produce a magnetite concentrate with 66.5

    Sep 11, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Use of Electronic Detonators at Cracow Gold Mine

    By N Strong

    Cracow is a high-grade; low-tonnage underground gold mine located approximately 500 km north-west of Brisbane in Central Queensland. It is a steeply dipping, narrow vein, epithermal gold and silver de

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    JK Drop Weight Parameters - A Statistical Analysis of their Accuracy and Precision, and the Effect on SAG Mill Comminution Circuit Simulation

    By T J. Napier-Munn, T Perkins

    The JK Drop Weight test was developed at the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) in the early 1990s as a means of characterising ore for the purposes of AG/SAG mill and crusher modelli

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Application of Genetic Algorithms for Reliability Assessment of Two Mine Hoisting Systems

    This paper discusses the application of a computerised model based on genetic algorithms (GAs), called GenRel, for reliability assessment of underground mine hoisting systems. The purpose of this pape

    Dec 6, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Economics of Mine Planning and Equipment Selection

    This paper examines some of the fundamental economics of mining - in particular, for optimisation studies, for production rate determination and for reserve estimates.It includes introductory discussi

    Dec 6, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Real-Time Simulation in Process Engineering - Dream or Reality?

    Computation is believed to be a powerful tool in scaling-up chemical processes and in designing materials, however, is being challenged by low predictability and limited scalability. This presentation

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Super Caves – Benefits, Considerations and Risks

    By I Ross, C deWolfe

    Block caving has been the favoured mining method for large underground hard rock mines for the last few decades. The orebody must be of a size large enough to cave and generally amenable to a caving m

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Effectively linking mining geology with waste management – a case study from western Tasmania

    By A Parbhakar-Fox, B G. Lottermoser

    Management of solid mine wastes, particularly waste rock, requires careful planning to reduce the likelihood of sulfide oxidation, and generation of acid rock drainage (ARD). Waste management strategi

    Sep 20, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    An Application of Simultaneous Optimisation – Improving the Payback Period of a Zinc-Copper Open Cut Project

    By D J. Thobaven

    Project financing challenges caused by declining commodity prices have heightened the need to improve project metrics such as minimising capital payback and maximising net present value (NPV). Khnaigu

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Gold Mining and Dairy Farming - Effective Land Restoration Processes - Poutini Gold Project 1993-1998

    Rehabilitation, reclamation and restoration are all terms used to describe the repair of land after mining. Here, restoration is used to mean restoring the land's original use, capability or prod

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Prediction of Acid Gas Generation in the Petroleum Industry

    By M R. Asef

    Although generation of environmentally harmful hydrogen sulfide is considered to be related to sour gas fields, sweet gas reservoirs and waste fluids, travertine springs and geothermal fields may also

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Geotechnical strata characterisation using geophysics and its application for coal mine design

    By T Medhurst

    Recent developments in geophysical borehole log analysis using the Geophysical Strata Rating (GSR) are now routinely used in a number Australian coal mining operations. This allows development of 3D g

    Nov 30, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Beneficiation Studies of Dolomitic Rock Phosphate in Pursuit of Zero Waste Technology - A Case Study

    Beneficiation Studies of Dolomitic Rock Phosphate in Pursuit of Zero Waste Technology - A Case Study

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Transition of mechanical cooling refrigerants

    By T Roberts

    The transition of mechanical cooling refrigerants from their inception in the 1800s through to the current day has been driven by several factors. Original refrigerants such as sulfur and carbon dioxi

    Oct 12, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Optimisation of cemented rock fill strength for open stope support

    By J Player, R de Vries, E Villaescusa, H Saw, R Hassell

    The use of cemented rock fill (CRF) for support of open stope walls has increased in the Australian underground mines operations over the last five years due in part to its low capital cost. In open s

    Oct 16, 2017