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  • AUSIMM
    Water Conservation at Construction Projects

    By B Hannah, M Uriarte, F Labarca, C Madore, G Ganapathi, L Martin, T Haase

    BechtelÆs Mining and Metals projects across the globe are executed in remote arid and semi-arid countries where providing even basic water supplies impose considerable challenges. Opportunities for wa

    Nov 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    A thermodynamic and sustainability assessment of PCB recycling through the secondary Cu smelting process

    By A Kamaraj, M Mohanasundaram, R Kumar, P Tikare

    This study presents a comprehensive thermodynamic optimisation and sustainability analysis of the secondary copper smelting process for Waste Printed Circuit Board (WPCB) recycling. The study investig

    Aug 21, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Specification and Selection of Hand-held Gas Monitors (Detectors) for Underground Mines

    By D J. Brake

    There are many sources of gas in underground mines including development and production blasting, strata gases, spontaneous combustion, diesel equipment, chemicals used for a wide range of functions,

    Aug 31, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The practicalities of effective stress measurement in rock

    By I Gray

    This paper examines the practical limitations that affect the measurement of stress in rock. As most rock stress measurement is conducted through the invasive process of drilling a hole in a rock mass

    Nov 30, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    What is the Future for Magnetite Projects in Australia and Why Have Some of the New Projects Been So Problematic?

    By D Connelly

    Magnetite orebodies generally means mining lower grade iron ores, crushing and grinding with significant energy costs in processing and the capital costs being significantly higher than for direct shi

    Jul 13, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Planned Field Investigation of Connectivity between the Condamine Alluvium and Walloon Coal Measures

    By S Gossmann, J Barlow, S Denner

    "Unconventional gas resources, including coal seam gas (CSG) reservoirs, can be located above and below aquifers that provide groundwater for agricultural, industrial, urban and other uses. Developmen

    Nov 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Effective Contracting Through Partnering

    By Stewart R. D, Lawrence W, Youl M. J

    The trend towards contracting by major coal mining companies such as BHP Coal and MIM Ltd is examined. Reasons why this trend is occurring are discussed and the concept of partnering is examined.

    Jan 1, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    Improving Blasting by a Team Approach at the Henty Gold Mine

    By R Wedmaier

    Henty Gold Mine is an underground operation producing 100 000 ounces of gold per annum. The original mining method used was flatbacking with paste fill. However, a non-entry method û uphole benching û

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Dust Mitigation - Changing the Paradigm

    By J Visser

    Dust mitigation has long been seen as nothing more than managing a nuisance issue, but the reality is that poor dust management can lead to one or more of the following negative consequences: an incre

    Aug 12, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Critical Assessment of Machine Learning Algorithms as Estimation Techniques for a Polymetallic Ore Deposit

    By D Misra, R Ganguli, S Bandopadhyay

    The objective of this paper is to assess the accuracy and applicability of recent state-of-art methods such as the machine learning algorithms (MLA) for mineral resource estimation. Conventional metho

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    A Dynamic Sediment Simulation to Predict the Variability of Suspended Solids Concentrations over Life-of-Mine for Application to a Risk-based Environmental Assessment

    By M Ind, B Usher

    Environmental regulators are increasingly adopting risk-based approaches to protect aquatic ecosystems. The Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (ANZECC) and the Agriculture

    Jul 16, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Narrow Vein Education - Back to the Future?

    By S Hall

    Mining schools around the world, many unfortunately now closed, were often established to teach the techniques of narrow vein mining and associated processing to students studying part-time while work

    Mar 26, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Selling Australia's Crude Oil Production

    In 1984/85 financial year Australia produced 529 thousand barrels per day (kbd) of crude oil. By far the major contribution (453 kbd) was light waxy oil from offshore Gippsland, Victoria. When the

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    Paper No. 122. The Employment if Unskilled Labour in Mines And The Necessity For Training to The Miner's Occupation.

    The subject of my paper is one which, I am certain, has exercised the mind of every man on whom depends the safe and economical conduct of mining operations; particularly in this district where the en

    Jan 1, 1903

  • AUSIMM
    Is a 2.5áper cent Success Rate Good Enough? Traditional Mine Development Methods have the Tail Wagging the Dog

    By J Jackson, D C. Curry, A C. Keith

    Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows that since 2006 the balance of capital costs associated with mine development has become weighted greater than 75 per cent to enabling infrastructure a

    Sep 29, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Mount Carlton comminution circuit design, start-up and optimisation

    By B Putland, I Lovatt, D Schwann, A Cervillin

    The Mount Carlton project in Queensland's North East sits on a high-sulphidation epithermal style deposit rich in gold, copper and silver. Mt Carlton is an open pit mining operation with ore proce

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Mining Truck Operations in Association with Truch-Jig Apparatus

    This paper describes a mine truck hauling process called "Truck Jigging" which is currently the subject of a process patent application.The investigation explores the production and cost adv

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    Reductive Leaching of Manganese Containing Material with Pyrite in a Mild Sulphuric Acid Medium

    By Parida K. M, Paramguru R. K

    Laboratory-scale studies aimed at developing a process for solubilising manganese values from a low grade pyrolusite containing material using low grade pyrite, both available in India, are described.

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Screen Media Aperture Size Measurement Using MetsoÆs Screen Tracker

    By G van Niekerk, M Wortley

    Screening is a critical part of many mineral processing circuits and keeping the aperture of the screening media within specification is vital to ensure efficient performance of the processing plant.

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Tailings process optimisation through automation and controls integration

    By R Williams, M Baxter, D Zink, R Cunningham

    The purpose of this paper is to discuss the efficient operation of a tailings dewatering circuit comprising a thickener and filter press through proper control and automation. It is common to see thi

    Jul 23, 2018