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  • AUSIMM
    Historical Challenges, Modern Solutions at Ballarat East

    By M Sykes

    Gold was initially discovered at Ballarat in 1851. After initial alluvial mining, underground quartz mining commenced in 1853, continuing until 1918. The historic miners were considered to be capable

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Selective Flotation of Chalcopyrite and Pyrite from a Mixed Copper Mineral Concentrate under Controlled Redox Potential Conditions

    By I Ametov, S Harmer, R Alford

    A process that allows selective flotation separation of low Cu/S ratio minerals (chalcopyrite and pyrite) from high Cu/S ratio minerals (bornite and chalcocite) from a mixed copper mineral concentrate

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Development of an iron ore analysis method applying assimilation reaction to coarse ore

    By Y M. Lee, Y Hong, B C. Kim

    Since sintered ore is the primary source for producing molten iron in the blast furnace process, maintaining stable quality despite the utilisation of low-grade iron ore is crucial. However, conventio

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Building Safe, Productive Cultures and Leadership

    By M I. Roberts

    Corporate and workplace culture, as many owners, directors, executives and managers know, is by far the most powerful determinant of productivity. It’s much more significant than buildings and equipme

    Jun 22, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Contract Commissioning and Operation of Western Areas’ Cosmic Boy Concentrator

    By C Dick

    Over the past three decades, mining operations have seen a significant increase in the use of contractors for mining, camp management and catering, recruitment, maintenance, power management, and comm

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Mining Grade Control ù Past, Present and Future

    The objectives of mining grade control are presented and examples of the techniques used in various open pit and underground mines are used to define the attributes of good grade control. Reasons are

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Gold-New Developments, Research, and the Future

    New 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

  • AUSIMM
    Reducing the Effect of Wind on Airblast Measurement During Blasting

    By K Henley

    One of the greatest practical difficulties of measuring airblast occurs when a significant wind is blowing onto the microphone. Small windscreens are usually used to mitigate the wind noise on the mic

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Geomechanical modelling of the Ernest Henry iron oxide copper gold deposit – identifying fluid pathways to predict potential mineralised zones

    By J G. McLellan, B Miller

    Copper and Gold mineralisation at the Ernest Henry deposit is bound by two controlling shears along the hanging wall and footwall margins. The shear zone geometries have been influenced by a large dio

    Sep 20, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Application of normative ore mineralogy to geological and metallurgical data sets at the Hera Au-Pb-Zn-Ag mine, New South Wales, Australia

    By A R. McKinnon

    The recently opened Hera Au-Pb-Zn-Ag mine in central New South Wales has provided an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the calculation of sulfide ore mineralogy using normative methods. Normative miner

    Sep 20, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Spontaneous Fire Risk Rating of a Colliery Proposed to be Developed by Short Wall Method of Mining

    By Sen S. K, Banerjee D. D, Nandy D. K

    It has been stressed that the intrinsic spon- taneous heating characteristics of a coal is not enough in predicting spontaneous fire risk of a mine. The influence of extraneous conditions created f

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    Prefeasibility Testing of Gold Ore Samples Prior to CIP Plant Design

    By K B. Quast

    During the prefeasibility stage of the mining cycle for a gold deposit, an evaluation of the ore leaching characteristics from various defined areas is essential prior to plant design. There are a num

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Sustainability Reporting and Mining - An Assessment of the State of Play for Environmental Indicators

    The global mining industry is perceived to be a world leader in sustainability reporting û with a 2008 Ernst & Young survey placing four mining companies in their top five performers in sustainabi

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    An Advanced Modelling Technique for Scale-Up of Batch Flotation Results to Plant Metallurgical Performance

    By O N. Savassi

    A rigorous methodology for prediction of flotation plant performance is presented, which is based on a standardised batch flotation test called the MFT. The work is part of the FLEET program, develope

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of Exploration Projects

    It is difficult to evaluate exploration properties in a manner that is transparent, repeatable and easily re-calculated to cater for different geological interpretations, but the risk-based assessment

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Dynamic grade control modelling processes at the Waihi Underground Gold Mine

    By A Whaanga, W Vigor-Brown

    IGO Ltd’s (IGO’s) Nova-Bollinger Deposit (Nova-Bollinger) is a magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt (NiCu-Co) sulfide deposit found 160 km east-north-east of the town of Norseman in Western Australia (WA). T

    Mar 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    The Coal Resources of New South Wales

    THE area of the State of New South Wales is not great, nevertheless it has very large and important Mineral Resources. This is the more noticeable when the values of the annual mineral production from

    Jan 1, 1926

  • AUSIMM
    Maximising resource utilisation in South Africa – the BIF story

    By A Singh, C Da Corte

    Banded Iron Formations or more commonly known as BIF are sedimentary rock formations with alternating silica-rich layers and iron-rich layers that are typically composed of iron oxides (hematite and m

    Nov 8, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Controlled Blasting for Civil Construction in an Urban Environment

    By R Domotor

    Brisbane’s Airport Link is Australia’s largest road infrastructure project, worth a total value of A$4.8 billion. The project is using surface and underground blasting to excavate hard volcanic r

    Nov 8, 2011

  • 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