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  • AUSIMM
    Setting for Success – Private Equity Exploration and Mining Project Buy-in to Listing and Divestment

    By A Keogh, P Allen, P Stoker

    "An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation. Private equity (PE) firms are comparatively free of mandatory requirements for the level an

    Mar 18, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Challenges and opportunities in accelerating electrification of underground heavy haulage equipment

    By J Webb

    The mining industry is relatively niche and complex compared to other global industries in its safety and operating environment. Whilst some of the technology required to decarbonise the mining indust

    Mar 29, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Cost Effective Concentrator Design

    By G Lane

    This paper discusses the factors that contribute to the cost effective design of a concentrator. Concentrator design and layout outcomes are functions of the team (engineer’s and owner’s) participati

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Fundamentally Transforming the Economic and Sustainability Signature of Mining Assets

    By M Jones

    The past 100 years the mining industry can be characterised by a focus on increasing financial returns often to the detriment of social, human, manufactured and environmental capitals. Despite the sus

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Control of Water Discharge From Mine Ventilation Shafts

    Problems caused by water discharge from surface mine ventilation shafts can be significant and are usually unforseen. The discharged water is often hyper-saline or acidic and can cause environmental d

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding the Role of Production Drilling and Drilled Stocks in Efficient Operation of a Sublevel Cave Mine

    By C Beal

    Proper understanding and management of production drilling in sublevel cave (SLC) mines is essential for meeting production targets and for avoiding inefficiencies that could lead to costly bottleneck

    Mar 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Integrated Resource Asset Management - A Holistic Approach to Information Technology in Mining Operations

    Over the last ten years geological and mining software products have evolved greatly. Software companies developing such products have focussed almost exclusively on the development of technical aspec

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Block Cave Undercutting - Aims, Strategies, Methods and Management

    Many block caving operations experience difficulties during undercutting, resulting in draw horizon damage, production loss and extensive drift repairs for the life of the block cave. This paper deals

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Routes to Stainless Steel With Improved Energy Efficiencies

    By S Jahanshahi

    In an earlier LCA study, the authors showed that the electricity consumption of the electric furnaces used in the production of the ferronickel and ferrochrome feedstocks made significant contribution

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Analysis of the melting behaviour of CaF2-free welding fluxes using hot thermocouple technique

    By S Basu, S L. A Gowravaram

    CaF2 has been a common constituent in a wide variety of welding fluxes, including those used for submerged arc welding (SAW). The widespread use of CaF2 stems from its role in lowering the liquidus te

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Design and Use of Backfill for Support in Polish Coal Mines (80b269b9-766a-4488-9ab9-f96403287b88)

    By J Palarski

    Over the last 100 years in the Polish mining industry considerable work has been done to assess optimum slurry, develop flexible delivery systems and adjust the fill technology to a wide variety of

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Simulation Aided Engineering – Integration of Monitoring, Modelling and Planning

    By D Beck

    Open access to forecasts of mine geotechnical performance in the form of open databases of model results has been considered risky in the past, with a concern that the results will not be understood o

    Mar 21, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Approaches to Reporting Grade Uncertainty in High-Nugget Gold Vein Projects

    By W B. Edgar, S C. Dominy

    High-nugget effect vein-gold systems are generally considered to be one of the most challenging of deposit types to evaluate and exploit. To potential investors and mining companies, they are viewed a

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Post-mining Land Use Options in the Appalachian Coal Mining Region of the USA

    By J Skousen, C E. Zipper

    "Prior to the 1950s in the USA, surface coalmines were generally left without any reclamation. As government regulations advanced, mine operators were required to backfill the area and plant grasses o

    Jul 16, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Determination of the Sampling Liberation Diameter in a High-Grade Coarse Gold Ore by High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography

    By I M. Platten, Y Xie, R-M F. Bell, S C. Dominy, L E. Howard, R C. A Minnitt

    For any resource evaluation program, the collection and processing of representative samples for assaying is critical. Sampling, sample preparation and assay protocols must be designed to suit the sty

    Aug 21, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Distinguishing Monolayer and Multilayer Adsorption of Thiol Collectors With ToF-SIMS and XPS

    By R N. Lamb, A N. Buckley

    Experiments have been carried out to establish whether time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is able to differentiate monolayer and multilayer coverage of thiol collectors on sulfi

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Modelling of an Integrated Waste Storage Facility

    By P Edmondson, S Narendranathan, S Setchell

    The complexities of mining in current economic conditions, where ore extraction schedules are varied on a weekly basis so as to ensure constant supply to the process plant, can result in a number of s

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The Use of Finite Element Modelling to Better Understand Electrostatic Separation

    By R A. Pax

    Electrostatic separation is a core requirement for the beneficiation of mineral sands suites to provide valuable product. Although the basis of electrostatic separation has been understood for some ti

    Oct 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Influence of Solar Radiation on Evaporation for Three-Dimensional Flux Boundary Modelling of Soil Cover Systems on Waste Rock Dumps

    By G W. Wilson

    Net solar radiation is one of the key factors affecting evaporation from soil covers on waste rock dumps. While net solar radiation is normally taken as a uniform parameter over a site for modelling p

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    The necessary role of the geologist in geotechnical data gathering

    By P B. Hills

    Almost a quarter of a century since Bridges (1993) documented techniques for the assessment of ground conditions in a seminal paper in the Proceedings Second International Mining Geology Conference, t

    Sep 20, 2017