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  • SME
    Drill & Blast Implementation Case Study at Multiple Freeport-Mcmoran Sites

    By L. Gutierrez, S. Gering, C. Calderon-Arteaga

    "Drill and blast represent the most important, and sometimes the costliest processes in the mine. The cost of drilling and blasting operations greatly contributes to the “high cost trends of the overa

    Jan 5, 2017

  • SME
    Mining Heritage: Preservation And Sustainable Development Of An Outstanding Universal Value

    By J. Kretschmann

    Mining heritage can be of outstanding value for many regions around the world, because mining has been done for thousands of years for the benefit of mankind and its development. This paper presents a

    Feb 27, 2013

  • CIM
    Blast Movement – A Value-Based Evaluation of the Benefits and Comparison Between Blast Movement Modeling (3D) and In-Situ Polygon Node Translation (2D)

    By Enzo Angeles, Desmond Nanchengwa, Lee Julian, Julian Ruiseco

    Since the early 1980s, surface hard-rock mining companies have searched for a blast movement model to enable grade control optimization efforts. Significant time and money were spent attempting to cre

    Jan 1, 2023

  • SME
    Connecting Three Pump Stations, with Tunnels, on an Island, in Charleston, SC - NAT2022

    By Justin Kolster, Donald Benjamin, Kyle White

    Expansion of the Plum Island Wastewater Treatment Plant requires interconnection of three operating pump stations using only two existing 10-ft diameter shafts for access. These two existing shafts re

    Dec 1, 2022

  • ISEE
    Vibration Control In Open Cut Mine Through Pre-Loading Applying Wireless Detonators

    By C. Feliciano, M. Cavalcante

    A large iron ore open pit mine in Brazil operates with reduced blast sizes, due to the imminence of red alerts in the rainy season and the proximity of plant and dam structures that demand control of

    Jan 1, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    QAQC – proactive Quality Management (QM) supporting reconciliation results

    By O Dominguez

    Significant value can be added to ore supplied from the mine to the mill by measuring its quality in real time and performing grade control additional to that within the mine. Responsibility for ore q

    Mar 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Use of drone and LiDAR technology for mapping underground voids

    By D Woolmer

    Since January 2019, BHP Olympic Dam have been trialling the use of a drone based LiDAR mapping system for the purpose for surveying stope voids. This new technology utilises Simultaneous Location and

    Mar 15, 2021

  • ABM
    Desenvolvimento E Implantação Do Modelo De Planejamento E Gestão De Estoques De Mro Através Do Lean Six Sigma Na Arcelormittal Tubarão E Vega

    By Ricardo Rodrigues Grizotti, Laudelino Cota Fonseca Junior, Marcio Basilio Xaviere

    O projeto tem por objetivo desenvolver a padronização e implantação de um Modelo de Governança de Planejamento e Gestão de Estoques de MRO (Manutenção, Reparo e Operação) bem como um Modelo de Reposiç

    Oct 1, 2019

  • SME
    The Upper Hidden Basin Diversion Project Design and Construction at Terror Lake—Kodiak, Alaska - NAT2024

    By Jennifer King, Julius Strid, Steve Brandon

    The Upper Hidden Basin Diversion (UHBD) tunnel was driven approximately 1.2 miles by the drill-and-blast method primarily through massive granite bedrock geology for the Kodiak Electric Association, I

    Jun 23, 2024

  • ABM
    Aprimorando Treinamentos Na Indústria Com O Uso De Realidade Virtual

    By Renato Cortes, Claudia Lopes, Ewerton Campos, ALEXANDRE CALDELLAS BARBOSA

    São diversas as razões para se utilizar a realidade virtual (RV) em treinamentos, dentre elas pode-se destacar a redução de custos, redução de riscos ao ambiente e envolvidos e também a possibilidade

    Oct 1, 2019

  • SME
    Remote De-Tensioning of Tieback Anchors After Structural Completion - RETC2023

    By Sean Peterfreund, Grant Finn, Ty Jahn

    For urban underground development involving tieback anchors for excavation support, authorities having jurisdiction typically require tiebacks to be de-tensioned before project completion. This paper

    Jun 13, 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
    Application of an Integrated Liberation Leach Model for Process Optimisation

    By T D. H McGrath, R Byleveld, W P. Staunton, J J. Eksteen

    "The Gold Technology Group at Curtin University through the AMIRA P420 series of projects has recently developed the integrated liberation leach model (ILLM) for optimisation of gold plants. The model

    Oct 10, 2016

  • SME
    Molybdenum Leach Optimization

    By J. Andres

    "Freeport-McMoRan’s Sierrita operations refines molybdenum disulfide in a ferric chloride leach to remove impurities. To understand bottlenecks in the leach process and the true capacity of the leach

    Jan 1, 2015

  • IMPC
    Developing a Design Modification for Improved Froth Flotation Performance through Minimising Turbulence at the Pulp-Froth Interface

    By A. Morrison, P. Brito-Parada

    "The separation of valuable and gangue minerals according to their surface hydrophobicity in a froth flotation tank occurs in both its pulp and froth phases. In the pulp phase, hydrophobic particles m

    Jan 1, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Mine to Tunnel Scale Discontinuum Simulation of Repeated Dynamic Loading of Mine Excavations

    Underground excavations are subjected to complex stress changes caused by nearby mining, but may also be affected by repeated dynamic loading from blasting and seismic events. In some cases, the combi

    Nov 25, 2010

  • SME
    The Use Of Cross-Pit Spreader Systems At Texas Utilities Mining Company

    Innovative mining technology came to Texas in the form of bucket wheel excavator/cross-pit spreader systems. Texas Utilities Mining Company put the first system to work at its Big Brown Mine in Decemb

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Discussion of “Study on correlation of quantified coal rank with self-heating temperature”

    By J. Grubb

    "The undertakings described in the paper titled “Study on correlation of quantified coal rank with self-heating temperature” by Wang and Luo in the November 2015 issue of Mining Engineering (Wang and

    Jun 1, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Practical Considerations and Shortcuts in Sampling

    By D M. Frantois-Bongarton

    "A few situations are first reviewed where practical shortcuts lead to acceptable solutions where none seemed to be possible. These include: The solving of many complex sampling optimisation problem

    Aug 21, 2012

  • CIM
    Digital Twin in Mineral Processing

    By C. Cristonffanini, S. Nazari

    "In the past, simulation was considered to be an offline tool disconnected from plant operation. Advancements in the computation power combined with utilizing physics and chemistry sciences have allow

    Jan 1, 2019