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  • AUSIMM
    What Have we Learnt About Managing Rock Burst Risks?

    By Y Potvin

    Underground mines in Australia are progressively operating at greater depth, sometimes in conditions where mine induced stresses are very high. In such conditions, the seismic activity often becomes i

    Mar 21, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Embedding Geometallurgy into Mine Planning Practices – Practical Examples at Olympic Dam

    By H Bruyn, K Ehrig, V Liebezeit, A Robertson, M Smith, D Grant

    "The Olympic Dam geometallurgy program has generated a large quantity of data that has been used to create a geometallurgically enabled block model. An ongoing challenge is to convert data into usable

    Jun 15, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Multicomponent modelling and simulation of the Minas Rio iron ore grinding circuit

    By T M. Campos, J Silva, L M. Tavares, J Lichter, L P. Alves, B K. N Rocha, H D. G Turrer

    The depletion of the richest ore deposits and the increase in number of mining projects involving deposits with complex mineralogy, higher competence and lower grade has led to an eminent need for imp

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Effect of Dynamic Loading and Tunnel Support in Deep Level Mines

    By K Le Bron

    Fatalities that occurred because of rock falls in off-reef excavations (excluding shafts) over the last three years range between ten per cent and 20 per cent of the total number of fatalities that ha

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Rock Cuttings for Railways-Construction Methods and Geology

    Railway cuttings require the highest care in design and construction, as the pro- bability of failure concept does not allow any risks to be taken with hundreds of lives being dependent on continued

    Jan 1, 1979

  • AUSIMM
    The Application of Advanced Undercutting at PT Freeport IndonesiaÆs Deep Ore Zone Mine

    By A Sinuhaji, R Poedjono, G Flumerfelt

    PT Freeport Indonesia is currently building the DOZ mine. It is a 25 000 tonne/day block caving operation which is scheduled to reach designed production levels by the fourth quarter of 2002. This pap

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Multi-factor integrated data analytics and data-driven decision-making for ground control management

    By R Carstens, L Munsamy, L Prinsloo, C Huang, C Zhang, R Liang, I Canbulat

    With recent advances in machine learning, data-based automated decision-making has been proven successful with promising outcomes in many industries. Its application in the mining sector can be ground

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Monitoring of M10000 IsaMill™ Process Performance by Passive Acoustic Emissions

    By A McEwan, J Masters, C A. Jackson, A Catanzano, V Sharp, M Millen, S Rainey, S J. Spencer, G Roberts

    A passive acoustic emission (AE) monitoring system has been developed and trialled on two M10000 IsaMillsTM. The analyser detects AE stress waves generated by grinding media impacts with the mill line

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    A guide to maximising ball mill circuit classification system efficiency (CSE), for operators and equipment designers

    By O Arafat, R E. McIvor, K M. Bartholomew

    It is well known in the industry that good classification system performance is vital to efficient ball mill circuit performance. But what is meant by good classification system performance, and how i

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Development of a Sustainability Roadmap for the Kwinana Industrial Area, Western Australia

    By M John

    The Kwinana Industrial Area (KIA) is by far the largest and most diverse industrial processing region (with supporting industries) in Western Australia. As with elsewhere in Australia (and globally),

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    A Fatigue Equivalent Static Load Methodology for the Fatigue Life Estimation of Load Haul Dumpers

    A methodology for the fatigue life estimation of load haul dumpers, employed in underground platinum mines, has been developed and applied. This method entails the quantification of operating conditio

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Metallurgical Accounting in the Northparkes Concentrator - A Case Study

    By R Morrison, R Dunn

    In many mineral processing operations, the reported production figures for an accounting period may not make the best use of available data. While most of the mathematical approaches, such as check-in

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Eight-Dimensional Planning Construction of an Integrated Model for Mine Planning Involving Constructability

    By E Rubio, N Morales

    A common practice in the mining industry is to decompose the planning process into different tasks, so the overall process and specific schedules can be constructed easily. Nevertheless, currently the

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Application of Virtual Reality Technology and Scientific Visualisation to the Understanding of Block Cave Mining Systems

    By J Tibbett, F T. Suorineni, B Hebblewhite

    Block caving is an important mining method for the future economic exploitation of large, low-grade, steeply dipping orebodies. While block caving is not a new method, there are still many unknowns su

    Nov 5, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    The Median versus the Mean Fragment Size and Other Issues with the Kuz-Ram Model

    By F Ouchterlony

    Soviet precursors to Cunningham’s Kuz-Ram model from 1983 are described. They are rooted in the mean fragment size and Rosin-Rammler (RR) fits to sieving data and rely on approximations. Three version

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Using Borehole Radar to Refine Orebody Interpretations in a Narrow Vein Gold Deposit

    By G Morgan, C Kemp

    In December 2010, a trial of borehole radar technology was conducted to test the usefulness of the technique in better refining the position and geometry of narrow vein orebodies away from the primary

    Mar 26, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Avoiding Bias when Using Vezins for Sampling Dusty Materials

    By P Cleary, G K. Robinson, J Hilton, P Wilson

    Concern has been expressed that Vezins can be biased when used for sampling fine materials if the cutter speed is as high as the 0.6 m/s which is often used. Using modelling techniques that consider a

    Aug 21, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Mechanics of Rock/Tool Interaction in Disc Rock Cutting

    By M Hood, X S. L, W J. T Daniel, H Gurgenci

    It is believed that disc cutter shape affects rock fracture and therefore cutter performance and cutter life. However, the current generation of disc cutters is made of hardened steel and these cutter

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Economic recovery and upgrade of metals from middling and tailing streams

    By M Hourn, G Anderson, V Lawson, P Voigt, D Mallah

    As mine head grades decline and orebodies become more complex, traditional mineral processing techniques and flow sheets to achieve saleable concentrate become more difficult to design and construct.

    Sep 11, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Roadway and Pillar Design Considerations for Development and Longwall Extraction at Central Colliery, Queensland

    By Ward B

    Central Colliery was developed to exploit large underground reserves in the German Creek lease. It was planned from the outset as a retreating longwall operation and is the first longwall mine in

    Jan 1, 1986