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  • AUSIMM
    Distinguishing Intrusion-Related from Orogenic Gold Systems

    By R J. Goldfarb

    Reduced intrusion-related gold deposits have become a new, low-grade, large-tonnage exploration target during the last decade. The best recognized examples of such deposits are recognized throughout t

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Flotation Energy Consumption and Opportunities for Improvement

    By B Murphy

    Traditionally comminution optimisation has been focused on energy minimisation, whereas flotation optimisation has been focused on recovery improvement. One of the largest, if not the largest, operati

    Jul 15, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    The Direct and Indirect Effects of the Reagent Suite on Froth Stability in Laboratory Scale Batch Flotation Tests

    The Direct and Indirect Effects of the Reagent Suite on Froth Stability in Laboratory Scale Batch Flotation Tests

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Probabilistic Slope Design and its Use in Iron Ore Pit Optimisations

    The current economic climate and demand for iron ore has resulted in mine operators being prepared to accept aggressive slope designs and associated failures provided that they can be quantified (ie v

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Using Science to Develop a Sustainable Management Policy for Acid Sulfate Soils in Queensland, Australia

    By B Powell

    Coastal acid sulfate soils (ASS) are wetland soils and unconsolidated sediments that contain iron sulfides which, when exposed to atmospheric oxygen in the presence of water, form sulfuric acid. ASS f

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Research and Tests on Improving the Technology of Enrichment of the Copper-Molybdenum Ore

    Research and Tests on Improving the Technology of Enrichment of the Copper-Molybdenum Ore

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Opportunities for the Placer Gold Industry

    The placer gold industry has experienced a roller-coaster history incorporating four major boom eras. The first, 'hand-methods' boom arose in the mid-19th Century from application of an old

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    The Strategic Dilemma for Mineral Engineering Service Providers to the Resources Industry in the Present High Demand Environment

    By A J. Broome

    Since 2003, there has been an unprecedented growth in the demand for engineering, technical and project services in the mineral industries. This demand for services became evident in Australia earlier

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Hypersaline-Induced Reduction in Cyanide Ecotoxicity at Gold Operations, thereby Obviating Detoxification Plants

    By G B. Smith, D Hillier, T Gibbons, D B. Donato, M D. Adams, S Davies, R S. Schulz

    Responsible management of cyanide solutions and tailings on gold processing plants worldwide is an important aspect to these operations and is regulated via guidelines provided by the International Cy

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    The discovery of the QTS Central ore system, CSA mine, Cobar, NSW, Australia

    By E Apaza, R Neumayr

    This paper aims to summarise the discovery of the QTS Central resource, a previously unidentified +1 Mt inferred resource that lies between two major CSA resource systems.The 1.7 Mt at 5.76 per cent C

    Sep 20, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding Damage Source Mechanisms in a Caving System Using Virtual Reality Scientific Visualisation

    By B K. Hebblewhite, F T. Suorineni, J D. Tibbett

    Block caving is an underground mining method that can provide high production capacities at low operating costs. This enables the profitable extraction of massive, low-grade orebodies and attracts ind

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Design of Grade Control Sampling Programs for Underground Gold Mines

    By S C. Dominy

    Grade control programs aim to deliver economic tonnes to the mill via accurate definition of ore and waste. The foundation of a successful program is high quality sampling supported by geology and a s

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Updraught Sintering

    By Green A. D M

    The establishment of the Imperial Smelting Furnace at Sulphide Coporation Pty. Limited for the smelting of zinc and lead made it necessary to design and install sintering capacity to produce approxima

    Jan 1, 1964

  • AUSIMM
    Epithermal Deposits and Analogous Geothermal Systems - A Physical Size Comparison with Implications for Exploration

    By J L. Mauk

    Low sulfidation epithermal deposits are important sources of gold and silver, and are considered the extinct analogues of modern geothermal systems. The aerial extents of alteration halos that surroun

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Study on Mineral Processing of Refractory Copper-Nickel Ore

    Study on Mineral Processing of Refractory Copper-Nickel Ore

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    The Metallurgical Development of an Enargite-Bearing Deposit

    The Metallurgical Development of an Enargite-Bearing Deposit

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    A batch elutriation technique for the density-based fractionation of iron ore

    By D M. Hunter, S M. Iveson, K P. Galvin

    For low density materials such as coal, density-based fractionation of particles via the sink-float method is relatively simple due to the availability of liquids of suitable density; however, for hig

    Jul 24, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Beyond Rock Mass Characterisation – the Impact of Geology on Block Cave Mining

    By A Webster, T Murphy

    Block cave mining, in its broadest sense, has transitioned from an orebody/rock mass determined method of extraction, to a low-cost and high production mining method that may be applied to any large o

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Geochemical Mass Balance and Characterisation of Pollutants Draining from a Nickel Mine Site

    By N Dube, K L. Sandvik, C Mutevhe

    Trojan Nickel Mine is the largest producer of Ni, Cu and Co in Zimbabwe. The mine has operated a nickel flotation concentrator and base metal refinery continuously since 1969, creating 28 million tonn

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Accurately estimating heat load from conveyed rock

    By M A. Tuck

    The dominant heat loads in a deep underground mine are the surrounding rock mass, autocompression and machinery. In addition heat can be contributed to by other sources. Many block cave, sublevel cave

    Aug 28, 2017