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  • AUSIMM
    Adaptation of an Open Pit Optimiser for Underground Strategic Planning

    By M Bloss, B Roberts

    BHP Billiton Olympic Dam required a well-tested software product suitable for strategic optimisation and scheduling of options for a potential underground mining project. The company has a standard so

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Challenges and Opportunities for Constructed Stream Diversions in the Bowen Basin, Central Queensland

    By K White, R Hardie, J Merritt, B Kirsch, R Lucas

    Constructed stream diversions are a common element of mine sites across Australia. A review of constructed stream diversion performance in the Bowen Basin funded by the Australian Coal Association Res

    Nov 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Optimisation of Drill and Blast for Mill Throughput Improvement at Ban Houayxai Mine

    By D Symonds, S S. Kanchibotla, L Kennelly, G McNamara, J Gaunt, B Adiyansyah

    Ban Houayxai is a gold-silver mine operated by Phu Bia Mining Limited in Laos since 2012. The first two years of operation processed predominately soft oxidised ore but subsequent years were expected

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Loading Mechanics of the æCanÆ and Implications for Improved Strength and Stiffness Properties

    Improved roof control in high deformation tailgate environments has been achieved over the last decade through development of stiffer and increased capacity standing support products. æThe CanÆ is one

    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
    Global Resource Estimation and Change of Support at the Enterprise Gold Mine, Pine Creek, Northern Territory - Application of the Geostatistical Discrete Gaussian Model

    By Sans H

    The geostatistical Discrete Gaussian (DG) model is demonstrated to be capable of providing an effective means of implementing change of support for Enterprise-style mineralisation and thus providing

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Dynamic Pit and Waste Dump Schedule Optimisation at Tropicana Gold Mine

    By S Graskoski, S Craig, C Myburgh

    Too often in mine planning, maximising revenue-generating material takes precedence over minimising costs. The ability to target both revenue and cost optimisation enables mine plans to fulfil corpora

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Design of mine workings under surface waters in New South Wales

    By Laxaminarayan Holla

    Significant coal reserves in New South Wales lie underneath major bodies of natural and stored surface waters. In order that mining can occur safely and without any adverse effect on the surface, vari

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Activities of NiO in Solid Solutions of Ternary System MgO-NiO-SiO2

    By Kuwasaki N, Mitsune Y

    Many activity measurements of components in liquid oxides have been reported in the field of slag chemistry. However, very little is known about the thermodynamic behavior of compo- nents in oxide

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AUSIMM
    Effect of solid-solved FeO and MnO on hydration of free MgO in steelmaking slag

    By N Kado, T Iwama, R Inoue, S Ueda

    Steelmaking slags are usually used as roadbed and civil engineering materials. However, the expansion phenomenon, which is caused by the volume expansion during hydration of free CaO and free MgO cont

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Roasting - A Study on Environmental Aspects, Off-Gas, Effluents and Residue Treatment

    By M Runkel, J Hammerschmidt, A Holmstr÷m, A Charitos, J Gnntner

    "Roasting of sulfide concentrates and refractory ores is an important process step in the production of metals and chemicals. Sulfides of iron, zinc, copper and other metals are oxidised with air betw

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Old Stopes and New Simulations – A Structural Modelling and Resource Estimation Case Study of the Edna May Gold Mine, Western Australia

    By P Hodkiewicz

    Recent structural interpretations based on historic stope shapes were used to develop a rapid and innovative method to domain and simulate structurally complex, high-grade gold veins at depth in the E

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of Spontaneous Combustion Incidents

    Heatings, fires and explosions in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland coal mines since 1972, are reviewed. Geological and mine settings are outlined. Where available, gas analysis and critical decisi

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (Iron and Steel Works)

    By Kirkhouse C. B

    Soon after the Broken Hill Limited started operations at their Iron and Steel Works at Newcastle, NSW, it was found necessary to install a mill for rolling small merchant bars, rounds, etc.An arrangem

    Jan 1, 1935

  • AUSIMM
    A Tracer Study of Discharge Segregation from a Paul Wurth Hopper

    By Jones JJ

    A laboratory study of size segregation is described using a model of a Paul Wurth hopper industrailly employed for blast furnace charg- ing purposes. Experimental charge materials used in the study

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    The Demonstration of Electronic Systems to Assist in the Management of a Significant Incident

    By R Moreby

    This paper is a demonstration of the techniques developed during an Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) funded research project aimed to develop aids, principally computer based, to a

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Real-Time Risk Analysis and Hazard Management

    Safety remains a critical priority for the Australian mineral resource industry and will receive increased focus in the future. This is particularly evident in underground coal mines where reserves ar

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Effect of mill-scale and calcined dolomite on high Al2O3 sinter and its reduction behaviour

    By S J. Kim, S W. Kim, L Tomas da Rocha, S Jung

    Al2O3 has been regarded as a harmful gangue component in iron ore, especially causing reduction degradation in industrial sintering of iron ore. The current study aimed to utilise low-grade iron ore c

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Mineral Sands - An Overview of the Industry

    Mineral sands are different to almost any other commodity; however, it shares similarities with other commodity types, such as the importance of quality constraints of iron ore and coal or the importa

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Telepresence – the application of remote control and automation technologies for increased safety and productivity

    By J Cronin

    For the last decade, we have read about the great technical innovation that is coming to the mining industry that will increase safety and productivity. There is consensus that it will be a technical

    Oct 16, 2017