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Project Management for All Seasons ù Financial Risk Mitigation in a Challenging World
By O C. Aitken
Mining project developers are committed to taking on all the challenges and obligations of financial risk management. It is interesting that our current models of project finance have not changed mark
Jan 1, 2004
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Parallel Implementation of a Tabu Search Procedure for Stochastic Mine Scheduling
By R Dimitrakopoulos, R Senécal
This paper presents a metaheuristic solution to the optimisation of open pit long-term production scheduling with a stockpile and geological uncertainty. The optimisation formulation is a two-stage st
Nov 24, 2014
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Precipitate Flotation for the Removal of Heavy Metals and Cyanide from Metallurgical Effluents
By CorrOa de Araujo A, Salum MJG
The treatment of mining and metallurgical liquid effluents is becoming, everyday, a necessity felt by these industries. Physical-chemical and chemical methods for treating such effluents are general
Jan 1, 1993
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Mt Isa copper concentrator cleaner circuit redesign
By P Radulovic, V Lawson, M Muller, J Wallace
The Mount Isa Copper Concentrator was commissioned in 1973. Since commissioning some significant upgrades have been undertaken such as: • the replacement of the rod mill/ball mill circuit with AG mill
Sep 11, 2017
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Maximising Productivity through Big Data, Simulation and Predictive Analytics
By M T. Grigoleit, M S. Schneider
The iron ore industry in Australia has, in recent years, experienced an unprecedented growth phase. But now that major expansions are moving into the operation phase, new challenges have emerged. Wher
Jul 13, 2015
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How Much Do We Need to Drill?
By C Taylor, E Retz
Sequential Gaussian conditional simulation of wide-spaced exploration data has been completed in order to optimise a drilling grid at Fortescue’s Eliwana deposit. The aim of this drill grid is to impr
Jul 13, 2015
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Optimising Underground Mining Strategies
By A M. Ebbels
"Underground mine scheduling decision-making has been based on production requirements, equipment productivities and the mine planner’s instincts on the best scheduling strategy for the mine to optimi
Mar 8, 2016
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Key insights for the successful implementation of proximity detection and collision avoidance technology for reducing vehicle interaction risk – a surface technology provider perspective
By C Hoffmann
Given that each year, 30–40 per cent of mining industry deaths are attributable to failures of vehicle interaction controls (EMESRT, 2023), the mining industry is now armed with a growing body of know
Apr 16, 2024
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The Approval of a Gold Mine in the Solomon Islands ù Environmental Planning Issues
The Gold Ridge Mine is an open-cut gold mine in the Solomon Islands. The mine is owned and operated by Gold Ridge Mining Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ross Mining NL. At the invitation of the
Jan 1, 1999
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Recent improvements in the milling circuit at Tropicana mine
By G R. Ballantyne, B Putland, I Lovatt, M Di Trento
The Tropicana Gold Mine, owned by AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd (70% owned and managed) and Independence Group NL (30%) is located 330 kilometres east-northeast of Kalgoorlie, Australia, in the newl
Sep 11, 2017
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Review of Variogram Properties and Remarks on its Use in Process Control
By D M. Frantois-Bongarton
Variograms can be powerful tools for the analysis and control of process streams and their sampling. Their uses and proper utilisation have been described somewhat unclearly to date, and their limitat
Aug 21, 2012
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Process development for the Mina Justa project
By I Ritchie, A Johnston, D Yataco
Marcobre SAC (Marcobre) is developing the Mina Justa copper mine project, located in the Ica region of Peru. The Mina Justa IOCG orebody comprises of a sulfide mass overlain by an oxide cap with a sha
Sep 11, 2017
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A New Metaheuristic Algorithm for Long-Term Open Pit Production Planning
By C Niemann-Delius
The problem of long-term open pit mine planning is a large combinatorial problem, which canÆt be solved easily by mathematical programming models because of the large problem size. In this paper a new
Sep 26, 2011
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Block Caving - Controllable Risks and Fatal Flaws
Block caving is the lowest cost underground mining method but it has relatively high risks and a high up-front capital and development cost. It has application to large, often lower-grade orebodies wh
Jan 1, 2000
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Contemporary Criteria of Open Pit Long-Term Production Scheduling
Production scheduling of open pit mining is a key area as it deals with the management of operating cash flows of mining companies. The efficiency of long-term schedules is usually assessed with econo
Sep 26, 2011
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A Statistical Approach for Deriving Project Design Rainfall
By R Millar
A frequent challenge in mine water management and mine design is estimation of precipitation and extreme rainfall given a short record of site meteorological data. For remote mine projects, typically
Nov 26, 2013
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Lithium ore processing – an overview of the current and new processes
By N Setoudeh, A Nosrati, N J. Welham
The current surge of interest in lithium (Li) is due to the anticipated demand for electric vehicles and small scale power storage. Brine deposits contain most of the global Li resource, however hard
Sep 11, 2017
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Getting the Most out of Technology to Drive Mine Productivity Improvements
By K Sommerville, J Parkinson
"Open pit mines today have more technology and data available. The challenge is to effectively use resources to analyse and identify mine productivity improvements. AMC Consultants Pty Ltd (AMC) has c
Nov 15, 2016
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Robust Decision Making û Application to Mine Planning Under Price Uncertainty
By F Grobler
Many projects fail because project performance in unfavourable economic conditions was not anticipated at the investment decision stage. This type of failure may have been avoided through the selectio
Sep 26, 2011
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Management of Change ù The Transformation of UK Coal Project 105
In the UK during the 1990s the energy companies had developed a policy of æDash for GasÆ, building large natural gas power stations to produce more than 30 per cent of the UKÆs electricity demand. The
Jan 1, 2005