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  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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