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  • AUSIMM
    Former metal mining areas in England and Wales – local residents’ preferences for the management of wastes

    By A M. Sardo, D E. Sinnett

    This study uses the Q Method to examine how those living in former metal mining landscapes value this heritage and their preferences for the long-term management of mine waste. Such sites are often pe

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Wall Control Blasting Practices at BHP Billiton Iron Ore Mt Whaleback

    By C T. Dunbar, P A. Walker, G E. LeJuge

    A programme of blast improvement was initiated at the Mt Whaleback iron ore mine by BHPIO management in early-1998. One component of that work was the need to improve wall control blasting practices t

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Characterising the In Situ Conditions Within Rehabilitated Spoils at South African Opencast Collieries

    By F D. I Hodgson

    Twenty-seven observation test pits were excavated at four different spoils dumps at three collieries in the Witbank Coalfield. The holes were dug into the upper three metres of the spoils to ascertain

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Stable Isotopes and Ore Fluid Chemistry of Gold Mineralisation at Waitangi Deposit, Thames District, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand

    By C G. Ryan, D R. Cooke

    The Thames gold-silver deposits are part of the Hauraki goldfield, situated within the Miocene to Pliocene calc-alkaline Coromandel Volcanic Zone (CVZ). The Waitangi vein system is one of the minerali

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Power Resources on the Vatukoula Mining Field

    The Tavua Power Proprietary Ltd. was created in 1936 for the purpose of supplying electric power, compressed air and water to the mining field.The original share capital was subscribed on a two-third:

    Jan 1, 1953

  • AUSIMM
    Initiating-Systems for Underground Mass Firings Using Large Diameter Blastholes

    By Rashleigh C

    The selection and application of an effect- ive firing system first require a clear under- standing of the initiating abilities of the com- ponents in such systems. The conditions under which charges

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AUSIMM
    Cost-Benefit Comparisons of Ecological Risk Against Water Management Options in the Finniss River System, Australia

    Quantitative probabilistic ecological risk assessment has been used to evaluate the likely effect on fish diversity and abundance of filtered and bioavailable metals in streamwater affected by acid dr

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Investigation and Construction of Tunnels in Tamalia Limestone, Perth, Western Australia

    By Klenowski G, Gilmour G. A

    The Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Board, Perth, has recently con- structed two major sewerage tunnels in the metropolitan area and a further one is under construction. These tunne

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AUSIMM
    A higher standard of ‘safety’

    By A Turns

    In a survey conducted by symplexi with underground miners in Australia; 78 per cent of participants believed that ‘safety’ is all about people. If ‘safety’ is about people, then is the mining industry

    May 5, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Settling Velocities of Particles in a Hindered Settling Device

    Hindered settling devices (teeter bed, up-current) are widely used in the mining industry to classify mineral streams into various size fractions and to separate minerals. In the coal industry these d

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding zinc-containing species in basic oxygen steelmaking dust

    By B J. Monaghan, R J. Longbottom, D J. Pinson, S J. Chew

    Recycling steel plant by-products is a critical issue for achieving both environmental and economic sustainability of integrated steel plants. A key steel plant by-product stream is dust from basic ox

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Efficient material descriptions for modelling high-temperature processes

    By J H. Zietsman

    The transition to more sustainable metal production is receiving much attention at present, and the iron and steel industry is at the centre of the conversation. New, more environmentally friendly pro

    Aug 21, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Learnings from review of drawpoint management across New South Wales mines

    By X Hill

    Throughout the 2016/2017 financial year, the NSW Resources Regulator conducted an assessment of each underground metalliferous operation across the state to assess how each operation managed the princ

    Oct 16, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Mine to Tunnel Scale Discontinuum Simulation of Repeated Dynamic Loading of Mine Excavations

    Underground excavations are subjected to complex stress changes caused by nearby mining, but may also be affected by repeated dynamic loading from blasting and seismic events. In some cases, the combi

    Nov 25, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    The Use of Risk Analysis in the Selection of a Mining Method

    It is very rare in the underground hard rock environment to find a deposit that is ideally suited to a specific mining method. Usually the irregular shape of the orebody will allow the deposit to be e

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Low Density Explosives - A Product that Requires Some Rule Changes

    The basic make-up of the majority of currently produced bulk explosives has changed little in the last 20 years. These explosives would be described as mature in a life cycle analysis. Therefore these

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    The Structural/Stratigraphic Development of the Sishen South (Welgevonden) Iron Ore Deposit, South Africa, as Deduced From Ground Gravity Data Modelling

    By W J. Botha

    The Palaeoproterozoic Transvaal Supergroup in the northern Cape Province of South Africa hosts high grade (>60 per cent Fe) hematitic and specularitic iron and manganese mineralisation. The mineralisa

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Achieving Sustainable Community Development - Helping Build Appropriate and Resilient Community Governance Structures

    This paper talks about the experiences of groups we have worked with over the last few years in the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea) and the ways that they hav

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Methods and Apparatus for the Determination of Dust Suspended in Air

    By Read T. A

    PART 1The quantity of dust present and the methods used for suppression of dust in metalliferous mines has, in recent years, received considerable attention from mining engmeers in various parts of th

    Jan 1, 1922

  • AUSIMM
    Predictive Site-Wide Water Quality Modelling as a Tool for Mine Planning and Permitting - A Recent Canadian Example

    By A Fitzpatrick

    An integrated and dynamic water balance and water quality model for a proposed base metal mine has been created using the GoldSimÖ software package. The model was initially developed to address the wa

    Jul 10, 2012