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Mill relining optimisation – a story of collaboration
By P Rubie, B Morgan, J Russell, C Stewart
The relationship between efficient liner exchange, concentrator availability and concentrator profitability is well documented. Russell Mineral Equipment’s (RME) relationship with OZ Minerals’ Promine
Sep 11, 2017
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Debt Finance: The Technical Factors
The key to the successful debt funding of a new mining project, whether in economically established or developing nations, is the submission of a comprehensive feasibility study. The feasibility stud
Jan 1, 1995
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Potential for the Utilisation of Micro-Organisms in Gold Processing
By D C. McPhail, S L. Rogers, J Brugger
Using iron- and sulfur-oxidising bacteria to catalyse the breakdown of sulfides that host the gold is an important biological method for the pretreatment of refractory gold ores. Following this biolog
Jan 1, 2007
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How Can You Get Mining Equipment to Work to its Real Capacity?
Most mining operations have been happy to live in blissful ignorance of what their equipment is really capable of. Shareholders have been shown increasing tonnes output per employee (due to rationalis
Jan 1, 2009
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Worth its Salt - How Eutectic Freeze Crystallisation Can be Used to Recover Water and Salt from Hypersaline Mine Waters
By D G. Randall, R Jivanji, J Nathoo, T Reddy
Paradoxically, the increased emphasis on water treatment in mining has generated a new problem û hypersaline brines. Currently brines are either disposed of into ash systems, lined evaporation ponds o
Jan 1, 2009
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Flotation of Ok Tedi Sulphide Minerals
By Mwaba CC
Ok Tedi Mining Ltd has been using flotation for the production of copper/gold concentrates from a complex copper sulphide ore for several years. During this period, much effort has been devoted to
Jan 1, 1991
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The Golden Cross Project, Mill Closure, Mine Rehabilitation and Drainage Contract
The Golden Cross project was a joint venture between Coeur NZ Ltd (80 per cent) and Viking Mining Company (20 per cent). The site is located in the Waitekauri Valley, 8 km north-west of Waihi, on the
Jan 1, 2002
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What is the Matter with Australian Mining?
THERE are certain facts that the mining industry in Australia is faced with at the present moment which may be accepted as axioms. The industry is at a low ebb, as evidenced by statistics. Metals form
Jan 1, 1919
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Best Practice Environmental Management - A Critical Strategy for the Future of the Mining Industry
The role of government and the community has changed significantly over the last two decades in relation to environment protection, particularly in the mining sector. Increased community expectation
Jan 1, 1997
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The Improved Detection of Geochemical Soil Anomalies by Multiple Regression Analysis of Biochemical Data
Multiple regression analysis was used to predict elemental concentrations of copper and nickel in soils from consideration of the concentration of these elements in vegetation in an ultrabasic complex
Jan 1, 1972
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Present Status of Remediation of Mt Lyell Acid Drainage
By N Clarke, R Dineen, W Jones
The Mt Lyell copper mine in western Tasmania has discharged acid drainage (AD) into the Queen and King Rivers and Macquarie Harbour for over a century. Presently, dissolved copper loads of about 1000
Jan 1, 2003
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Beyond the manufacturing mindset – adapting workforce skills for the tech driven mining industry
By Y Lanwin
The Australian mining sector is undergoing a significant transformation with the adoption of advanced technology to the operational landscape. This has highlighted a critical disconnect between our tr
Sep 1, 2024
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Structural Controls in the Tarnagulla Goldfield, Central Victoria: Implications for Metamorphically Derived Auriferous Fluids
By V Morand, W R. H Ramsay
Structural, mineralogical, and textural data from the Tarnagulla Goldfield demonstrate that the area has undergone three significant phases of deformation. The first phase of deformation (D1) predates
Jan 1, 1995
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Testing for the Selection of Comminution Circuits to Prepare Concentration Feed (a815d937-44c4-4647-9f91-461932a0c73e)
The selection of the best comminution circuit for the preparation of concentration feed is a compromise based on economics, energy efficiency, labour costs, steel consumption, availability and other f
Jan 1, 1984
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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures - The Use of Sea water in Mineral Processing
The expansion of hydrometallurgical operations, declining ore grades and upwardly spiralling production increases the demand for fresh and recycled water with low levels of contaminants. The minerals
Jun 1, 2010
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Australian Rock Bolt Steel Chemistry and Stress Corrosion Cracking
It's long been suspected that there has been an increase in the incidence of premature failure of rock bolts in underground coal mines over the past ten years. As far back as 2002 a study found a
Nov 25, 2010
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Considerations on Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Sample Security
By G Gosson
An important requirement in every geological quality control program is that the identity and grades of the control samples (duplicates, certified reference materials (CRMs), and blanks) must remain æ
Jan 1, 2008
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A Geological Model for Gold Mineralisation at Reefton, New Zealand
By G J. Corbett, P Magner, M McKenzie
Structures formed during ductile deformation have been reactivated during the later brittle mineralisation process. Two generations of folding are classified as: early recumbent megascopic FI folds an
Jan 1, 1997
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Nyrstar Port Pirie Redevelopment
By B Kretschmer, G Bartel, B de Villiers, W Watt
"The Nyrstar Port Pirie Smelter, located on the eastern shore of the Upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia 230km north of Adelaide, began operation in 1889 to process lead concentrate from the Broken
Sep 7, 2015