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  • AUSIMM
    An Overview of Surface Rock Support for Deformable Ground Conditions

    By M P. Sandy, V Louchnikov, V Eremenko, M Orunesu, O Watson

    "Surface support is a key component of most ground support systems which are applied as a means of reducing the risk of rockfall occurrence and maintaining serviceability of mine development. Surface

    Mar 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Application of Leading Practice Spontaneous Combustion Assessment to Exploration at the Doyles Creek Project

    By J Edman, RáBeamish, G Cambourn, B Beamish

    Moist Adiabatic Benchmark (MAB) and R70 testing have been applied to core samples of a multiple seam sequence from a borehole at the Doyles Creek Project. The coal samples range in rank from high vola

    Jul 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Drinking Water Quality Management for Mining Operations in Western Australia

    By J E. Wajon

    This paper discusses the background, requirements, need and content of plans for management of drinking water self-supplied to mining-related operations, including construction camps, especially in re

    Nov 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Didipio - Learning the Lessons, Adapting and Getting Ready for Production

    By R Redden

    "The Didipio Gold-Copper project in the Philippines has been a well-defined reasonably high gold grade porphyry for almost two decades. OceanaGold are now bringing the project into production in late

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Zero Liquid Discharge in Coal Mining Operations

    By A Dal-Corobbo, R Zick

    The coal mining industry is now faced with new regulatory requirements that limit the discharge of chlorides into receiving streams. To meet these new regulatory standards for treated mine water, a ze

    Nov 26, 2013

  • 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
    Iron Formation Related Base Metal Prospects, Broken Hill, New South Wales

    By Larsen D. F

    Minor iron formation related base metal sulphide mineralization occurs in granulite facies metamorphic rocks of the early Proterozoic Willyama Complex. Rock sequences hosting three iron formation r

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    New Innovations in Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence for the Iron Ore Industry

    By S Bailey

    In-field sampling programs generally take time, equating to money, and unless you have an onsite laboratory, you have the issue of having to wait long periods for your data. Until recently, field port

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Interaction Between Pulp Density and Frother Addition in Coal Flotation

    By Roberts T, Firth B. A

    A series of flotation experiments was carried out to study the interaction between the parameters of pulp density (mass per cent of solids in feed slurry) and frother addition (on the basis of solid m

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Dynamic Simulation in Iron Ore Pelletising Plants

    By P Navarra, R Kuhne

    Dynamic simulation (discrete event simulation) is the preferred methodology to evaluate the impact of dynamic aspects of processing plants on the overall plant capacity. This tool can be used to: iden

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Realisation of Value through Identification of Various Oxidation Fronts and Mineralisation Styles at Trilogy Cu-Au-Ag-Pb-Zn Deposit

    By B Armstrong

    The Proterozoic poly-metallic Trilogy deposit was discovered in 1997, and until recently, mining evaluation was stalled due to poor metallurgical performance. Unlocking the substantial economic value

    Sep 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Telfer Processing Plant Upgrade - The Implementation of Additional Cleaning Capacity and the Regrinding of Copper and Pyrite Concentrates

    By D R. Seaman, B Adamson, F Burns, B A. Seaman, P Manton

    The Telfer concentrator, located in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, consists of a dual train gold/copper operation processing ore from one underground and, currently, two open pit mines w

    Oct 29, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Resue or Split Face Firing - Trial Results from Hillgrove Mine

    Resue or split face firing has the potential to separate ore and waste rock into separate muck piles within a stope. Thus split face firing has the potential to reduce dilution of the ore stream to be

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    The impact of ventilation on demand on impeller fatigue life

    By L Salvestro

    Ventilation on demand (VOD) has been demonstrated to significantly reduce operating costs for ventilation fans, by reducing fan output to meet demand. The most effective method for reducing operating

    Oct 12, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Gemstones in Australia - The State of Play

    By S R. Pecover

    AustraliaÆs opal and sapphire mining industry has fallen from its peak in the 1980s and 1990s into a significant low today. This is not due to exhaustion of the resource, but instead an over-reliance

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Fusion of molten phase R&D into the metallurgical industry to drive circularity

    By S L. Nicol, B J. Hogg, O J. Mendoza, S Nikolic, A Burrows

    The top submerged lance (TSL) technology, developed in the 1970s, is now widely used for the processing of a range of materials. The key advantage the ISASMELT™ TSL technology provided was the ability

    Aug 21, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    The Influence of Impurities on the Properties of Lead

    From time to time failures occur in structures made of lead, and the failure may be due to corrosion involving a definite thinning of the lead sheet, or it may be of such a nature that cracks develop

    Jan 1, 1932

  • AUSIMM
    The Influence of Charge Distribution on the Grindability of the Blasted Material

    By J Seccatore, G Sadao, M Cardu, G De Tomi, L Finoti, F Galvão, J Romero Huerta, A Rezende, J Bettencourt

    In the mining industry, rock blasting can be considered as the first phase of comminution. The downstream phases of comminution are mechanical, and consist in consecutive stages of crushing and millin

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Pillar Recovery at Cracow Gold Mine using Grouted Consolidated Mullock

    By V Mutton, L Potts, D Joyce

    This paper describes the method of extracting sill pillars within the underground operation from under unconsolidated mullock fill at the Cracow Gold Mine. This pillar recovery method was initially su

    Mar 26, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Gold-Silver Vein Mineralisation at Cononish, Scotland

    By I M. Platten, C J. S Sangster, Y Xie, S C. Dominy

    Cononish is a steep, narrow NE-SW trending vein system that was emplaced into late Proterozoic metasediments. It shows brittle style deformation and postdates metamorphism and associated Caledonian fo

    Sep 26, 2013