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Pound Road Quarry: An Example of Sustainable Management
By A McDowell
Pound Road Quarry is an alluvial gravel quarry owned and operated by Fulton Hogan Ltd. for the supply of aggregate in Canterbury, and is the largest quarry in the South Island in terms of production.
Jan 1, 1998
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ArriumÆs Iron Baron Hematite Beneficiation Plant - A Success from Start to Finish
By M Bannear, C Stanton
Since 2008, Arrium has been developing and commissioning a new low-grade hematite ore benefication plant (or OBP) at its Iron Baron mine site.The Iron Baron mine, which was closed in the 1990s, could
Aug 12, 2013
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Commissioning Under a Microscope ù The Cawse Nickel Start-Up
By R Young, D OÆSullivan
When Centaur Mining and Exploration produced nickel metal fromlaterite ore at its Cawse nickel project in January 1999, a new era in the nickel industry was heralded in. One of three new laterite proj
Jan 1, 2001
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The Differentiation of Macerals by Thin-Film Colouring
When a thin film of volatile matter is deposited under vacuum on a polished coal surface, and the coated surface is examined microscopically in plane-polarized reflected light, colour changes are obse
Jan 1, 1970
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Sampling and Ore-Buying on the West Coast of Tasmania
The following notes apply more especially to the purchase of silverlead ores produced in the neighbourhood of Zeehan and Dundas; for it is this class of ore that is principally mined in those parts, a
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Hismelt« - Direct Ironmaking Becomes a Reality
Following extensive trials on a 100 000 tpa Research and Development facility at Kwinana, Western Australia, Hismelt Corporation (wholly owned by Rio Tinto) are confident of the future commercial su
Jan 1, 1999
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Copper Separation from Iron and Nickel-Iron Sulfide Concentrates by a Double-Roast, Acentonitrile Leaching Process
By Parker A. J, Grimsey E. J
Studies have been carried out on the dead roasting of a copper-iron and a copper-nickel-iron sulfide concentrate, followed by segregation roasting with coal and leaching with either curpric sulfate in
Jan 1, 1983
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Development of an On-Site Mineralogy Solution for Metallurgists
By D van der Wal, R Dobbe, K Moeller
"Ore mineralogy and texture are primary variables controlling mill recovery efficiency in flotation plants. However, tracking daily variations of key mineralogical characteristics such as species-by-s
Jul 15, 2013
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The Rotokaua Sulphur Deposits
By P M. Hancock, Associates
Lacustrine sediments, hydrothermal explosion breccias and spring precipitates deposited 5200 - 1800 years BP as a result of geothermal activity at Lake Rotokaua, contain New Zealand's largest kno
Jan 1, 1984
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Paper No. 133. The Treatment of Cassilis Ore, East Gippsland, Victoria, as Carried on by The Cassilis Gold Mining Company N. L.
The ore is very 'refractory. It consists essentially of arsenical pyrites, iron pyrites, zinc blende, galena, antimony as sulphide and probably, in combination with galena, as Jamesonite, magnesi
Jan 1, 1903
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The Southern Coalfied, N.S.W., and its Potential Development
By Brown H. R, Wright E. A
The authors identify the workable coal seams, their distribution in relation to quality and economic occurrence and relate their analytical characteristics to industrial use. The development of establ
Jan 1, 1958
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Measuring the Influence of Sample Size on the Precision and Accuracy of Gravity Gold Estimation
By A Giblett, T J. Napier-Munn
This paper presents the results of a test program evaluating the impact of sample mass on the precision of Stage 1 gravity recoverable gold (GRG) test results. Four ore types ranging from low to high
Sep 7, 2015
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Recent Investigations in Electrostatic Separation
The beach sand industry is the only Australian mineral industry which, so far, has used electrostatic separation on a full commercial scale. The main application of the process is for the separation o
Jan 1, 1954
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Future Mining of the Australian Seafloor - Do We Have the Social License?
By J Parr, P Ashworth, S Johns, C Yeats, A Littleboy
The ocean floor is increasingly being discussed in terms of its resource potential. New discoveries, improved knowledge and access to unexplored areas of the deep sea and continental shelf are some fa
Jan 1, 2008
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Presidential Address, 1966 Rutile
It is a great honour to be privileged to address The Institute for a second time as President and I appreciate it more than I can say. Eight years ago in Hobart I tried to cover the development of the
Jan 1, 1966
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Cost Model of the Leigh Creek Coalfield
The Leigh Creek Coalfield is owned and operated by the Electricity Trust of South Australia to supply fuel to the Northern Power Station. To supply electricity at lowest cost, a costing and decision
Jan 1, 1990
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The Influence of Composition on the Properties of Lead Part IX
By Orr C. W
In previous papers (1, 2), the influence on the creep resistance of elements normally found in commercial lead has been recorded. The results in the present paper refer to the influence of calcium, an
Jan 1, 1938
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Aqueous Oxidation of Arsenopyrite in Acid
By Linge HG, Fernandez PG, Hughes HC
Aqueous oxidation is a possible alternative to roasting for the processing of gold bearing arsenopyrite (FeAsS) concentrates. The reaction has been studied by voltammetry and this has shown, for th
Jan 1, 1989
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The Recovery and Separation of Scandium, Yttrium, Thorium and Lanthanides by Solvent Extraction
The paper outlines the development of a solvent extraction process for the recovery of scandium, yttrium, thorium, and heavy lanthanides from waste sulphate liquor at the Port Pirie uranium treatment
Jan 1, 1961
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Fundamentals to Produce Fe-Mn Alloy by Smelting-Reduction Process
By da Silva C A, Tenorio J. A S, de Assis R M, de Oliveira J R
For Fe-Mn alloy production, two reactions are responsible for this process: the MnO reduction in the slag and the carbon dissolution in the bath. The smelting-reduction process has been studied as a
Jan 1, 1999