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Longwall Extraction at South Bulli CollieryThe Bellambi Coal Company Limited com menced longwall mining at South Bulli Colliery in 1965. At present it operates three long- wall units in two seams. Although results to date have been less succ
Jan 1, 1976
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New Geologic Concepts Resulting from Oil Exploration in South Central QueenslandExtensive geophysical exploration and drilling operations have been: conducted in, South Central Queensland by Phillips Petroleum Company and Sunray DX Oil Company since late 1959. The main outlines o
Jan 1, 1962
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Non-Ideal Explosive Performance Prediction Using the CPEX ModelBy Minchinton A
CPeX is a non-ideal explosive performance prediction model. The model takes into account the rate of energy release, the extent of chemical reac- tion and the effect of confinement on energy release.
Jan 1, 1988
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Value in Use ù Developing an Improvement Program for SuccessBy M Gill, A Mathias
The mining industry has always been cost-focussed but in recent times mining companies have moved towards obtaining a competitive advantage through the implementation and sustainability of best practi
Jan 1, 2004
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Earth Pressure Balanced Tunnelling in a Dense Urban Environment, C917ABy G Jones
The Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) has been procuring the expansion of their underground mass rapid transit rail network at a prodigious rate since the first line opened in 1987. Four lines
Sep 17, 2014
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Lihir Gold Five Years On ù Maximising Throughput and Capital UtilisationDuring the first five years of operation, the Lihir gold mine has steadily increased plant throughput rate to over 4 Mtpa, well above the original design capacity of 2.8 Mtpa. Understanding how future
Jan 1, 2003
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Mining Under Indonesia's New Environmental LawThe new law on Environmental Protection and Management (Republic of Indonesia Law 32 of 2009) was passed by the Indonesian parliament in September 2009. This law aims to protect Indonesia's rapid
Jun 1, 2010
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Fine Iron Ore Beneficiation Through an Integrated Modular Gravity Concentration CircuitBy P Pieterse
Kumba Iron Ore Ltd is currently commissioning the Sishen Expansion Project (SEP) û a brownfields project on the Sishen Iron Ore Mine located in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. SEP is designe
Jan 1, 2008
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Ventilation and Cooling Design for Long DeclinesDeclines for both access and rock haulage are replacing shafts for mining relatively shallow deposits of down to 1000 m below surface. Where the orebody does not outcrop and where surface access may b
Jan 1, 2005
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How to find the optimum air rate for flotation cellsBy J J. Cilliers, K Hadler
Air is fundamental to flotation; not only is it required to collect the valuable particles, but it also controls the froth stability and consequently the separation performance for a given feed. Frot
Aug 29, 2018
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Classified Tailings as Part of an Intergrated Regional Support SystemBy D R Van Eck
Western Deep Levels, a seismically active deep level told mine. stalled placing backfill in their narrow tabular workings as part of the regional support strategy in 1986. Over the years the percent
Jan 1, 1998
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Geometallurgical Modelling – A Mineral Processor's PerspectiveBy A Stradling
For a geometallurgical program to be successful, linkage must be made between the geologists and geostaticians who understand and model the orebody, the metallurgists who determine the value that can
Sep 5, 2011
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Process Amenability Studies on Goethite-abundant Iron Ore FinesBy T Raynlyn, S Hapugoda, V Nunna
The predominant phase in most Marra Mamba, channel iron deposits and detrital iron ore deposits is goethite. Goethite abundant iron ore fines tend to have complex mineralogical associations and fine d
Jul 13, 2015
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Method Selection for Large-Scale Underground MiningAs has been the case since the early Phoenician traders, the minerals used by modern man come from deposits scattered around the globe. The price received is more and more being set by worldwide suppl
Jan 1, 2000
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Application of Different Drive Systems for Horizontal MillsBy M Neurohr, B Wacker, D Mensing, C Murphy, W Kitz
Mining operations have large power requirements. The biggest consumers of energy are the drives for the mills located in the concentrators. Assuming that the decision is made on how many mills are nee
Jul 13, 2015
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Development of a Predictive Geometallurgical Recovery Model for the La Colosa, Porphyry Gold Deposit, ColombiaBy S Leichliter
La Colosa, Colombia is a large gold-porphyry deposit currently undergoing feasibility studies by AngloGold Ashanti. This period of development allows the opportunity to apply innovative and emerging t
Sep 5, 2011
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Surface Cooling at Kidd Creek MineBy K Hortin
Kidd Creek mine in north western Ontario is developing phase 1 of the deep mine project for mining between 2100 m and 3100 m below surface. Heat problems were experienced during the 2003 summer in wor
Jan 1, 2005
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A Field Demonstration of a Modified Wet Scrubber for Dust Control in an Illinois Coal MineBy A Patwardhan, M M. Alam, K K. Thatavar
A commercial wet scrubber was used in the SIU-Joy dust control laboratory to test several concepts for improving the dust control efficiency of a wet scrubber. The concepts tested included two filter-
Jan 1, 2005
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Multivariate Geostatistical Simulation via Joint Approximate Diagonalisation û A Case StudyBy J Ferreira
To speed up multivariate geostatistical simulation it is common to transform the set of attributes into spatially uncorrelated factors that can be simulated independently. One decorrelation method is
Sep 26, 2011
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Developing the West Pilbara Iron Ore ProjectBy K Watters
API Management Pty Ltd (API) is currently developing the West Pilbara Iron Project (the ‘Project’). The Project is a substantial greenfi elds mining and infrastructure development proposed for the wes
Jul 11, 2011