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  • AUSIMM
    Balancing the benefits and impacts of future copper demand – climate change and arsenic

    By P J. Bangerter, G D. Corder

    With the societal desire and drive towards low carbon energy sources, there is a growing awareness of the important role that minerals and metals will play with renewable energy technologies. Copper

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Extending mine life through application of an in situ recovery approach

    By D J. Robinson, L L. Kuhar

    In-situ recovery (ISR) is accepted and applied across many geographies, and approximately 50% of the world’s uranium is currently extracted by using an ISR method (World Nuclear Association, 2014). T

    Jul 25, 2018

  • 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
    Mill Modelling Using an Extensible Station-Based Framework

    By E A. Gunn, J Zhou

    In this paper a project to develop a joint optimisation/simulation model for production planning in a mine-mill complex is presented. The system involves a mill receiving ore from a number of differen

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Muck Pile Shaping for Draglines and Dozers at Surface Coalmines

    By M Nagarajan, S Esen

    This paper presents three case studies from three surface coalmines. The first case study is from a coalmine where a dragline operates in 60 m wide and 1 km long strips. Typical overburden height rang

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Integrated Landforms for the Storage of Tailings and Waste Rock at Magnetite Mines in Western Australia

    By D R. Anstey

    The mining of magnetite iron ore in Western Australia will generate large volumes of waste rock and tailings over many decades. The need to dispose of these materials will result in massive waste land

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Project Management for All Seasons ù Financial Risk Mitigation in a Challenging World

    By O C. Aitken

    Mining project developers are committed to taking on all the challenges and obligations of financial risk management. It is interesting that our current models of project finance have not changed mark

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Subordinate Structures – Considerations and Benefits

    By M J. Nugus

    The structural models developed by exploration and mining geologists are most commonly concerned with the ‘main structures’ or key constituents that pertain to the associated mineralisation. To this e

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Fundamentally Transforming the Economic and Sustainability Signature of Mining Assets

    By M Jones

    The past 100 years the mining industry can be characterised by a focus on increasing financial returns often to the detriment of social, human, manufactured and environmental capitals. Despite the sus

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Ramp-up and long-term performance of the Albion Process™ plant at GeoProMining Gold Armenia

    By D Walker, A Tsvetkov, P Voigt, O Kloiber-Deane

    The GPM Gold Operation has been employing an Albion Process™ plant at its Sotk (Zod) gold mine in Armenia since 2014. Long term data from the operation is now being published for the first time. The

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Inclined Troughed Belt Conveyor Systems for Underground Mass Mining Operations

    By A G. L Pratt

    Inclined troughed belt conveyors are more frequently being selected from a range of alternatives, which include shafts and trucks for ore haulage in underground mass mining projects. Belt conveyor hau

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Case study of a practicable, risk-based solution in response to new regulatory approaches to Mining Health and Safety using Queensland Recognised Standard 22 (Management Structure for the development and implementation of the SHMS)

    By S Amor, A Beasley

    This paper provides an example of how industry can respond to the implementation of new regulatory approaches to mining risk, health and safety by adopting a robust, practical, software-based approach

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Discrete vein modelling – implications of a novel geology driven resource estimation methodology for vein hosted mineral deposits

    By J P. van Dijk, M Munro

    Discrete vein modelling presents an innovative geology driven 3D modelling method for quantification of vein hosted mineral deposits, with far reaching potential for critical mineral supply and low im

    Sep 1, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Assessing the volume change behaviour of red mud through laboratory and field testing

    By D J. Williams, A Shokouhi, A Naderian

    Extracting alumina from bauxite involves the production of fine-grained waste known as red mud. The highly alkaline red mud is usually neutralised by applying sea water, thickened to between 25% and 3

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    An analysis of productivity in sublevel caving mines

    By G R. Power

    A useful way to assess potential productivity of SLC mines is by quantifying tonnes/drawpoint/day to be extracted from the mine. However limited industry information has been published to help mines b

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding ore heterogeneity and effective bulk ore sorting using PGNAA/PFTNA

    By S Ferguson, G Noble

    The mining industry is facing economic pressures to treat more challenging and lower grade ore types, as well as pressure relating to environmental impact and social license to operate. Preconcentrati

    Nov 10, 2020

  • AUSIMM
    Accurately defining failure geometries and their variability

    By E J. Hancock, K H. B Chu

    Failures within hard rock underground excavations have historically been defined by a depth of failure, estimated in the field or through individual measurements, with a simplified failure geometry; s

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    A Large-Scale Unconfined Compressive Strength Test for Determination of Rock Mass Parameters in Tunnel Design

    By A Smith

    Rock masses usually exhibit scale dependent mechanical properties primarily due to presence of discontinuities and their inhomogeneous nature. One of the essential preconditions for selection of appro

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Optimised drill targeting using dynamic 3D modelling, Martabe Gold Mine, Indonesia

    By H Indirawati, R Ayres, A Nur Kasnanto, S Konopa

    As a project moves through the mine life cycle, the quantity of data available increases and the understanding of the orebody matures. Incorporating new information quickly and efficiently in current

    Nov 21, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Martabe Gold Mine, Indonesia: a positive solution for positive reconciliation

    By M Angus, S Konopa, A Virisheff, S Crispin

    A positive mill reconciliation at a mine is a double-edged-sword. Much back slapping happens. The bank and the board can’t get enough until the downside becomes apparent. Over a prolonged period, ther

    Nov 21, 2018