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  • AUSIMM
    Developments in Sublevel Open Stoping at Rosebery Mine

    Sublevel open stoping (S.L.O.S.) was introduced at Rosebery in 1972 in the wider ore blocks below 14 level, largely replacing cut and fill methods which had been in use up till that time. During 19

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Coarse Liberation and Recovery of Free Gold and Gold Sulfide Carriers for Energy Reduction in Process Plants

    By M Davies, G Theletsane, A H. Gray

    Recovery of gold from gold ores has been driven by the available technology and its configuration in the process plant flow sheet.Conventional practice in test work programs has the ore being ground f

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Internalising Ecological Costs in Evaluating and Planning a Mining Project

    By Q Wang

    Net present value (NPV) has been the main criterion in mining project evaluation and production plan optimisation. It is a common practice in NPV calculations to take into account only the tangible co

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    U.S. Coal Mining Accidents And Seam Thickness

    By Thirumalai K, Peluso R. G

    The United States has more than 45 billion tons of economic coal reserves in seams above 10 feet thick and current underground production from thick seams represent less than three per cent of th

    Jan 1, 1976

  • AUSIMM
    The Development of a Fan Range to Meet Increasingly Demanding Safety Criteria Inside Tunnels

    By A G. Sheard

    Fire safety requirements inside tunnels have become more demanding as tunnel designers consider the impact of potentially larger fires. Tunnel ventilation equipment is required to clear hot gases in t

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Activity Coefficient of Oxygen in Dilute Lead Ton Alloy Solvent

    By Kapoor M. L

    EMF measurements were performed in the temperature range of 933-1095 K to determine the thermodynamic properties of oxygen dissolution in liquid lead and lead-tin alloys with tin in the dilute conc

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Weighing of Open Cut Machinery

    An improved technique for the quick and accurate measurement of the weight and centre of mass in the horizontal plane of large machines has been developed. On-site weighing of large plant such as bu

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    Adaptive and Intelligent Control of Cone Crushers

    By Bearman R. A, Parkin R. M

    In the comminution industry cone crushers are widely used for secondary and subsequent stages of size reduction. Traditionally cone crushers have been operated and monitored manually. Alteration of

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Analysis of the melting behaviour of CaF2-free welding fluxes using hot thermocouple technique

    By S Basu, S L. A Gowravaram

    CaF2 has been a common constituent in a wide variety of welding fluxes, including those used for submerged arc welding (SAW). The widespread use of CaF2 stems from its role in lowering the liquidus te

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    The Application of Neutron-Gamma Sirolog to Estimate Iron Content in Coal And Implications for Estimating Ash Fusion Characteristics

    A field trial of the prompt neutron-gamma SIROLOG technique was undertaken by the CSIRO - Division of Geomechanics at Callide Coalfields during July 1989. The trial investigated whether the sonde c

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    The Failure of Steel Rock Drill Rods by Fatigue

    A sample of fifty fractured low chromium-molybdenum alloy drill steel rods was investigated. Each rod was of the forged collar integral tungsten carbide type in common use in Australia.Examination of

    Jan 1, 1955

  • AUSIMM
    Gas Phase Sulphation of Nickel Laterite Ores

    By Rankin W. J

    Increasing concern with the emission of sulphur dioxide from smelters and roasters has caused renewed interest in processes which can use waste sulphur dioxide, such as the sulphation of nickel late

    Jan 1, 1996

  • AUSIMM
    The Evolution of Stope Backfill at Olympic Dam Operations

    Backfil ling of excavated Sub Level Open Stopes has been underway since March 1989 and as at December 1992 some 1 100 000 cubic metres of Cemented Aggregate Fill have been placed. During these three y

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    Reducing Grade Uncertainty in High-Nugget Effect Gold Veins ù Application of Geological and Geochemical Proxies

    By G F. Johansen

    The erratic and localised occurrence of economic gold grades is a common feature of high-nugget effect gold veins. The nugget effect is a consequence of small-scale geologically controlled enrichment,

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Molecular modelling applied to the flotation of iron ores

    By M Badawi, Y Foucaud, C Veloso, J Laine, A C. Araujo

    Iron is one of the most exchanged commodities worldwide. Its use for steelmaking explains the growing demand in the metal which remains mainly produced by the mining and the beneficiation of iron ores

    Nov 8, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Assessing bulk sorting suitability at the New Afton mine

    By H Kurth, L Balzan

    On-belt analysers have been used since the early 1980s in the coal sector to measure ash content in real time for diverting material on conveyors to remove waste, bypass beneficiation and allow suitab

    Sep 11, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Computer Modelling Techniques and their Application to mine Evaluation and Operation

    By Stokes WPC

    The capital requirements to develop a new mining venture are becoming very large; amounts of the order of US$1,000 million are not now unusual among estimates to bring new mining complexes into pr

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AUSIMM
    Strata Mechanics of Pillar Extraction Goaf Edges

    By Chaturvedula V. K

    Pillar extraction carried out using various methods (split and lift, Wongawilli and Old Ben) involves the formation of narrow fenders (commonly 7 m of coal) formed by driving "splits" for lifting

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Spatial Modelling and Optimisation of Geometallurgical Indices

    By M J. Newton

    As part of the AMIRA P843 project Keeney and Walters (2008) describe how the principal components analysis (PCA) method can be used to identify classes of samples with similar metallurgical characteri

    Sep 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Forging Ahead - A Collaboration Between the OZ Minerals Prominent Hill Concentrator and Magotteaux to Improve Plant Performance

    By PáDeáBosscher, A Bruwier, M Weidenbach, C Philippe, T Ly, A Van Den Bosch

    In the mining business the cost of grinding media represents up to 40 per cent of the total milling cost and therefore grinding media optimisation has a direct impact on the concentratorsÆ bottom line

    Oct 29, 2012