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Iron ore tailings and value addition – a short reviewBy G Senanayake, K Hazarika
The demand for iron-ore is ever increasing with the industry directly employing 60 500 people in a range of highly skilled roles in Australia. In the year 2019, the global iron-ore production was 2.85
Nov 8, 2021
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Brave New World Autonomous Mining SystemsBy M Lynch, B White
The historic city of Charters Towers in North Queensland is underlain by an extensive labyrinth of old mine workings in a large number of flat lying, subparallel, main and cross-cutting cross reefs ex
Sep 26, 2013
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Social licence to operate – circular economyBy L Schürmann, R Kendall
Social licence to operate is becoming part of a mining company’s DNA in the same way as health and safety. Consequently, mining companies are receiving increasing pressure from their shareholders to e
Jun 22, 2022
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Roof Support of the Longwall SystemThe effectiveness of three different types of longwall chock under the three different types of geological conditions worked recently is outlined. Some provisional analyses of the variation of chock
Jan 1, 1974
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Mineral Resource Modelling and Reconciliation in Ultra Deep Underground Gold MinesBy R C. A Minnitt
The Witwatersrand Supergroup is host to the world’s largest gold deposits. The location, quantity, grade, continuity and other geological characteristics of a Mineral Resource are either known, estima
Aug 22, 2011
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Petroleum's Contribution to the Economic Progress of AustraliaAny Australian who knows of the poverty of the early settlers in the first few years following the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip with his "first fleet" at Botany Bay must feel proud of the progres
Jan 1, 1962
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Design and Ground Support Monitoring of the Brunswick Street Rail Tunnels, BrisbaneBy Baxter D. A
This paper, one of two written about the Queensland Railways Brunswick Street tunnels presented at the VIII Australian Tunnelling Conference, 1993, describes the design and monitoring aspects of the r
Jan 1, 1993
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High Resolution Soil Geochemistry for Gold Exploration at the Continental, Regional and Prospect ScaleBy P de Caritat, A Davidson, A Mann
Top outlet sediments from the National Geochemical Survey of Australia have been extracted by a partial extraction method for over 50 elements including gold. The partial extraction results from this
Sep 26, 2013
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A Review of the Influence of Gas Pressure on Block Stability during Rock BlastingBlasting is an essential component of most mining operations, and is used to reduce the rock mass to a workable size distribution, as well as to create stable openings and pit walls. Frequently, there
Jan 1, 1999
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Conditions and Design Considerations for Maximising Recoverable Gold in Roasting of Refractory Gold OresBy M G. Aylmore, L W. de Klerk
Roasting of refractory gold ores has been a commercial process for many years. Improvements in design of fluidised bed roasting technologies and low capital and operating costs compared with other ref
Sep 26, 2013
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Orebody Delineation and Reserve Estimation ù Seeking Common Sense from Extensive Investment in FactThe organisers of this function have suggested that this presentation should accomplish the following broad goals:set the technical tone for the conference to follow, implying some discussion of the æ
Jan 1, 2000
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Development of the production optimiser through collaboration between Evolution Mining and MinnovareBy C McCracken, R Landers, B Hesse
Minnovare identified the potential to improve production drilling outcomes in underground long-hole stopes through the adaptation of new technology which was under ongoing development. An approach to
Mar 15, 2021
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Signals of Mine Closure - A Strategic Approach for Retrenchment - A Case Study of Porgera Gold Mine, Papua New GuineaThe issue of retrenchment is a topic of considerable relevance for the Papua New Guinea (PNG) mining, petroleum and gas industries. The unique environments in which Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) and oth
Jan 1, 2009
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Virtual Environment Training for Preshift Inspections of Haul Trucks to Improve Mining SafetyBy D A. Bowman, S Schafrik
With the goal of reducing injuries and fatalities related to haul truck accidents, this research investigates technologies and intervention strategies for improving worker training using a virtual env
Jan 1, 2008
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Greater Use of Geoscan On-belt Analysis for Process Control at Sepon Copper OperationBy T D. Jolly, L A. Balzan, A R. Harris, Z Bauk
"The availability of real-time data in any process control system is critical for effective management of that system. At MMG LXML Sepon Copper Operation in Lao PDR, controlling the copper grade of th
Oct 10, 2016
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Treatment Plant Innovation at Garden WellBy W T. C Kendall, H D. Ngo
Garden Well is a shear-hosted Archaean orogenic gold deposit located 100 km north of Laverton, Western Australia. The Garden Well processing plant is designed for a nominal 491 t/h milling rate and an
Sep 26, 2013
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Queensland Nickel - Value-Added Products from Technological Advances (c558ef59-3d56-447f-a7ad-fc4833bf589d)The Yabulu refinery of Queensland Nickel Pty Lld near Townsville now imports more than three million wet tonnes per year of nickel laterite ore from New Caledonia and Indonesia, making it the largest
Jan 1, 1995
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Direct reduced iron (DRI) – value of process monitoring using X-ray diffractionBy M Pernechele, U König
Most of the operating steelmaking capacity currently relies on conventional, coal-based steelmaking processes. Currently, direct reduced iron (DRI) is only produced in regions where energy is availabl
Sep 18, 2023
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Advanced Design Concept on Largest Diesel-Mechanical Truck-Komatsu HD1600MBy Kato Y
As a direct result of the Mining Industries need to improve efficiency and production in Open Pit type operations, the size of haulage units have increased dramatically. This trend has continued su
Jan 1, 1982
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Rock Stresses at Ok Tedi, Papua New GuineaBy L Mollison, K W. Mills, N R. P Baczynski, M F. Lee, I A. de Bruyn
This is the first of two papers concerned with rock stress inputs to various mine design issues at the large Ok Tedi open pit mine in Papua New Guinea. The companion paper (also published at this conf
Nov 5, 2014