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  • AUSIMM
    Practicalities of the use of fayalite slags for recovery of metals from urban wastes

    By E Jak, J Chen, B Hogg, S Nikolic, S Nicol

    The quantity of post-consumer ‘waste’ materials generated each year is rapidly increasing. These materials can contain significant quantities of critical metals and present an environmental challenge

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Microseismic Monitoring of Shear Zones and Related Seismic Activity at Broken Hill

    By G C. Reed, J M. Murray

    During more than 100 years continuous mining of the lead-zinc orebody at Broken Hill, an immense amount of geological data has been collected about shear zones related to the orebody. The challenge to

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Express Rail Link – Challenges of Tunnelling Through Hong Kong and into Mainland China

    By A Morris

    The Express Rail Link (XRL) will provide high-speed rail services from Hong Kong to Guangzhou and a connection to the national high-speed passenger rail network serving major cities throughout Mainlan

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Effect of Dynamic Pressure on Electronic Detonator Timing

    By R Ibarra, H Solis, G Teowee, B E. Papillon

    The authors have previously described a piezoelectric-based system to measure the dynamic pressure during actual detonation in the field. This technique is used in a water hammer test set-up where a d

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Direct Detection of Buried Orebodies Using Gradiometry

    By R Paterson, A Christensen

    The routine use of gravity gradiometry for the detection of orebodies with no outcrop is now being undertaken. The commodities and orebody styles range from banded iron ore formations to volcanogenic

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Sakmarian (Early Permian) Branchiopod Biogeography and Constraints on the Timing of Terrane Rifting, Drift, and Amalgamation, in SE Asia, with Reference to the Nature of Permian 'Tethys'

    By Waterhouse BJ

    Occurrence data of Tastubian,Sterlitamakian, and Aktastinian (all of Sakmarian Stage of Early Permian) brachiopod genera are analysed by Q-mode cluster analysis, principal component analysis, and disc

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    MMG Century Mine, A Case Study – Maximising Project Net Present Value Through Targeted Capital Expenditure and Process Optimisation Against a Backdrop of Falling Metal Prices and Feed Grades

    By R Wynn, T J. Akroyd, C Costa

    In an environment of lower zinc prices, falling revenues and reducing zinc feed grades, Century mine implemented a fast-tracked capital upgrade program in less than 15 months. The program was designed

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Opening Supports to Segmental Linings – A Novel Shotcrete Support Solution

    By M Burdick, A Harding, M Krulc, M Chappell

    Substantial schedule advantages can be made on projects if cross-passage construction can occur at the same time as tunnel boring machine (TBM) operation with little or no impact on TBM logistics. How

    Sep 17, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Integration of Geological and Geotechnical Data for Three-dimensional Modelling

    By K Zunica, A R. Penney

    The principles of three-dimensional geological modelling are well understood and routinely used. Sample data is collated and geostatistical tools used to ensure that sample data is suitable for its en

    Aug 18, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    An electrochemical and spectroscopic study of the leaching mechanisms of enargite and chalcopyrite in sulfuric acid

    By Y L. Ma, M Chen, W Bruckard

    With the extensive exploitation and gradual depletion of high-grade copper reserves, the mining industry is paying more and more attention to the hydrometallurgical extraction of copper from lowgrade

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Flotation of Hematite Using C6-C18 Saturated Fatty Acids

    The homologous series of saturated fatty acids investigated in this study generally show a steady gradation of properties with chain length. The solution pKa values were assumed constant at 4.9, howev

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    BHP Port Hedland wind fence – innovations in dust control

    By R Peiffer, L van Wyk

    The Port of Port Hedland is the largest bulk export terminal in the world and is one of Australia’s most important pieces of economic infrastructure. BHP is the largest Port user to support the export

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Iron Ore Characteristics and their Application in Optimising the Granulation Process

    By R Zhang, X Huang, M Zhou, X Lv, C Bai

    Iron ore sinter accounts for a large proportion of blast furnace ferrous burden in Chinese steel mills. Depleting high-grade iron ore resources and spreading complexity of iron ores in mineralogy and

    Aug 12, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Water Conservation at Construction Projects

    By B Hannah, M Uriarte, F Labarca, C Madore, G Ganapathi, L Martin, T Haase

    BechtelÆs Mining and Metals projects across the globe are executed in remote arid and semi-arid countries where providing even basic water supplies impose considerable challenges. Opportunities for wa

    Nov 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Why I don’t believe in reconciliation

    By S Dunham

    For decades we’ve been focusing on reconciliation as a tool to validate mineral resource estimates. And for decades we’ve been misleading ourselves. The concept of reconciliation is simple. Predict, m

    May 24, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Optimisation of Grinding Circuits at the Lead/Zinc Concentrator, Mount Isa Mines Limited

    By Drinkwater DJ, Watsford RMS, Johnson NW, Munro PD

    This paper describes the use of modelling and simulation techniques in the analysis and optimisation of grinding circuits at the Lead/Zinc Concentrator of Mount Isa Mines Limited.The objectives of the

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    A Novel Approach to the Characterisation of Iron Ores and Concentrates Using Recent Advancements in Wavelength- and Energy-dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometers

    By M Rayner, C Tsouris, A Komelkov

    X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is a widely accepted technique for the elemental analysis of iron ores and their concentrates. Wavelength-dispersive, or WDXRF, and energy-dispersive, or EDXRF, spectrometers

    Jul 13, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Virtual Reality Scientific Visualisation – A Solution for Big Data Analysis of the Block Cave Mining System

    By J Tibbett, A Colebourn, B Hebblewhite, F Suorineni

    The concept of Big Data refers to data sets that are so large, variable and/or complex that traditional data processing applications struggle to integrate the data for effective investigation, analysi

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The Protection of Surface Ventilation Fan Installations from Underground Explosions

    By R Bourcier, T Rafferty

    Following an underground coal mine explosion, it is important that ventilation is quickly restored to ventilate the mine and affect a mine rescue. To achieve this, surface ventilation fans must be sui

    Jul 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    The Median versus the Mean Fragment Size and Other Issues with the Kuz-Ram Model

    By F Ouchterlony

    Soviet precursors to Cunningham’s Kuz-Ram model from 1983 are described. They are rooted in the mean fragment size and Rosin-Rammler (RR) fits to sieving data and rely on approximations. Three version

    Aug 24, 2015