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  • AUSIMM
    Resource Modelling and Mine Design at Obuasi Mine, Ghana

    By C K. Boafo, J Visser

    Obuasi Mine in Ghana, with more than 100 years of mining history, developed from a surface operation into a deep >2000 m underground gold mine. The challenge is to extract value from narrow veins l

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of Gold Deposits in the Archaean Greenstone Belts of Western Australia

    By Ho SE, Neil Phillips G, Houstoun SM

    There are numerous individual gold deposits in the Archaean greenstone belts of Western Australia, but only 26 have productions and/or quoted reserves in excess of 10 tonnes Au. Most gold producti

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    The McArthur Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposit (6bbc0ffa-ed17-44c3-ba3c-758c85cd106f)

    By Jephcott S

    The McArthur lead-zinc-silver deposit is of the stratiform type. It consists of a mineralized bituminous shale sequence containing some tuffites, numerous graded beds and isolated slump breccia horizo

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AUSIMM
    Modelling the Initial Pit Design - The First Step for Project Valuation

    By R Wolff

    One critical factor in open pit mining projects is the estimation of the recoverable reserves. The reason for this is that at the valuation stage there is a lack of information about future metal pric

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Common Infrastructure Project ù Development for the Future of PT Freeport Indonesia

    By B Mennie, R Poedjono, G Coad

    PT Freeport Indonesia operates a large copper and gold mining operation near Tembagapura, Papua (formerly, Irian Jaya), Indonesia. This is a remote location with its own set of unique operational char

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Setting Restoration Goals for Restoring Pit Lakes as Aquatic Ecosystems – A Case Study from Southwest Australia

    By E J. B van Etten

    Pit lakes may form when open cut mining leaves a pit void that then fills with ground and surface waters. This often replaces terrestrial ecosystems that existed prior to mining with an aquatic ecosys

    Oct 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Development of a cold bonding technology to high-grade iron ore concentrate

    By J Caron, M Athayde, F Lavoie, R Joyce

    Decarbonisation has become a major challenge for the global steelmaking industry, turning towards new technologies aimed at carbon footprint reduction, which on its own accounts for approximately 9 pe

    Nov 8, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Rock Deformation and Mineralization at Mount Isa

    By Hall G

    The Mount Isa silver-lead-,zinc deposit possesses a number of features which sets it apart from usual occurrences of ores containing those metals. The deposit has been described in vario:us papers, bu

    Jan 1, 1942

  • AUSIMM
    Presentation of Certificate of Honorary Membership to Sir Ian McLennan, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.

    By W. M. LONIE

    Address by the President of the Institute (Mr W M Lonie) in making the presentation of the Certificate of Honorary Membership to Sir Ian McLellan, K.C.G.M, K.B.E. Address by Sir Ian McLellan after acc

    Jan 1, 1979

  • AUSIMM
    The Influence of Slurry Rheology on the Performance of Mineral/Coal Grinding Circuits

    This paper summarises the influence of slurry rheology on the grinding throughput of batch laboratory and continuous plant-scale mills operating in open and closed circuit configurations. The resu

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AUSIMM
    Barium Dispersion in Drainage Sediments in Arid Climatic Regimes

    By Bush P. R, Hale M, Dixon C. J, Wheatley M. R

    Barium anomalies in drainage sediments can act as indicators of barite mineralization and path- finders for lead-zinc mineralization. Their detection in an arid climate has been investigated in t

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    Cities as Mine Sites of the Future

    By M Warnken

    Major cities are not only the focal point for AustralianÆs work, leisure and homes, they also are the focal point for the flow of resources into the built environment, motor cars and transportation an

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Gold Room Procedure at Lake View and Star, Ltd.

    Recovery of gold by smelting zinc dust concentrate has been carried on at Lake View and Star, Ltd., since July, 1930, when the Merrill-Crowe precipitation plant was first put into operation.Part I des

    Jan 1, 1948

  • AUSIMM
    Geology – The Affirmative Case

    By D Kepert

    It is the role of the exploration geologist to create wealth through the discovery, delineation and characterisation of economic mineralisation. This requires a critical depth of geological understand

    Jul 13, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Investigation on Collector Optimisation in the Reverse – Iron Ore Flotation

    By M S. Cassola

    It’s expected that the world economy will face a stable and continuous growth in the demand of iron ore, reaching more than two billion tonnes per year within the next year. After decades exploiting r

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Possible Future Applications of Biotechnologies in the Gold Industry - A Prospective Approach

    By C M. Zammit, N Cook, F Reith, C L. Ciobanu, J Brugger

    The role of biological agents in the gold mining industry is currently limited to the use of microorganisms in bioleaching and bioremediation. However, there is a variety of possibilities in which bio

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    A Practical and Rigorous Approach for Integrating Sustainability Principles into Decision-Making Processes at Minerals Processing Operations

    By D Tuazon, M Powell, M Ziemski, G D. Corder

    Although mining companies have made broad corporate-level commitments to adopt sustainability, there continue to be problems when attempts are made to adopt higher-level sustainability aspirations and

    Jul 10, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Excavation of the Lift 2 Crusher Hydroset Chamber and Orepass in Seismically Active Conditions at Northparkes Mines

    By A Weston

    Northparkes Mines is a joint venture between Rio Tinto and the Sumitomo group and is operated by Rio Tinto to produce copper concentrate from ore sourced from open cut and underground. Underground or

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Continuous Carbon Concentration Measurement at Newmont Boddington Gold

    By C McCamley

    "The requisite for maintaining optimal carbon concentration levels in a carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit is of paramount importance in the prevention of gold losses. The process’s ability to recover gold

    Oct 10, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Using Reverse Circulation Drilling to Improve Sampling in a Complex Underground Gold Operation – An Innovative Approach to Underground Grade Control at the Sunrise Dam Mine, Western Australia

    By F Clark, J T. Carswell

    Ore definition for final stope planning is often a challenging prospect in underground (UG) gold mines which exhibit high geological and grade variability. Unlike the grade control (GC) scenario in an

    Aug 18, 2014