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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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