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  • AUSIMM
    Improved recoveries and environmental outcomes from complex ores utilising EcoTechnology

    By M Noakes

    EcoTechnology refers to a series of potential metallurgical processes for complex ores, concentrates, tailings and slags that are all based on an initial chlorination step at low to moderate temperatu

    Nov 21, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    The Preparation and Consolidation of Tantalum Powder

    Following the preparation of tantalum oxide and carbide (1) an investigation of the details relating to the production of tantalum metal powder was planned. From the literature (2) it was evident that

    Jan 1, 1946

  • AUSIMM
    Modelling Dust Plume Movement Resulting from Surface Blasting Operations

    By S Bhandari

    A model for predicting dust plume dispersion from blasting operations using the Eulerian mathematical algorithm has been developed. This model considers atmospheric stability, and wind velocity and di

    Nov 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Stable Isotope Relationships in Epithermal Gold Deposits, Queensland

    By Wilson AF

    Gold-silver mineralization at Cracow and Ukalunda in Queensland comprise quartz-filled veins, fissures and breccia zones hosted by propylitically altered volcanics and epizonal intrusions which are st

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Advanced Ventilation Control – An Analysis of Innovation and Environmental Sustainability

    By V S. Mutton, M J. Shearer

    "The current economic challenges faced by the mining industry led to a review of options for reducing the cost of ventilation control devices (VCDs). The VCDs at the Mount Isa Mines site operated by G

    Aug 31, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    QAQC – proactive Quality Management (QM) supporting reconciliation results

    By O Dominguez

    Significant value can be added to ore supplied from the mine to the mill by measuring its quality in real time and performing grade control additional to that within the mine. Responsibility for ore q

    Mar 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Sampling Quality Assurance and Quality Control Requirements for Mining Projects

    The creation of an accurate and precise enough database requires the collection of many representative samples, subsampling and assaying them without destroying their integrity. The selection and impl

    Mar 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Excavating a Tunnel in the Foothills of the Southern Alps of New Zealand

    By E Giles

    Pike River Coal Limited (PRCL) is opening a new underground coal mine in the Paparoa Ranges north-east of Greymouth. To access the coal reserves, PRCL have had to build a 13 km access road through reg

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Issues Confronting Major Expansions and New Developments

    The mining industry has expanded significantly in the Pacific Region over the past two decades through a mix of new developments and brownfields expansions of existing operations. Despite this overall

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Sensible Cost Cutting for Resource Projects

    By D Connelly

    As the resources sector becomes tougher with rising costs and cyclical metal prices, mining companies need to continue to reduce their costs and do more with less. Many new resource projects fail to c

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Issues in Capital Raisings and Disclosure

    By B Dodd

    This paper details how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), as a disclosure and conduct regulator, approaches regulation of continuous disclosure, capital raising and control t

    Nov 20, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    A Simple Technique for Using High Energy in Blasting

    By S J. Hawke, L A. Dominguez

    In non-ferrous metal mining operations, it is generally necessary to crush and grind the ore to a very fine particle size to effectively liberate the contained mineral from the host rock. Fragmentatio

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    CIP ù Who Needs It? A Combination Circuit of Gravity, Flotation and Intensive Leach May Provide the Optimal Environmental and Cost Outcome for Gold Plants ù Stage II ù Results

    By A McCallum, J Abols, G Patrick, G Johansen

    The authors challenge the traditional thinking that whole ore cyanidation followed by Carbon in Pulp (CIP) or Carbon in Leach (CIL) should be applied as a standard process in the majority of gold proc

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Comparison of Empirical Fragmentation Models at the Gol-Gohar Iron Ore Mine

    By M Jahani, M Taji

    For suitable production planning in an open pit mine, and also to carry out the optimisation process during the mining production cycle, prediction of fragment size distribution is required prior to c

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Case History of the Discovery of the Hishikari Gold Deposit, Japan

    The Hishikari gold deposit, discovered by the Metal Mining Agency of Japan, has become a giant class epithermal gold deposit with the highest grade of gold yet recorded in the world through detailed

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    The Status of Gold Exploration in Papua New Guinea

    ABSTRACT' The first references to gold in New Guinea were by the Portuguese in 1525. The first significant discovery and gold rush was on Sudest Island in 1888 and was a natural extension of

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Ventilation Design for Xstrata Copper's Ernest Henry Underground Project Prefeasibility Study

    The Ernest Henry Mine is an open pit copper-gold mining operation located in north-west Queensland, Australia. It is owned and operated by Xstrata Copper with a current concentrator throughput of appr

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    æDryÆ Granulation of Slags for Producing Cement Binder

    By B, T Norgate, S Sanetsis, R Davidson

    Global cement production accounts for about five per cent of man-made CO2 emissions (WBCSD, 2002). Such operating practices will increasingly be considered unsustainable, unless significant reductions

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Origin and Provenance of Submarine Volcaniclastic Rocks in the Late Permian Drake Volcanics, Northeastern New South Wales

    The Late Permian intermediate to silicic talc-alkaline Drake Volcanics of New England, N.S.W., consist largely of shallow marine, redeposited volcaniclastic rocks which host epithermal Ag-Au depos

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Unmanned Aerial Robots for Remotely Operated and Autonomous Surveying in Inaccessible Underground Mine Voids

    By A Grace, C Sennersten, T Taylor, A Davie, R Lyu, D Pentecost, C A. Lindley, J Craig, L De Macedo Camargo

    Many underground mine void spaces are not suitable for human entry due to unprotected roofs, instability or having an unknown safety state (eg if they are many decades old). Investigations of these vo

    Nov 4, 2015