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  • AUSIMM
    Geology and Mining of the Sundance Gold Mine, Batchelor, Northern Territory

    By P G Simpson

    The Sundance gold mine, located 2.5 km east of the town of Batchelor in the Northern Territiory, has produced over 5300 oz of gold since it was discovered in 1978. Sundance is unique in the Pine Cr

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    The Pima II: A New Technique for Field-based Alteration Mapping

    By Cocks T

    The 15-year long debate between the industry, Government and Aboriginal people about the rights and wrongs of Land Rights, the right of Aboriginal people to control development on their land and the

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    A comparison of CPT based state parameter estimates in coal boiler ash

    By B Wentzinger

    This paper presents the results of state parameter estimates in an active coal boiler ash storage facility using the most recent methods currently in use for cone penetrometer interpretation. State pa

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Cone penetration testing of gold tailings in a small calibration chamber

    By D Reid, A Fourie, J Ayala

    This paper discusses cone penetration test correlations for loose gold tailings that were developed within a critical state soil mechanics framework. The development of a new calibration chamber for c

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Advancements, innovations and initiatives for optimising the treatment of haul roads

    By H Haghighi

    Haul roads are often permanent unsealed access roads used by heavy haul trucks to transfer minerals. These roads can deteriorate rapidly which results in potholes, deformations and dust. Downer EDI Wo

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Explosive dust management system for underground coalmines, digitally integrating stone dust application, sampling plans, and results to help mitigate explosion risk

    By B Waldon, M Valastro

    A coal dust explosion is one of the most significant risks in the harsh and complex environment of an Underground Coal Mine (UCM). Reviewing literature, regulations and existing systems surrounding ex

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Smelting of nickel and vanadium wastes to produce green steel

    By D Lalor, N Goodman

    The increasing demand for batteries is resulting in the development of large-scale projects for the production of key battery metals such as nickel and vanadium. Several of these projects plan to extr

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Lighting up the dark – the use of 3D seismic to optimise mine plans at structurally complex Blackwater mine

    By N Pranoto, E Lawell, T Dean, M Grant

    The Goonyella Riverside Mine is located 30 km north of Moranbah in Central Queensland, Australia. Recent mining activities have exposed the north–south striking Kenya and Zimbabwe thrust Faults. These

    Mar 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Advances in Flotation Process Control at Porgera Gold Mine Using JK FrothCam Imaging Technology

    The Porgera gold mine has made significant progress with the successful installation of a JK FrothCam image analysis system. The system is used to measure and control froth velocity on the scavenger c

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    What Drilling Density is Optimal? ù A Case Study From the Golden Pig Mine

    By D Whitworth

    The Golden Pig mine has embarked on a diamond drill program design philosophy that increases flexibility of the program by greatly increased drill pattern densities. The use of standard broad pattern

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Trends in Magnetite Ore Processing and Test Work

    By D Yan, D Connelly

    Beneficiation of magnetite is an integral part of the future of iron ore processing. Historically, the focus of Western Australian producers has been on exporting direct shipping ore (DSO) namely haem

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Seismic Surveying for Coal Mine Planning

    More and more coal in Australia is extracted by underground mining methods especially by longwall mining. These methods can be particularly sensitive to relatively small-scale structural discontinuiti

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Visual Computing and Mine Design

    Visual computing opens the design process to a wider audience and allows rapid communication of mine plans to all stakeholders. The integration of software and hardware technologies that take advantag

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Mining Network and the Security Question

    By A Huebner, A Noack

    Companies all over the world are very sensitive concerning their IT and network security. In most network connected technical installations and machines however, network security is not taken into acc

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Developing and Implementing Ore-Specific Targets for the Rosebery Concentrator

    Production targets are the basis for almost every decision made by operations personnel in the daily operation of a concentrator. It is the production targets that determine how the plant is operated

    Oct 29, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    What Project Managers must Demand from an Economic Evaluation!

    By P Card

    Some project managers accept unsatisfactory economic evaluation modelling because they are unaware of what constitutes good practice. They tend to leave it to the evaluation specialist or others to de

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Applications of Ceramic Wear Materials in the Gold Industry

    By R Stead

    So many ceramics look the same, but are they?In the past 20 years, there have been significant changes in the materials available, as well as changes to the supply chain, for ceramics used in wear app

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Optimising Carbon Management – Increasing Gold Recovery and Decreasing Costs with the Carbon Scout

    By T D. H McGrath, O Baker, W P. Staunton, C Ypelaan

    "The carbon-in-pulp process has been used extensively in the gold industry since the late 1970s to recovery leached gold from solution. Despite more than 30 years of experience in operating carbon cir

    Oct 10, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Magnetic Recovery of Gold-Bearing Iron Oxides at Barrick GoldstrikeÆs Roaster

    By L Semenyna, W Douglas

    Gold is often present in solid solution with pyrite in the Carlin Trend. The presence of organic carbon along with gold hosted in sulfide, referred to as double refractory ore, requires that ore with

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    The Benefits of using Photogrammetry in the Geological Interpretation of the Cosmos Nickel Mine

    By K Rees

    In the ideal world of an underground mining engineer, all narrow vein orebodies would be perfectly straight and continuous, thus would be a dream to mine. However, this is usually not the case. Narrow

    Mar 26, 2012