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Restoring the Site - L&M Mining Limited - Waikaka Alluvial Gold Mining Project, Southland
By D Manhire, G Hogan, M Ryan, S Whiteley
Site restoration at the L&M Mining Limited alluvial gold mining project at Waikaka near Gore, Southland is described. In 2000 mining operations started to recover alluvial gold beneath historical
Jan 1, 2003
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Geochemical Mass Balance and Characterisation of Pollutants Draining from a Nickel Mine Site
By N Dube, K L. Sandvik, C Mutevhe
Trojan Nickel Mine is the largest producer of Ni, Cu and Co in Zimbabwe. The mine has operated a nickel flotation concentrator and base metal refinery continuously since 1969, creating 28 million tonn
Jan 1, 2006
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An Assessment of Radioactivity Hazards at a Proposed Heavy Mineral Sand Mining Site
By N E. Whitehead
An application to mine an ilmenite-rich sand deposit in Westland led to public concern about potential radioactive hazards should the ore be further processed to recover zircon or monazite. A review r
Jan 1, 1993
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Key Lessons for Good Water Management ù A Case Study of Mine Site Rehabilitation
By D Newton
The Mt Morgan Minesite in Central Queensland has been subject to both underground and surface gold mining operations since the late-1800s. The site is largely unrehabilitated and poor quality surface
Jan 1, 2003
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Advanced Customisable Leach Columns – A New Kinetic Testing Method to Simulate Site-specific Conditions
By J Pearce, M Barteaux, S Pearce
The prediction of how waste materials will evolve geochemically within waste storage facilities has been the subject of hundreds of thousands of hours researched by geoscientists globally. Despite the
Jul 27, 2015
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Reducing Mine Site Extreme Rainfall Vulnerability Using Climate-related Adaptation from Terrain Evaluation Results
By M Grigorescu, J H. Hodgkinson, M Khanal
The mining industry often needs to operate in remote or climatically harsh locations. The industry has recently been forced to deal with extreme conditions including floods, heatwaves and droughts. As
Jun 22, 2016
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New perspectives in iron ore flotation – from fundamental studies to on-site pilot testing
By L O. Filippov, A Piçarra, I V. Filippova, N P. Lima, K Silva
The reverse cationic flotation using the starch as depressor of iron oxides is the most efficient upgrading process when is applied to the simple systems composed by hematite/magnetite and quartz. The
Aug 24, 2022
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Improving the Accuracy of Mine Site Water Balances through Improved Estimation of Run-off Volumes
By A Woodley, N C. Kunz
A mine site water balance is important for communicating information to interested stakeholders, for reporting on water performance and for anticipating and mitigating water-related risks through wate
Nov 26, 2013
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Potential for Revegetating Base-Metal Tailings at the Tui Mine Site, Te Aroha, New Zeland
By Gregg PEH, Horne D, Bolan N, Stewart RB
The Tui mine site is situated on the NW flank of Mt. Te Aroha, at approximately 400 m altitude. During underground mining operations two lead-copper-zinc ore bodies were exploited and processed on si
Jan 1, 1995
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Integrated Site Water Balances and Water Quality Models for Decision-making over Life-of-mine
By R Strand, B Usher
Environmental compliance and mine designs are increasingly including assessment of flows and water qualities as a key driver to decision-making over life-of-mine. Integrated site-wide water quality mo
Jul 16, 2014
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Substrate Nutrients and Ph Variations During Rehabilitation of the Wangaloa Coal Mine Site, South Otago
By D Craw, C Smith, C Martin
The Wangaloa coal mine closed in 1989, and an attempt to grow Pinus radiata on quartz-rich overburden dumps was not successful. The site is currently being rehabilitated with re-profiling and native p
Jan 1, 2004
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Understanding Mine Site Water and Salt Dynamics to Support Integrated Water Quality and Quantity Management
By S D. Golding, K Baublys, V Nanjappa, C J. Moran
Water reuse is becoming an integral component of the water management strategy on mine sites. This practise is being driven by corporate sustainability goals, community and societal pressures to demon
Jan 1, 2009
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Potential for Revegetating Base-Metal Tailings at the Tui Mine Site, Te Aroha, New Zealand
By P E. H Gregg, D Horne, R B. Stewart, N Bolan
The Tui mine site is situated on the NW flank of Mt. Te Aroha, at approximately 400 m altitude. During underground mining operations two lead-copper-zinc ore bodies were exploited and processed on sit
Jan 1, 1995
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Mine Site Environmental Management and Sustainable Post-Mining Land Use in New South Wales, Australia
The Department of Mineral Resources has a statutory responsibility for mine site environmental management and control in New South Wales. The Department is focusing on an environmental management syst
Jan 1, 2002
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Co-Site Microscopy - Combining Reflected Light Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy to Perform Ore Mineralogy
By S Paciornik
Computer-controlled microscopes with digital image acquisition and analysis led to the creation of the new field of digital microscopy. These techniques not only allow a certain degree of automation b
Jan 1, 2008
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Pairing Magnetic and E-field through-the-Earth Communication Systems Based on Mine Site Conditions
By S J. Schafrik, E S. Gilliland, E C. Jong, J Waynert, C W. Weiss
Two commercially available through-the-Earth (TTE) communications systems were evaluated at an active underground longwall mine in West Virginia. One system utilises magnetic field (H-field) antennae
Nov 4, 2015
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Developing and maintaining mine site ventilation capability and new trends in mine ventilation career paths
By D J. Brake
The importance of mine ventilation to health and safety in both coal and metalliferous mines has been long recognised. The primary and secondary ventilation systems in most metalliferous mines incur 5
Oct 12, 2022
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Opening the Doorway to Self Management in the Mining Industry - The Reduced Site Surveillance Programme
When the HSE Act was introduced in New Zealand in April 1993, one of the prime aims of the Government was to signal to the industry. The Government's recognition of the employer as the key person
Jan 1, 1997
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Numerical Modelling of a Monitored Site in an Underground Coal Mine in the Bowen Basin
By Medhurst TP, Trueman R
The aim of the paper was to model numerically some aspects of the extraction of coal pillars by split and fendering. A two-dimensional elasto-plastic plane strain model with strain softening and in
Jan 1, 1992
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On-site Process Mineralogy – Linking Departments and Disciplines with the Common Goal of Increasing Plant Performance
By D Morgan, K Jones
"In March 2015 Northparkes Mines (NPM) installed a process mineralogy facility on-site. The laboratory included a TESCAN TIMA scanning electron microscope (SEM) and was the first SEM facility to be co
Oct 10, 2016