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  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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