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  • AUSIMM
    The Development of Pyritic Smelting: An Outline of its History

    There is a well-known saying, variously attributed to the great King Solomon and other sages of antiquity, to the effect that 'there is nothing new under the sun'. The inventive genius of ma

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    Floating a Mining Company in the 1980s

    Although mining, particularly of gold and coal, played a significant role in the development of New Zealand, from the time of the spectacular gold rushes of the 1860s its economic importance to the co

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Influence of Section Intake Dust Levels as an Exposure Assessment Parameter in Dust Exposure Level Index (DELI) Model

    By H R. Phillips

    Fresh air intake in an underground coal mine is of critical importance to the occupational health and safety of workers due to the dynamic, confined and dangerous nature of the mining environment. In

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Non-Mining Costs Associated with a Mine Development

    All companies and individuals who embark on a business venture incur costs. For the most part these costs can be conveniently categorised, firstly into capital and operating costs and then into the va

    Jan 1, 1977

  • AUSIMM
    Quantifying the energy efficiency transformation at Cadia due to HPGR crushing

    By J Seppelt, G S. Lane, E Wang

    Newcrest’s Cadia concentrator operated from 1998 to 2012 with a traditional SABC grinding circuit treating Cadia open pit ore. The Cadia comminution circuit was well characterised through surveys and

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Concept and Operation of the New Conventional Cell House of Asturiana de Zinc at San Juan de Nieva, Spain

    By LefTvre Y

    In May 1991, AZSA commissioned a new conventional Cell House. This paper focuses on the major improvements introduced in the design and the construction of the equipment, machinery and control. An e

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    Developing Australia's First Block Caving Opeartion at Northparkes Mines - Endeavour 26 Deposit

    The introduction of a new mining method to Australia is not without its risks and challenges. This paper discusses the processes of planning a new operation, with particular emphasis on block caving

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Multiparallel Fan Method to Prevent Significant External Air Leakages through a Goaf Area of a Shallow Covered Coalmine

    By F Wu, H Wang, W Chen

    A pressurisation method with multiparallel fans has been adopted at HongLiuLin Coalmine to control the significant external air leakage through the goaf area of coalface 15207. Potential damaging effe

    Aug 31, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Materials Handling at Olympic Dam Mine - Olympic Dam Aiming for æGoldÆ

    WMC Limited, owner/operator of Olympic Dam, the worldÆs largest underground uranium mine and the fourth largest underground copper mine has now completed an expansion that has been classed as a benchm

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Union Reefs: A Project Assessment and Development Case History

    By Giles D, Wegmann D

    The Mt Todd Gold Project is located 42 km northwest of the township of Katherine within the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated in the southeastern portion of the Pine Creek Geosyncline.

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    Slag-metal interfacial reactions in pyrometallurgical processing of industrial wastes for recovery of valuable metals

    By J H. Park, R R. Kim, H S. Park, H J. Kim

    This study focuses on the recovery of valuable metals, specifically silver (Ag) and palladium (Pd), from copper-containing sludge (with copper content less than 20 per cent) generated during PCB proce

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Microwave heating behaviour of ores and its application to high-power microwave assisted comminution and ore sorting

    By X Tian, J Forster, A Olmsted, E R. Bobicki, M Goldbaum, D Boucher, C A. Pickles

    As the global demand for metal values expands, it becomes increasingly important to create more sustainable mining operations. Consequently, considerable research and technology development is require

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Prediction of Burden at the Sungun Copper Mine by Artificial Neural Network

    By H Khoshrou, A Siamaki

    Blast designs can have productive and non-productive impacts on downstream stages, mine productivity and operating costs. On the other hand, ground vibration, fragmentation, and back break caused by b

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Tectonics and Gold Mineralisation in East China

    China has been producing gold for more than 4000 years with gold production increasing substantially since the 1980s, from about 25 tonnes in 1980 to some 160 tonnes in 1998. More than 80 per cent of

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Looking for an Adequate Drilling Spacing and Heterotopic Sampling û An Iron Ore Example

    By D T. Ribeiro, J F. C L Costa, J C. Koppe

    Drilling and sampling are responsible for most of the costs during mineral exploration, especially in multi-elements and polymetallic deposits, such as iron, manganese and bauxite deposits. On these d

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Temporary Support Design for the Largest Road Caverns Ever Built in Australia – The Lutwyche Caverns

    By N McKenzie, E Taylor, S V. L Barrett, H Lagger, A Purwodihardjo

    This paper discusses the temporary support design methodology for the largest road caverns ever built in Australia—the Lutwyche Caverns—part of the Airport Link project in Brisbane, Australia. The Lut

    Sep 17, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Investigations on Fume Losses at the Sulphide Corporation's Works at Cockle Creek, N.S.W.

    The paper continues an account, begun in a previous paper, of experimental work carried out by the author whilst a member of the metallurgical staff at the Cockle Creek Works. The general method of th

    Jan 1, 1925

  • AUSIMM
    Beneficiating a Low Yield Coking Coal at Iscor's Grootegeluk Coal Mine

    The Grootegeluk coal beneficiation plant is situated near Ellisras in the Waterberg coal= field in the Transvaal, RSA. At this plant 15 million tons of coal bearing material per annum are benefici

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Passivation effect of immobilised ferric (hydroxy-)xanthate upon calcium/magnesium precipitates on the pyrite depression in alkaline conditions

    By T Suwa, S Ishida, J Xue, S Fuchida, H Shimada, Y Aoki, C Tokoro

    Pyrite depression with prolonged pre-conditioning treatment in high salinity water has attracted much of researchers’ interest in recent years considering the increased utilisation of multiple stage f

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    A Methodology for Rock Mass Characterisation to Control Blast-induced Vibrations

    By A Karrech, E Hamdi

    The uncertainty of geomaterials properties is commonly encountered in resource engineering applications, especially in mining engineering where the rock mass texture, joints, fractures and damage zone

    Aug 24, 2015