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  • AUSIMM
    Training our New Starters – Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    By M Davis

    Increasing growth in the minerals industry over the past decade has raised the question of whether the standard of training for new geologists has been negatively impacted. This hypothesis was tested

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Magnetite Production for the Coal Industry

    By Williams J. D

    Magnetite has been used in coal processing for many years and it is likely that its use will continue well into the twenty first Century. While magnetite is only a minor cost component in coal proc

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    Which Way is the Wind Blowing Today? A Control Strategy Which Considers Meteorological Effects on Tunnel Ventilation

    By D J. Gray

    The 4 km long Huguenot Toll Tunnel in the Western Cape region of South Africa celebrated its tenth anniversary on 18 March 1998. At present a single (South) bore with bi-directional traffic flow is op

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Mining What's in it for New Zealand?

    By B M. H Sharp, R P. Hide, S P. Devine

    Uncertainty and debate currently pervade the mining industry in New Zealand. The operational uncertainties, whether external (eg gold prices, the exchange rate), or internal (eg coal expansion difficu

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    Geohazmap Implementation in Block Cave Mines

    By S Talu, E Savage, S Howe

    Major falls of ground, strainbursts, airblast and mudrush events are the major hazards in block caving environments, resulting in both safety and financial consequences and losses. Rio Tinto mines hav

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Rotary Drilling Automation Increasing Operator Productivity and Drilling Quality

    By L Eriksson, D Penn, J Appelgren

    Atlas Copco, a leading supplier of equipment and services to the mining and construction industries, is consistently pursuing its strategy to offer the most productive and economical solutions by cont

    Sep 18, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Cooling on demand – the next step in ventilation automation

    By F C. D Michelin

    As mines get deeper, the critical underground temperature limits will be exceeded, and an increasing number of mines will need to implement, expand or modify cooling systems. Surface cooling plants ha

    Oct 12, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    The Testing of Autogenous Grinding in Laboratory and Pilot Scale and the Design of Full Scale Comminution Circuits

    By Morsky P, Kalapudas R, Natunen H, Virtanen M

    The development of autogenous grinding modification in Outokumpu, known with the name 'Outogenius Comminution', was 'reversed'. At first the metallurgists studied and tested tens

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    Smelting of different hydrogen-reduced bauxite residue-calcite pellets for iron and alumina recovery

    By J Safarian, M K. Kar

    Bauxite residue is one of the most important by-products from the alumina industry with no commercial use till now. The utilisation of bauxite residue through pelletising with different lime additions

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Changing Over from Acid to Alkaline Circuit in Flotation Practice at the Mill of the Zinc Corporation Limited, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

    FOR some time it has been recognised by the Metallurgical Staff that the presence of pyrite in the ore was adversely affecting the grades of the flotation concentrates.Following experimental work, it

    Jan 1, 1930

  • AUSIMM
    A Description of the Stripping and Re-Timbering f the Ivanhoe South Extended Shaft, with Work Incidental Thereto

    With the post-war expansion of mmmg activities on its Western group of mines, the management of Lake View and Star Limited has commenced a project for the improvement of underground ventilation.The ma

    Jan 1, 1948

  • AUSIMM
    Drilling of Shallow Marine Sulfide-Sulfate Mineralisation in the South-Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy

    By R Sharpe, M D. Hannington, K Perrin, K Simpson, S Petersen, H Gibson, N Augustin, K Lackschewitz, T Monecke

    Semi-massive to massive sulfides were drilled in a shallow-water (630 m) hydrothermal system in an island arc volcanic setting at the Palinuro volcanic complex in the Tyrrhenian Sea,Italy. Overall 12.

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Some Aspects of Folding and Shearing at Mount Isa

    A statistical investigation of folding at Mount Isa disclosed similar patterns in both the shales and the "silica dolomite" zones. Analysis of these patterns yields 3 groups of folds fully d

    Jan 1, 1961

  • AUSIMM
    Aluminothermic production of silicon using different raw materials

    By M Zhu, G Tranell, N Simkhada, K Jakovljevic, M Wallin

    Silicon is a vital element in many products today, such as electronic components, solar devices, high-quality alloys, and many others. The growing global demand highlights the need for the development

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Sulfidisation of Ilmenite Concentrates Contaminated with Chrome Spinels – A New Approach to Impurity Separation

    By M I. Pownceby

    High temperature roasting studies on chrome-spinel contaminated ilmenite concentrates showed that sulfur, introduced through a sulfidising roast treatment, selectively reacted with the chromium in the

    Oct 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Increasing stope recovery in an underground gold mine by using effective analysis, corrective action and employee engagement processes

    By R F. Cota, C Freeman, A Heberle

    "The Lamego mine is an underground gold mine in the Iron Ore Quadrangle in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The mine produces 48 to 50 koz per annum, as part of the larger Cuiabá-Lamego Complex. This combi

    Oct 16, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Functional Performance of Ball Milling Circuits – A Plant Metallurgist’s Tool for Process Characterisation and Optimisation

    By O Arafat, K M. Bartholomew

    A voracious consumer of energy and grinding media, the modern ball milling circuit has a huge direct cost impact on a mineral processing operation. Through optimisation, grinding also has the potentia

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Iron Ore Final Grinding by High Pressure Grinding Rolls and Air Classification

    By F P. van der Meer, E Lessing, E Matthies

    High pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) technology is growing to be a common comminution tool in iron ore processing. The technology finds a wide acceptance and presents specific benefits in coarse ore gr

    Jul 13, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The Implementation of FloatStar Grade-Recovery Optimisation Control Solutions using Blue Cube Online Grade Analysers on Industrial Flotation Circuits

    By D Phillpotts, S M. Mantsho, P Strobos

    A challenge on many industrial flotation circuits is controlling concentrate mineral grades using measurements that are provided infrequently. The mineral grades in concentrate streams are a critical

    Oct 29, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Control and Monitoring of International Organization for Standardization Compliance for Industrial Sampling Systems

    By R Shaw, T T. Neidel, C Adams

    Sampling equipment manufacturers endeavour to ensure that the mechanical equipment installed in sampling systems are designed and manufactured to adhere to the requirements of the International Organi

    Jul 29, 2014