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  • AUSIMM
    The basics of grinding circuit optimisation

    By A Giblett, B Putland

    This paper provides a simple guiding framework for grinding circuit optimisation, focussing on common themes in past optimisation success stories, the conditions for success and techniques that can be

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Process optimization of Mount Morgan gold tailing retreatment plant

    By Hampshire MJ

    The tailing retreatment project rated at 10 000 t/day commenced operations in October 1982. The operation consists of dredging, feed preparation, cyanide leaching and carbon-in-pulp (CIP) gold reco

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    Investing in new process improvement technology: reducing the risk of implementation – a way forward

    By S H. Algie, E J. Knoblauch, I A. Lovatt, S G. Doig

    Mill operating teams are expected to engage in a perpetual quest for process improvement – pushing the boundaries of practical process limits and testing new technology to achieve the next step-change

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Monitoring and Control in the Recirculation of Underground Ventilation Air

    By Walker K, Burton RC

    An outline of the ventilation and refrigeration requirements of deep South African gold mines is presented. This is followed by a brief description of the history of controlled recirculation in mines

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    Exploring the Use of Fibre Reinforced Shotcrete in Large Diameter Shafts

    By D J. Kilkenny, D A. O’Toole, P B. Hills, K L. Seah

    An investigation was undertaken to critically analyse the use of fibre reinforced shotcrete (FRS) for a variety of applications in large diameter shafts. Those applications included the use of FRS wit

    Nov 5, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Bolivia - A New Frontier

    Bolivia, due to its turbulent past with a history of constant military coups, has given an image of complete instability to the foreign investor. The effects of this have been several fold, the majo

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    Technology change by regulation – a cresting wave?

    By J D. Pease, J M. I Tuppurainen, P D. Munro

    This paper examines how legislation and regulation can be external drivers of technical change in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy and how the industry can respond. Two examples are consid

    Sep 11, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Flotation of Unclassified Ball Mill Discharge for the Recovery of the Lead and Zinc Concentrates

    The sulphide ore occurring in the North Mine at Broken Hill is of a complex nature, consisting of an intimate mixture of argentiferous galena, marmatite (zinc-iron sulphide), and gangue minerals. A ty

    Jan 1, 1933

  • AUSIMM
    Concentrating Practice of the Broken Hill South Limited, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

    By Read T. A

    THE Broken Hill South Ltd. is one of ten companies operating on the Broken Hill lode (See Fig. 1). It has two leases-Blocks 7 and 8-of a total length of 2250 ft. on strike of lode.From the surface to

    Jan 1, 1921

  • AUSIMM
    The Solvent Extraction of Uranium from Slurries

    A great range of contacting equipment is used in solvent extraction. However, a tower filled with a regular packing offers many advantages in the direct extraction from slurries. A study was made of

    Jan 1, 1969

  • AUSIMM
    Characterisation of Coal Micro-Structure Using Scanning Electron Microscopy

    By Beamish B. B

    In this study, a systematic examination of the scale and variety of micro-structures in coal using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has been carried out, using coal samples of differing stages of

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    Real Time Mine Management Systems - Delivering Value Adding Information to the Mining Workplace

    The Macquarie Dictionary defines `information' as: knowledge communicated or received concerning some fact or circumstance; (in communicating theory): a quantitative measure of the contents of

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Australian Participation in the Ocean Drilling Program: an Economic Geology Perspective (Australian ODP Secretariat, Department ofEarth Sciences)

    By Rowena C. Duckworth

    The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) is the largest international geoscience project in the world, and the state-of-the-art drill ship, the JOIDES Resolution, is permanently at sea. Each year there are s

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Reducing the Cost of Drill and Blast Tunnel Work by Use of Tunnel Operations Analysers

    By Maidl B

    A tunnel operations analyser is a new high technol- ogy instrument for use in underground work. By remotely sensing the acoustic emissions from operating machines and processes in a tunnel or shaft

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Not for the Faint-Hearted

    By J Whittle

    This paper describes what is involved in carrying out a comprehensive optimisation of a long-term operating schedule for a mining complex. It details the data that must be assembled and discusses the

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Transfer Function – New Method to Accurately Predict Resonant Frequencies of a Highwall

    By R Osterman

    As mining companies have to go deeper in search of ore and coal, the importance of protecting the highwall increases. Wall fatigue also increases with importance of the long life expectancy of a highw

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Sampling Systems for Process Control and Metallurgical Accounting

    By F F. Pitard

    The optimisation of a metallurgical plant requires two kinds of sampling systems. The first provides samples to follow process changes, so in due time actions to maintain key parameters within pre-est

    Jul 29, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Case History of the Discovery of the Hishikari Gold Deposit, Japan

    The Hishikari gold deposit, discovered by the Metal Mining Agency of Japan, has become a giant class epithermal gold deposit with the highest grade of gold yet recorded in the world through detailed

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Aligning Resource Estimates with Mine Planning

    By D Kentwell

    A resource model serves two main purposes depending on the stage of a project. The first is to provide an early indication of likely tonnages and grades at certain cut-offs so that decisions can be ma

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Above/Belowground Feedback May Facilitate and Sustain Mono-Dominance on Rehabilitated North Stradbroke Island

    By V Glenn, P McKenna, H Vickers, P Audet, M J. Gillespie, A Gravina, D R. Mulligan

    A requisite corollary of mineral sand mining on North Stradbroake Island (Queensland (Qld), Australia) has been the progressive rehabilitation of post-mined lands for the revegetation of native subtro

    Jul 10, 2012