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Landform Design for Pilbara Mine Site – Why Plan and Design Waste Rock Dumps for Closure Based on Site-specific Conditions?
By G Hancock, A Kemp, I Taylor
The mine site is situated south east of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. A detailed engineering design was undertaken for six irregularly shaped waste rock dumps at the site. T
Jul 16, 2014
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Mineralization Related to Sea Level Changes
Although the effects of sea level changes on ore concentration processes are to some extent obvious with certain deposits, e.g. beach placer deposits, they have been largely overlooked with others
Jan 1, 1987
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Achieving Better Mine Closure Outcomes for Less Money
By B Howard, M Jones, D Pershke
"Current closure objectives and criteria are often difficult to achieve and are not delivering value for money outcomes at closure. Current mine closure processes tend to focus on rehabilitation and r
Jul 16, 2014
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Dust Mitigation - Changing the Paradigm
By J Visser
Dust mitigation has long been seen as nothing more than managing a nuisance issue, but the reality is that poor dust management can lead to one or more of the following negative consequences: an incre
Aug 12, 2013
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Using Dynamic Simulation Throughout a Process Plant's Life Cycle
Using Dynamic Simulation Throughout a Process Plant's Life Cycle
Sep 13, 2010
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Considerations and Challenges in the Design and Construction of Tunnels for Remote Hydropower Projects
By A G. Noble
Tunnelling for hydro-electric power projects can be a very challenging component of the overall development. In contrast to urban transportation tunnelling where the logistics for access and supply of
Mar 8, 2011
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Kopanang Mine Rail Haulage Tramming System
With the theme of û æUnderground Ore Handling SystemÆ, Kopanang Mine completed an extensive project on a specific system with technologies for the handling of ore from a dedicated drawpoint to the sha
Jan 1, 2005
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Health Impacts Extend from the Life of a Mine to the Life of a Community - Knowledge Gaps
By P Kirsch, P Jagals, D Viswanathan, J Shandro, R LaBouchardiere
The planning, design and operation of mines must include the development of positive environmental, community and land-use benefits if it is to achieve good corporate social responsibility and minimis
Jul 10, 2012
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How to select appropriate instrumentation to safeguard TSFs against credible failure modes
By P J. Chapman
Recent catastrophic failures of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) continue to highlight the need for a detailed understanding of failure modes and the defences that are in place within the design to
Jul 1, 2021
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The Activity of Zinc and Lead Oxides in Lead Blast Furnace Slags
By Denholm W. T, Rankin W. J
The reduction of zinc from lead blast furnace slags using hydrogen was studied at 1300¦C as part of a laboratory investigation of zinc fuming. To perform the experiments, 300 g "spent slag" was mel
Jan 1, 1989
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Effective Use of Mine Waste in the Design of a Residue Storage Facility, Pilbara Region, Western Australia
By A Wanninayake, E Novello, I Gillani
A residue storage facility (RSF) was designed to cater for Davidson Creek Area and Robertson Range Area operations under the FerrAus Pilbara iron ore development project in the Pilbara Region, Western
Aug 12, 2013
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Simulation Modelling of Grade Variability for Iron Ore Mining, Crushing, Stockpiling and Ship Loading Operations
By K Jupp, T J. Howard
Cliffs Natural Resources Pty Ltd (CNR) operates iron ore mines in the Koolyanobbing region of Western Australia, about 50 km north of the town of Southern Cross. Ore is trucked from three geographical
Jan 1, 2009
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Gold Processing with Saline Water
By Muir D. M
Highly saline process water has a number of implications for the CIP process during the leaching, adsorption and recovery of gold. The reduced oxygen solubility in saline water can seriously reduce th
Jan 1, 1994
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Injection of Coal-Oil Mixture into Blast Furnace
By Tamura S, Maekawa M, Nagai C, Deguchi M
Heavy fuel oil has been injected into blast furnaces in order to reduce the coke rate, to improve productivity and to control the furnace heat condition. However, in the first oil crisis at the en
Jan 1, 1981
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Lateral Zonation within Epithermal Gold Mineralisation, Misima Island, Papua New Guinea
The Mount Sisa orebody on Misima Island, P.N.G., consists of goldsilver mineralisation associated with massive carbonate and amorphous iron-manganese oxides in fractures and breccia matrix. The orebod
Jan 1, 1988
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Balancing the benefits and impacts of future copper demand – climate change and arsenic
By P J. Bangerter, G D. Corder
With the societal desire and drive towards low carbon energy sources, there is a growing awareness of the important role that minerals and metals will play with renewable energy technologies. Copper
Jul 25, 2018
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Flotation Cell Design û Experiences with the Jameson Cell
By Manlapig E. V
ABSTRACT- I Results are given for a series of tests in which a 300 mm pilot-scale Jameson cell has been used in copper recleaner flotation, and for the flotation of a lead rougher feed. the results
Jan 1, 1991
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Maintaining Sample Data Quality Through Robust Quality Assurance and Quality Control Protocols
Successful evaluation and exploitation of resources and reserves relies on the collection of high quality sample data. The quality of the sample data must be maintained through the application of a ro
Mar 1, 2010
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Critical control management – our journey so far and the road ahead
By A Deakin
It has been almost a decade since the release of the International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM) Health and Safety Critical Control Management: Good Practice Guide (2015a). During this time the
Apr 16, 2024
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Perspectives on the Long-term Outlook for Iron Ore
By J P. Barkas
World demand for iron ore is far from peaking, and the substantial price decline that has captivated commentators since early 2014 is not the result of widespread misreading by producers of the prospe
Jul 13, 2015