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  • AUSIMM
    Australian Innovation in African Heavy-Haul Rail

    By K Devencorn

    The development of robust, economical transport infrastructure has been identified as a key driver to sovereign economic growth. Notwithstanding the value of undeveloped mineral resources, unless they

    Nov 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Meta incident analysis – an analysis of incident and near miss reporting within a major Australian commodity port

    By A Fern, A Hawkes, o, W Smith, K Mee

    Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention remains a priority focus within high-risk industries sector. A major mining operation sought to strengthen their approach to the management of high-risk ac

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Caterpillar 3500 Series Engines for Off Highway Trucks

    A new engine family has been developed by Caterpillar Tractor Co. for application in off-highway trucks. This family, the 3500 Series is available in three configurations, covering a 600-1200 kilow

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Development and Implementation of the CaveCAD Ground Support Module for Cost and Safety Improvements in Block Cave Mines

    By S Talu, E Savage, P Sturm, A van As

    It is estimated that substandard ground support installations and elements cost the Rio Tinto Copper Group millions of dollars between 2000 and 2014. These issues have also created significant safety

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Ensuring an Effective Principal Hazard Management Plan

    By A J. Clough

    There has been an unprecedented rise in the fatality rate in the Australian mining industry over the last few years. The factors behind this rise are not clear; however, it is noted that the increase

    Aug 31, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The Impact of Flocculant Addition on a Tailings Storage Facility

    Water retention, water loss and delay in tailings storage rehabilitation are major challenges for many Coal Mines. Work by Stewart, Backer and Busch in the early 1980s suggested that there were improv

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Identify, Convert and Sustain – Resource Development in the Pilbara – The Rio Tinto Way

    By G Danckert

    The key technical theme of ‘orebody knowledge’ has been applied by Rio Tinto in the Pilbara iron ore precinct from 1966, when operations first started there. It forms the basis of present day applicat

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Aerodynamic Aspects of Auxiliary Fuel Injection Procedures to Blast Furnaces

    By Storey AG

    Following initial plant scale work on the development and performance of 'spray' oil lances, a full scale room temperature model of the blowpipe-tuyere region of a blast furnace was built t

    Jan 1, 1975

  • AUSIMM
    Design and calibration of a climate resilient Type B (adapted) sediment basin at the Dugald River Mine in the north-west Queensland minerals province

    By A Harburg, A Dendys, G Green

    Dugald River Mine (DRM) is located approximately 85 km north-east of Mount Isa, and 65 km northwest of Cloncurry, in the north-west Queensland Minerals Province of Australia. DRM is an underground ope

    Aug 2, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of the Kapit Orebody, Lihir Island Group, Papua New Guinea

    By J R. Robinson

    Prior to mine development, exploration drilling within the Luise Caldera on Niolam Island encountered gold mineralisation to the northwest of the main Minifie and Lienetz orebodies. This mineralisatio

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Sampling Quality Assurance and Quality Control Requirements for Mining Projects

    The creation of an accurate and precise enough database requires the collection of many representative samples, subsampling and assaying them without destroying their integrity. The selection and impl

    Mar 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Implications of the Carbon Price and Developing a Carbon Strategy

    By P Holt, M Allen

    On the first of July, 2012, the Australian GovernmentÆs Clean Energy Act commenced. From this point, a price of $23/t of CO2-e will apply to facilities that trip the liability threshold. This first pa

    Nov 20, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Non-Linear Geostatistics for Geometallurgical Optimisation

    By K G. van den Boogaart, S Konsulke, R Tolosana Delgado

    Adaptive mineral processing has to rely on spatially predicted information on primary geometallurgical parameters, like phase composition, size and shape distributions of grains from various phases, p

    Sep 29, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Full Cycle Tailings Management at Fosterville Gold Mine

    By L P. Gray

    "From paving the way in gaining approval for the first metalliferous in-pit tailings storage facility (TSF) in Victoria, to developing a deposition methodology to optimise the storage capacity and pro

    Oct 10, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Quantifying the effect of climate and surface materials on post-mining landscape erosion – a risk approach using landscape evolution models

    By D C. Verdon-Kidd, G R. Hancock, M J. Saynor, J B. C Lowry, T J. Coulthard

    Designing post-mining landscapes requires quantifying the short and long-term risks. In recent years, computer based landscape evolution models (LEMs) have been used to provide insight into both erosi

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Automated Multi-Drills in Rio Tinto

    By C McHugh, F Oppolzer, B Rogers, A Stokes

    Rio Tinto has embarked on a journey to use automation to improve the performance of its surface mines. The driver for automation has more to do with improving the accuracy and consistency of mining pr

    Sep 18, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    MEMS – The Mine Event Management System: a process to assist with incident management

    By B Stewart

    It has long been recognised that knowledge of the conditions existing in a mine after an incident is essential in deciding whether to deploy responders as part of the incident recovery process. Applyi

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Preventing unwanted events critical controls – success and failure in implementing the ICMM guidance

    By A P. Wilkinson

    This paper reports on the implementation of the critical control concept to manage material risks in the mining and metals industries. The critical control management (CCM) approach assumes it is bett

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Putting the ‘GEO’ back in front of GEOmetallurgy: importance of early implementation of quantitative mineral system characterisation, classification and modelling

    By W Potma, C Brauhart, S Halley, S Urbisinov, A Scogings

    Truly integrated, quantitative, 3D GEOmetallurgical (or mineral system) characterisation, classification and 3D modelling should provide a cradle to grave unifying link across the exploration and mini

    Nov 21, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Envisioning the rehabilitation of assets through co-design and gamification

    By S Grant, S Emeric, P Baker, E Jones, D Clark

    As we strive for a sustainable and resilient future, repurposing assets has become a top priority. In Australia alone, we have a significant number of mineral projects in the pipeline, extensive exist

    Aug 2, 2023