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  • AUSIMM
    Application of Research Principles to Identify Process Improvement at Sunrise Dam Gold Mine

    By N Clarke, G R. Ballantyne, M S. Powell, P Elms, A Anyimadu

    AngloGold Ashanti Ltd nominated Sunrise Dam Gold Mine as a case study via their involvement with the long-running Australian Mineral Industry Research Association (AMIRA) International P9P research pr

    Sep 7, 2015

  • TMS
    A Study on the Mechanism of Magnetite Formation Based on Iron Isotope Fractionation

    By Payman Roonasi

    Having knowledge of mechanism of magnetite formation is essential in a number of industrial processes including magnetite synthesis and corrosion of iron. In this study, magnetite nanoparticle was syn

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Paper No. 130. Gold Dredging in Otago.

    As the chief field of the gold dredging industry in Otago is the district traversed by the Molyneux River (called above Cromwell the Clutha) and its tributaries, a brief reference to the geology of th

    Jan 1, 1903

  • SME
    Deterministic And Stochastic Water Balance Modeling Of The Gilt Edge Mine Superfund Site, South Dakota

    By K. Wangerud, B. S. Caruso

    A water balance model with deterministic and stochastic components was developed and used for the Gilt Edge Mine Superfund Site, South Dakota, to evaluate risks of contaminated runoff discharging to s

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Numerical Modeling of Mining-Induced Stress and Microseismic Response using FLAC3D

    By Shahé Shnorhokian

    A study was conducted on the seismic activities and associated rockburst events that took place at an underground Canadian metal mine over a period of five years. In the first stage, a back analysis o

    May 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    A Systems Perspective of Sustainability in the Mining Industry and Suggestions for Indicator Development

    By P Mesquita, A Nolan

    Using a scientific-principled definition of global socio-ecological sustainability can be a useful basis for planning precious and base metal mining projects. The mining industry faces key challenges

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    Formation Of Interlocking Jet Grout Columns At Large Depth

    By Chu E. Ho

    Jet grout column formation at large depths are prone to several uncertainties, such as inaccuracy in setting out boreholes, drilling deviation, soil variability and reduced jetting energy at the nozzl

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Statistics or geostatistics? Sampling error or nugget effect? - Synopsis

    What is a nugget effect? In the early development of geostatistics, the term ?nugget effect? was coined for the apparent discontinuity at the beginning of many semivariogram graphs. This name was chos

    Jan 1, 2010

  • IOM3
    New biological treatment plant for heavy metal-contaminated groundwater

    By L. J. Barnes, R. O. Koch, J. H. Versteegh, C. J. N. Buisman, P. J. H. Scheeren

    Several water treatment options have been studied and piloted. A process based on activity of sulphate reducing bacteria combines sulphate removal and heavy metal removal in one process step. The anae

    Jan 12, 1992

  • CIM
    Regional and Local Patterns of CO2-K-Rb-As Alteration: A Guide to Gold in the Timmins Area

    By D. Duff, R. A. Cameron, R. E. S. Whitehead

    "Although CO2 content indicates the quantity of carbonate in altered basaltic rocks, it does not measure the intensity of carbonate alteration. CO/CaO molar ratios, which correlate with the relative p

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    A Heuristic Sublevel Stope Optimizer With Multiple Raises

    By X. Bai

    A new heuristic sublevel mining stope optimizer is presented. The optimizer seeks the best locations and lengths of a series of vertical raises that, together with the blocks linked to each raise, def

    Jan 1, 2014

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Commodity Summaries 1992 - Significant Events In 1991

    The value of processed materials of mineral origin was estimated to have exceeded $297 billion in 1991. U.S. raw non fuel minerals production in 1991 was estimated at $30.8 billion, a 5.8% decline fro

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SAIMM
    Stabilizing And Bracket Pillar Design To Reduce Seismicity

    By F. M. C. C. Vieira

    The work described forms part of a Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee (SIMRAC) funded project, currently an ongoing programme of research aimed at providing ?improved criteria, guidelines and

    Jan 1, 1998

  • NIOSH
    OFR-96-83 A Study Of Explosion-Proof Enclosures

    By P. A. Cox

    The purpose of the initial research performed under this contract was to determine the margins of safety in explosion-proof (XP) enclosures, which were designed and certified according to the current

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Hismelt« - Direct Ironmaking Becomes a Reality

    Following extensive trials on a 100 000 tpa Research and Development facility at Kwinana, Western Australia, Hismelt Corporation (wholly owned by Rio Tinto) are confident of the future commercial su

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SAIMM
    The value proposition of circulating fluidized-bed technology for the utility power sector

    By N. J. Castilla, R. Giglio

    "Circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) combustion technology has been around for over 40 years, but over the last 6 years it has been commercially demonstrated at the 500 MWe scale at the Lagisza plant loca

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Rod and ball mill circuits

    By Concentrator Staff

    "IntroductionA brief literature search will reveal that the information available concerning rod mills and ball mills is quite extensive. This type of equipment is used to treat every element from ant

    Jan 1, 1989

  • NIOSH
    RI 4150 Investigation of Coal Deposits for Local Use in the Arctic Regions of Alaska and Proposed Mine Development

    By Albert L. Toenges, Theodore R. Jolley

    "INTRODUCTION The construction of frame houses (fig. 1) in recent years instead of the conventional sod hut (igloo) (fig. 2) by the Eskimos in the villages along the Arctic Ocean has increased the dem

    Dec 1, 1947

  • ISEE
    Dynamite Daze

    I attended a funeral in West Monroe, Louisiana, for one of the best powder peddlers I’ve ever known. He started work in 1948 for Dixie Dynamite, a seismograph explosive distributor. His first job was

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Some aspects of international shotcreting practice ? Synopsis

    By A. Boniface

    The International Tunnel and Underground Space Association (ITA) has a number of working groups (WG) that meet at least once a year. One of these is WG12, ?Use of Shotcrete?, of which the author is a

    Jan 1, 2008