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  • AUSIMM
    Findings and Conclusions Following ‘Long-term’ Cover System Monitoring – Refinement of the Conceptual Design for Tailings Storage Facility Closure

    By R Barritt, P Scott, K Albano

    Successful closure of tailings storage facilities (TSFs) is an environmental issue faced globally by metalliferous mines. During the initial feasibility and design phase of the mine life importance is

    Jun 28, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    The Contribution of Diamond Drilling to the Geology and Development of the Ipswich Coalfield

    Drilling at Ipswich during the last twelve years by the Queensland Department of Mines has proved large quantities of reserves which have assured the security of the field for many years to come. This

    Jan 1, 1963

  • AUSIMM
    The Effect of Seasonal Variations on the Performance of Mineral Processing Plants – A Case Study of Deposit-10/11A Mine of NMDC Ltd

    By S Das

    Deposit-10/11A is situated in the iron rich Bailadila region of India comprising haematite ore of average grade 65 per cent Fe. The deposit production line was commissioned in the year 2002 having a c

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Ground support design of Northparkes E26 Lift 1 North block cave mine

    By Z Li, A Fleming, S Webster, L Snyman

    Northparkes Mines is developing the E26 Lift 1 North block cave mine, which is adjoined to the existing E26 cave. This paper presents the challenges and methods used to design the ground support syste

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Diversity in Leadership - 'Be Free, in a Unfree World'

    Diversity; what a wonderful topic. Diversity; the condition or quality of being diverse, different, varied to the point that the very word diversity means different things to different people. As on

    Jan 1, 1996

  • AUSIMM
    Development of a Method for the Tracking of Environmental Management: Progress at Solid Energy

    By T Preston

    Solid Energy is the largest coal producing company in New Zealand, employing 500 people and more than 250 mining contract personnel. The coal produced by Solid Energy plays a significant part in the e

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    ‘We’re Metallurgists, not Magicians!’

    By E McLean

    The decision making check-list and hierarchy of information for process and plant design is generally wide-ranging and complex. The nature of grades, mineralisation and ore types in an ore body, its

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Impact of Classification on the Energy Efficiency of Grinding Circuits - The Hidden Opportunity

    By W Valery, A Jankovic

    A growing demand within the minerals industry for sustainable development and the introduction of carbon taxes have resulted in a significant focus on improving the energy efficiency of comminution ci

    Oct 29, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Magnesia from Magnesite by Calcination/Carbonic Acid Leaching: Solubility of Magnesium and Iron

    By Moorrees C, Everson P

    A detailed examination of carbonic acid leaching of crude iron-containing magnesia derived from Savage River magnesite shows that the rate and extent of magnesium and iron dissolution are affected by

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Chamfered backs to improve open stope stability in poor ground conditions

    By G Capes

    A novel open stope design approach is presented that delivered improved performance in a mining area with poor ground conditions at the Olympic Dam mine. During 2019, a large open stope had an unplann

    Mar 29, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Direct observation of the fayalite slag formation behaviour from large SiO2 grains

    By S Natsui, Y Goto, S Kawanishi, J Takahashi, H Nogami

    The demand for copper increases yearly, and further improvements in copper smelting efficiency using flash furnaces are required. This study was conducted to understand and promote the interfacial rea

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Increased drilling accuracy leads to significant improvement in ore recovery and dilution

    By R Stimpson, B Johnson, B Hesse

    During a period of twelve months between FY18-19, a series of trials were conducted to compare production drilling accuracy using two different methodologies, and the subsequent impact this had on sto

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Speculations on the Origin and Formation of the Diamond with Especial Reference to its Formation and Position at Bingara, N.S.W.

    The latest outcome of science is that aII bodies are composed of vibrating atoms or molecules. In almost all mineral bodies when changing from the gaseous or liquid condition to the solid, if the vibr

  • AUSIMM
    Developing and Implementing Ore-Specific Targets for the Rosebery Concentrator

    Production targets are the basis for almost every decision made by operations personnel in the daily operation of a concentrator. It is the production targets that determine how the plant is operated

    Oct 29, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Platinum Mining and Sustainability - Understanding the Environmental Costs of Future Technologies

    By G M. Mudd

    The growing popularity of platinum and platinum group metals (or PGMs, including palladium, rhodium and others) for a wide range of applications leads to some interesting issues for mining and sustain

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Prediction of Yttrium, Lanthanum, Cerium and Neodymium Leaching Recovery from Apatite Concentrate Using Artificial Neural Networks

    By A H. Bagherieh, S Mesroghli, H Jorjani, S Chehreh Chelgani

    The rare earth elements (REEs) assay and recovery in leaching processes is being determined using expensive analytical methods, ICP-AES, and ICP-MS. This paper presents a neural network model to predi

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Simulation study on crucial parameters of long-compressive and shortsuction ventilation in large section roadway excavation of LongWangGou coalmine

    By H Wen

    LongWangGou coalmine auxiliary inclined shaft heading face has a large section, fast heading speed, and large dust production. The problems of high concentration and wide distribution of dust in the r

    Oct 12, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Comparative Studies on Balls Versus Spheroidal Tetrahedrons Working Media to Ore Grinding in an Industrial Drum Mill

    Comparative Studies on Balls Versus Spheroidal Tetrahedrons Working Media to Ore Grinding in an Industrial Drum Mill

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    The Use of Geotechnical Instrumentation to Optimise an Engineered Mine Design at Beaconsfield Gold Mine, Tasmania

    By P B. Hills, R J. Walton

    Geotechnical instrumentation has been implemented as a key step for monitoring and optimising an engineered mine design for managing seismicity at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine. Measurements of displacem

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Defining Sustainability Criteria in Project Design - A Case Study of the Olympic Dam Expansion

    By H Bateman, I Cawrse, G Carnes, S Cawrse

    In developing mineral resources, the focus typically centres on the management of identified social and environmental impacts and compliance with regulatory requirements. However, opportunities to pro

    Jan 1, 2009