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Admixture use in cemented rock fill
By B Roache, J O’Brien, M Gray
Admixture use in cement products is commonplace in the construction and mining industries. Many Australian mines have an operational concrete batch plant and stock hydration control and water reducing
Nov 29, 2022
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Blasting Near Mine Surface Infrastructure
By A J. Moore
Blasting operations in open cut mines results in airblast, ground vibration and rock movement with the potential for wild flyrock. In some mines there is a trend towards blasting closer to established
Nov 8, 2011
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Third World Mineral Development Strategies for Twenty First Century
By Adusumilli M. S, Subrahmanyam T. V, Rao V. D
Chance find of an economically important mineral on the sur- face and its exploitation without proper exploration work, has become the habit of humanity since the Bronze Age. The explora- tion and ex
Jan 1, 1988
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Mining Truck Operations in Association with Truch-Jig Apparatus
This paper describes a mine truck hauling process called "Truck Jigging" which is currently the subject of a process patent application.The investigation explores the production and cost adv
Jan 1, 1989
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Recent Developments and Investigations of D.M. Cyclone Coal Preparations at the BHP Port Kemble Washeries
By Nightingale R, Johnson B, Bensley C, Vince A, Keast-Jones R
In order to counter the massive increase in the level of near gravity material that would follow the reduction in dense-medium cyclone separation density at B.H.P. Slab and Plate Product Division&
Jan 1, 1987
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Advances in Regolith Research ù A CRC LEME Perspective
By R R. Anand
Recent research by CRC LEME from an Australian mineral exploration perspective, has focussed on regolith architecture and mechanisms of geochemical anomaly formation, within transported regolith. Meth
Jan 1, 2004
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Development of Effective Rehabilitation Protocols for Mineral Sands Mining in Virginia, USA
By W L. Daniels, C Stilson, C Zimmerman
Mineral sands mining for ilmenite, rutile and zircon has disturbed over 1000 ha of prime farmland in Virginia (USA) since 1997 and additional areas are likely to be disturbed in Virginia and North Car
Jul 10, 2012
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Steve and Fred would have been mates – a comminution design evolution story
By D David
Amongst those whose task it is to design tumbling mills and other comminution machines there is an almost religious divide between devotees of the Bond method and devotees of other methods developed i
Sep 11, 2017
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Iron RoadÆs Prediction of Magnetite Concentrate Production from the Central Eyre Iron Project
By P J. Marsh, P J. Bartsch, N J. Semler
Iron Road Limited is currently studying the feasibility of producing 20 Mt/a of high-grade (67 per cent Fe) magnetite concentrate from a 2.6 Bt resource (JORC) located at Warramboo on the central Eyre
Aug 12, 2013
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The Development of a Fan Range to Meet Increasingly Demanding Safety Criteria Inside Tunnels
By A G. Sheard
Fire safety requirements inside tunnels have become more demanding as tunnel designers consider the impact of potentially larger fires. Tunnel ventilation equipment is required to clear hot gases in t
Mar 8, 2011
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Unlocking the Value in Waste and Reducing Tailings – Magnetite Production at Ernest Henry Mining
By J Siliézar
The Ernest Henry Mine (EHM) is situated 38 km north-east of Cloncurry in the Mount Isa – Cloncurry mineral district of northwest Queensland. The EHM orebody is an iron oxide copper gold deposit with a
Jul 11, 2011
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Virtual Environment Training for Preshift Inspections of Haul Trucks to Improve Mining Safety
By D A. Bowman, S Schafrik
With the goal of reducing injuries and fatalities related to haul truck accidents, this research investigates technologies and intervention strategies for improving worker training using a virtual env
Jan 1, 2008
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Life-of-Mine Ventilation System Upgrade at Springvale Colliery - A Case Study
By B Smith, R Gelson
Springvale Colliery is an underground longwall mine situated approximately 10 km north-west of Lithgow in the western coalfields of New South Wales. Following a full-scale review of the mineÆs ventila
Jul 1, 2013
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Use of Geometallurgy to Predict Tailings Leach Acid Consumption at Olympic Dam
By E Macmillan
For any processing plant there will be deleterious elements or minerals which affect production or quality, and a strategy to predict their occurrence and mitigate their impact is required. An early o
Sep 5, 2011
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Shifting the comminution workload from the primary ball mill to TowerMill circuit
By H Ishikawa, R Halomoan, S Palaniandy
The Karara iron ore project is a magnetite operation consist of open pit mining and concentrator to produce high-grade magnetite concentrate. The concentrator has adopted three stages of comminution,
Aug 29, 2018
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The evolution of seismicity and ground control measures at Ernest Henry Mine
By H Esterhuizen
The Ernest Henry Mine (EHM) in Queensland, Australia is a Sub-level Caving operation that started production below the previously mined open pit at a depth of 535m. Current Production mining has progr
Nov 30, 2018
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Using Best Practice Operations as a Strategy for Attracting and Retaining Professional People
By T Trott, G Lumley
"The mining industry suffers from a shortage of professional and other workers. Research and analysis has demonstrated a close correlation between high performance in productivity, maintenance and saf
Nov 20, 2012
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Project Selection and Process Development for Mining Juniors
By L Lorenzen, H Muller
"Every year a large number of projects are evaluated by small listed and unlisted mining companies that are hoping to find the ideal project, which will catapult them from a mining junior status to th
May 24, 2012
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Continuous Carbon Concentration Measurement at Newmont Boddington Gold
By C McCamley
"The requisite for maintaining optimal carbon concentration levels in a carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit is of paramount importance in the prevention of gold losses. The process’s ability to recover gold
Oct 10, 2016
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Benefits of Advanced Technology in Underground Mining
By M Edhammer
In 2007, Atlas Copco introduced an integrated tunnel scanner/profiler. The tunnel scanner, which is integrated into the control system, is mounted on the drill rigs, and replaces the previous variants
Mar 21, 2011