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  • AUSIMM
    Simulation of the Effects of Inertisation of Fires on Mine Ventilation Systems

    By A M. Wala, H W. Wu

    A research project incorporating a number of mine site exercises to reduce the effects of fire incidents and possible consequent health and safety hazards has been undertaken focused on the applicatio

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Use of Anchored Gaskets in Segmented Bored Tunnels

    By A Roseman, T Gruber

    Traditional methods for installing gaskets for segmented bored tunnels have relied upon different bonding procedures with adhesives that carry a series of disadvantages to segment producers. Fixation

    Sep 17, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of BHP - Utah Coal Limited's Dragline Stripping Operations

    BHP-Utah Coal Limited operates 33 draglines of varying sizes in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland. The group's operations with draglines commenced in 1963 with the establishment of opencut

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    How to Get a Social Licence to Mine

    By J Lööw, M Nygren, E Segerstedt, L Abrahamsson

    The purpose of the paper is to discuss socially sustainable development in the mining industry and the communities surrounding the mines. The discussions are based on results from a prestudy and liter

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The synergistic interaction between hexanol and dithiophosphate at the air-water and galena-water interface

    By D Pienaar, B McFadzean, C T. O’Connor

    Collector and frother molecules in sulfide mineral flotation are thought to have separate roles in the flotation process, where the collector selectively hydrophobizes the mineral surface and the frot

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Wireless System for Monitoring Cave-back Propagation

    By S Steffen, S Talu, J Poulsen, G Watt, A van As, J S. Ooi

    The economic success of cave mining projects is significantly influenced by the secondary fragmentation size distribution of the caved orebody and making the fragmented ore available for extraction. I

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Rockfall Hazard Mitigation Best Practice

    By A Teen

    An open cast mine on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand proposes to remove up to 30 m of overburden to access an ore body neighbouring National Reserve land. Part of the conditions of t

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    A Fortunate Life – 45 Years in Heavy Minerals

    By A R. Sale

    This paper highlights two aspects of the mineral sands industry in Australia: the development of the industry from approximately 1870 through to 1980, and the author’s experience in the industry from

    Oct 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Geology Of The fitzpatrick Area North Broken Hill Limited, Broken Hill, NSW

    In August, 1975, North Broken Hill Limited announced that an intersection of 37.3 m of high grade lead-silver-zinc mineralisation, assaying 26.2 per cent Pb, 495 g/tonne Ag and 21.2 per cent Zn ha

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Lessons learned from attempts at minimising CO2 emissions in process metallurgy – pyrolysed secondary raw materials, bio-coke, and hydrogen as alternative reducing agents

    By F Diaz, G Hovestadt, B Friedrich, D Latacz, M Sommerfeld

    The metallurgical sector significantly contributes to the global carbon footprint and encounters the challenge of developing more sustainable production methods. This study introduces novel approaches

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Improving Energy Efficiency Across Mineral Processing and Smelting Operations - A New Approach

    By B L. Coulter, E Wightman, A S. Burrows

    With their commitment to sustainable development in an increasingly carbon-constrained world, many resources companies are focused on reducing the energy required to create their final products. In pa

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Capital Expenditure Modelling for Strategic Mine Scheduling

    By L Blackwell

    Strategic mine scheduling is an industry best practice for increasing the long-term value of mining operations and supply chains. The application of optimisation technology such as mixed integer linea

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Description of Effective Technology for Silver Recovery from Zinc Cakes Obtained as by-Product in Metallurgical Zinc Plants

    By Sataev IS, Malinovskaja ND, Otrozdenova LA, Knodov NV, Maximov II, Kuznetzou OK

    The technology of flotation recovery of silver from the residue of a zinc plant is described. The peculiarity of this technology is a preliminary pulp conditioning in sodium chloride solution in the

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    The Medium-Term Performance of Waste Rock Covers ù Rum Jungle as a Case Study

    By J Benn, V Kuznetsov, G Timms, A Spain

    Earthen covers are now widely used in the mining industry to control the generation rate and/or release rate of low quality drainage from piles of sulfidic minewastes. Covers are usually designed to r

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Extending Drill and Blast Limits - The Carpathia Experience

    Mining the Carpathia orebody at the Ardlethan tin mine in the late 1970s involved an innovative approach to underground mining which stretched the limits of drilling and blasting techniques. Holes of

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Developing Assessment Methods and Remediation Protocols for New Zealand Sites Impacted by Acid Mine Drainage

    By A Black, A de Jo, J Cavanagh, J Harding

    Acidic and metal-rich waters have been discharging from Sullivan Mine, West Coast, New Zealand since the closure of the mine during the early- 1990s. This has resulted in a decrease in pH from a backg

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    A Cost Comparison between Empirical and Engineered Support and Reinforcement Designs for Tunnels in a Low Stress Environment

    By L Nienaber

    Mines, after becoming operational, often retain the same support and reinforcement designs developed in the feasibility study. These designs are conceived from limited drilling data and regional exper

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Reduction of Mechanical Entrainment by Polymer Depressants

    By Y Peng, D Wannas

    In the fine particle flotation technologies being developed today the fine hydrophilic (gangue) particles are usually well dispersed. These highly dispersed fine particles can be recovered into the fl

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Optimising the Long Term Profit base for Consolidated Rutile Limited

    Consolidated Rutile Limited (CRL) was one of the best performing mining stocks of the turbulent 1980s, having a very high payout of franked dividends. In contrast to some other mining groups, it was

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    Screen Media Aperture Size Measurement Using MetsoÆs Screen Tracker

    By G van Niekerk, M Wortley

    Screening is a critical part of many mineral processing circuits and keeping the aperture of the screening media within specification is vital to ensure efficient performance of the processing plant.

    Sep 26, 2011