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New Zealand Gold Potential - Using Mineral Prospectivity Modelling to Evaluate Gold-Bearing Mineral Systems in an Underexplored Country
By K Peters, C McKenzie
New Zealand has an established history of gold production beginning with the gold rushes of the 19th century in the Coromandel, Nelson/Marlborough, West Coast and Otago regions. Despite this, the numb
Sep 26, 2013
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Managing Geological Intellectual Property and Competitive Advantage - Newcrest Mining LimitedÆs Experience
By M Berry, F MacCorquodale
The ownership, management and employment structures operating in the Australian minerals industry have dynamically evolved during the last 30 years. One of the most dramatic changes, from an explorati
Sep 26, 2013
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Is there Gold that We do not Recognise?
By J S. J van Deventer
"Conventional wisdom is that gold not assayable is not recoverable or does not exist. There has been no formal study on the possibility that gold assays using advanced spectroscopy such as mass spectr
Sep 26, 2013
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Oxygenation System Upgrades and Leach Plant Performance Improvements at Morila Gold Mine - 2009 to 2012
By D M. Verster, P L. Gillot, A Kone
Randgold ResourcesÆ MorilaÆs gold leach plant is subjected to uncommon æoxygen stressesÆ. Feed ores exhibit very high oxygen demands, primarily caused by iron sulfides. In addition, ore oxygen demand
Sep 26, 2013
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Possible Future Applications of Biotechnologies in the Gold Industry - A Prospective Approach
By C M. Zammit, N Cook, F Reith, C L. Ciobanu, J Brugger
The role of biological agents in the gold mining industry is currently limited to the use of microorganisms in bioleaching and bioremediation. However, there is a variety of possibilities in which bio
Sep 26, 2013
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A Decade of Gravity Gold Recovery
By A Bax, G Wardell-Johnson, W P. Staunton, J McGrath, J J. Eksteen
Since 2001, the AMIRA P420 gold processing technology project series has been studying the recovery of gold using gravity devices, with particular emphasis on the centrifugal units, Knelson and Falcon
Sep 26, 2013
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Tropicana Gold Mine - Mitigating the Challenges of a Mining Start-up
By S Lloyd, J Chow, S Fitzpatrick, D Greenup
The Tropicana deposit was discovered in 2005 after AngloGold Ashanti followed up an unexplained gold-in-soil anomaly. Discovered in a remote, barely-explored area of Western Australia not previously t
Sep 26, 2013
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Innovative Systems for ARD Prevention and Mine Closure
By Jerry Rowe
There are numerous examples of historic and recent mines that have no closure system or have poorly designed closure systems. These mines may contaminate water resources, land resources and cause sign
Sep 21, 2013
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Equipment adds efficiency, safety to cross passage work
From a vast army of workers to gargantuan machines to immense volumes of material being moved, almost everything about the Port of Miami Tunnel (POMT) project points to tunneling on a massive scale. A
Sep 1, 2013
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Large diameter tunneling in Seattle is a sign of things to come
By Christopher Bambridge
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is constructing a new tunneled route under Seattle to replace the existing State Route 99, Alaskan Way Viaduct (AWV), which follows the histor
Sep 1, 2013
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Use of high-efficiency electrical submersible pumps for mine dewatering
By K. Lang
The use of high-efficiency electrical submersible pumps (ESPs) for large scale, open pit mine dewatering operations provides a good example of how technology, products and services from the oil and ga
Sep 1, 2013
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Impact of face ventilation and nitrogen inertization on hazardous gas distribution in bleederless longwall gobs
By J. Marts
Underground longwall coal mining sections are operated as sealed gobs if the coal is prone to spontaneous combustion. Sealing along the gate roads during longwall face retreat limits the flow of fresh
Sep 1, 2013
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Disposición simultánea de relaves desaguados en superficie y en minado subterráneo aplicados en el Perú
By Emmanuel Pornillos
Dado que en el Perú, la actividad minera utiliza el minado subterráneo para la explotación de minerales, se revalúa el uso de estos en pasta cementada para el relleno de las labores subterráneas, así
Sep 1, 2013
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Ground freezing resolves complex challenges ahead of SEM tunneling
By Gregory T. Ziegler
A complex soil profile and high water table, together with a below-grade active subway tunnel, an above-ground elevated railway line, and the heavily travelled Northern Boulevard all passing above the
Sep 1, 2013
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Helmet-Cam: tool for assessing miners' respirable dust exposure
By A. B. Cecala
Video technology coupled with datalogging exposure monitors have been used to evaluate worker exposure to different types of contaminants. However, previous application of this technology used a stati
Sep 1, 2013
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Effect of CaO-FexOy-Al2O3-SiO2 Oxide System on the Reduction of Carbon Composite Pellets
By H Park, V Sahajwalla
"Due to the increasing amount of gangues in iron ores, a beneficiation process is required more as a preliminary step for ironmaking process. However, mechanical grinding and washing of iron ore needs
Aug 12, 2013
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ArriumÆs Iron Baron Hematite Beneficiation Plant - A Success from Start to Finish
By M Bannear, C Stanton
Since 2008, Arrium has been developing and commissioning a new low-grade hematite ore benefication plant (or OBP) at its Iron Baron mine site.The Iron Baron mine, which was closed in the 1990s, could
Aug 12, 2013
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Lessons from the S11D Truckless Mining Project
By T Atchison
The Vale Ferro Carajßs S11D project in northern Brazil is based on the movement of unprecedented volumes of waste and ore for mobile in-pit crushing and conveying or ætrucklessÆ systems. In peak years
Aug 12, 2013
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Managing Challenges Faced in the Brownfield Commissioning of an Ultra-Fine Hematite Processing Circuit at ArriumÆs Iron Duke Ore Beneficiation Plant
By E Selvapandian, R Barr
Arrium (previously OneSteel) initiated a desktop study into the performance of its hematite ore beneficiation plant in early 2010. The beneficiation plant utilises jig concentrators and spirals to upg
Aug 12, 2013
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Mineralogy of New Australian X-ray Fluorescence Standards
By K Knorr, S Birch
The mineralogy of new certified-reference-materials (CRM) for X-ray fluorescence from Western Australia (ASCRM 030 to 035) was analysed by X-ray diffraction using the BRUKER energy dispersive one-dime
Aug 12, 2013