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  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • IIMP
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • IIMP
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    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