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Development of a Taxonomy for Indexing Web-Based Mining Safety and Health ResearchTo solve the mining safety and health needs of the future, access to, and sharing of, timely and relevant information will be crucial. The next generation of the Web will provide tools (RDF, OWL, SPAR
Jan 1, 2008
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Integrated Maintenance Services at the Los Pelambres Mine in Chile - The Lessons Learnt and Best Practices Developed from a Long-Term Sustainable RelationshipBy L Avalos, F Melo Miranda, J Misle, M Ingwersen
"Los Pelambres, majority owned by the Chilean company Antofagasta Minerals, is one of the leading producers of copper and molybdenum in the country. It is located high in Andes Mountains, over 3000 me
Jul 15, 2013
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Predicting Variations in Mill FeedBy P McCarthy
The relatively new field of geo-metallurgy promises to improve the predictability of mill feed quality and enhance processing outcomes. However, it is subject to the same limitations as the prediction
Aug 8, 2011
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Australia’s hydrogen export in the form of embedded mineral derivativesBy R Daiyan, G Burge, M Haider Ali Khan
Australia’s mineral and metal exports have a substantial carbon footprint, twice that of its domestic emissions, mainly due to fossil-fuel-dependent downstream processes like processing into secondary
Sep 1, 2024
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Improving the Reliability of Machines and Systems Used in the Production Processes, Automation and Control Technologies.British Coal has made a practical progressive approach to improving the reliability of its mining equipment. Reliability must be addressed at the specification stage but does not end there and routine
Jan 1, 1991
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The Direct Outokumpu Nickel Smelting (DON) Process and the Harjavalta ExpansionBy MattelmSki M
Outokumpu Harjavalta Metals Oy has been producing nickel since 1962, based on conventional flash smelting technology followed by electrowinning of nickel. In the 1980s, a research project was initia
Jan 1, 1996
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Integrated Photogrammetry and Discrete Fracture Network Modelling for Improved Rock Mass Characterisation and Engineering DesignBy S F. Rogers, P W. Booth
Digital photogrammetry is revolutionising the task of geotechnical mapping of jointed rock masses and has greatly increased in popularity and sophistication in recent years. Modern commercially availa
Sep 17, 2014
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Mining through Sandfill Using Spiling BarsBy D Carroll
Mining of the zinc, lead and silver deposit at the Broken Hill Southern Operations site has been occurring for over 100 years. As a result of this, a significant amount of high-grade ore is now taken
Nov 5, 2014
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Transfer Function – New Method to Accurately Predict Resonant Frequencies of a HighwallBy R Osterman
As mining companies have to go deeper in search of ore and coal, the importance of protecting the highwall increases. Wall fatigue also increases with importance of the long life expectancy of a highw
Aug 24, 2015
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Designing and Operating Backfill Systems on a South African Gold MineFor effective backfilling, a system with the 13 features covered under the section: effective backfill systems, is required. Effective backfilling cannot be done with systems that are badly designed,
Jan 1, 1998
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IsaMill - The Crossover from Ultrafine to Coarse GrindingBy B D. Burford
High intensity stirred milling using the IsaMill has been the enabling technology for many projects by transforming the economics of fine grinding and simplifying circuit design. IsaMill grinding tech
Jan 1, 2006
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Geoscience 2033 – a vision for mineral exploration in ten yearsBy C Itotoh, K O’Halloran, L Karlson
Global methods used to explore for minerals have progressed relatively slowly since the development of the first diamond core drill in 1863. Since then, key developments such as wireline geophysics (1
Sep 18, 2023
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Immortality design of the allflux® upstream classifier in the iron ore industry – for a safe workplace and an economic, sustainable and highly efficient separation technologyBy M Steinberg, M Amarant
Upstream Classifier are well-known in the iron ore industry for at least 15 years. At present, more than 60 units are in operation in Western Australia. The advantage of this technology is their capab
Sep 18, 2023
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Can a Risk-Based Evaluation Provide a More Valuable Mine Design?By B Maybee
In underground mine planning, many potentially value-eroding decisions are made due to a lack of time and proper evaluation practices. The information required for mine planning decisions goes beyond
May 24, 2012
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El Teniente New Mine Level ProjectBy R Pozo, F Reyes
Codelco Chile is currently developing the El Teniente û New Mine Level Project (NMLP) in order to increase ore production by seeking to mine the ore deposit located under the current operational orebo
Jan 1, 2008
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Australia's Coal Industry - Where Will it be in the Year 2000?The Australian coal industry has undergone sevenfold growth over the last 30 years and since 1985 has been the world's largest coal exporter. Three quarters of Australia's coal production
Jan 1, 1988
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Economic recovery and upgrade of metals from middling and tailing streamsBy M Hourn, G Anderson, V Lawson, P Voigt, D Mallah
As mine head grades decline and orebodies become more complex, traditional mineral processing techniques and flow sheets to achieve saleable concentrate become more difficult to design and construct.
Sep 11, 2017
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HARP Modelling – A New Method of Representing Complex Stratigraphic DepositsBy P Odins
Traditionally, stratigraphic deposits have been represented by a large number of gridded surface and product analytical models, related to each other by naming convention. This approach, though suitab
Aug 22, 2011
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Towards a mining metaverse – spatial computing meets digital twins for remote operationsBy M Yahyaei, P Knights, M S. Kizil, J Qu
Digital Twins (DTs) are transforming business operations across many industries through their accurate representations of physical entities enabled by IoT technologies.
Sep 1, 2024
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Predictive Three-Dimensional Modelling of Nuggety Gold Orebodies, Sunrise Dam, Western AustraliaBy M J. Nugus, F Clark, E J. Hill, J T. Carswell, J S. Cleverley, N H. S Oliver
High-nugget gold orebodies are difficult to model in 3D because samples from diamond drill core are generally too small to provide reliable estimates of the gold content of the larger body of rock, an
Sep 26, 2013