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Reverse stoping using wireless initiation at CSA MineBy B Small
CSA Mine, named after the nationalities of the mines first owners being Cornish, Scottish, Australian, is one of Australia’s deepest and highest-grade copper mines. A combination of the modified Avoca
Mar 29, 2023
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Some Simple Graphical Methods for Reliability Analysis in MinesBy Granholm S
The current emphasis within the mining industry to reduce the cost of production has stimulated interest in the fields of maintenance and operational reliability of capital intensive mining equipment.
Jan 1, 1991
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Recovery of Iron Ore Fines and Ultrafines from Tailings by Using Wet High-intensity Magnetic Separation – JONES WHIMSBy M Gerards, M Steinberg, T Graham
The quality and quantity of Australia’s secondary deposits, which include tailings streams and tailings dams, are higher than most countries’ primary deposits. In addition, these secondary deposits ha
Jul 13, 2015
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Conjunctive Use of Water Supply Modelling in the Evaluation of Future Performance of a Planned Off-Stream Storage for the North Bowen Coal BasinBy A Jha, R Merz
The substantial growth in world demand for Queensland coking coal has seen a number of new coal mine developments in the Bowen Basin in recent times. The Bowen-Broken Water Supply Scheme (BBWSS) is pr
Jan 1, 2006
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New reagents for beneficiation of lithium oresBy T Walsh, S R. Mudnuru
The development of lithium-ion batteries, coupled with the global trend towards electrification of transportation, has led to a dramatic increase in the demand for lithium. The production of lithium f
Aug 24, 2022
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Stope Filling with Thickened Classified Flotation TailingsBy Yates C, Gillie E. W, Finucane K. J
During the year 1940 a complete investigation was made of the whole of the stoping operations throughout the Great Boulder Mine and, as a result, it was decided to convert some of the existing shrinka
Jan 1, 1945
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Computer Modelling in the Solution of Continuous Miner Heading Ventilation ProblemsBy Meyer C. F
The increasing use of continuous miners in the extraction of high coal seams has amplified the need for enhanced ventilation systems in the headings. Owing to larger face dimensions and higher produ
Jan 1, 1995
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The Central Eyre Iron Project – Process Selection and DesignBy D Connelly
The Iron Road Limited Central Eyre Iron Project (CEIP) area, located on the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia, covers extensive Archaean iron formations that occur as coarse-grained magnetite bearing
Jul 11, 2011
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Advancing Coal Mine Ventilation into the Twenty First Century with High Productivity Mining SystemsThe Australian mining industry can expect to be working internationally competitive high quality coal mines during the twenty-first century. Cost efficient mining methods such as high productivity
Jan 1, 1988
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Episulphide-Based Reagent for Zinc Sulphide Flotation Without Copper SulphateResults of laboratory studies on the flotation of marmatite (zinc sulphide) with new reagents, which were developed to avoid the use of copper sulphate, are presented.Episulphides were chosen as the b
Jan 1, 1974
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Which Way is the Wind Blowing Today? A Control Strategy Which Considers Meteorological Effects on Tunnel VentilationBy D J. Gray
The 4 km long Huguenot Toll Tunnel in the Western Cape region of South Africa celebrated its tenth anniversary on 18 March 1998. At present a single (South) bore with bi-directional traffic flow is op
Jan 1, 1999
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Panel Caving Experiences and Macrotrench (Macrozanja) - An Alternative Exploitation Method at the El Teniente Mine, Codelco, ChileBy P Tobar
The development plan (long-term plan) of El Teniente Mine, Codelco-Chile, includes 100 per cent primary ore, located at increasing depths, which may involve several difficulties related to the applica
Jan 1, 2000
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The Practical Design of a Hydraulic HoistThe intention of this work was to con struct a machine on a pilot scale which could hoist a mixture of ore and water through a height of 300 metres and to operate the mach- ine to determine the para
Jan 1, 1973
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Case Studies Using Slurries and Stable Slurries with Unconventional Binders as Backfill Materials in Deep Hard Rock Tabular MinesBy R M. Smart, A T. Harrison
Backfill systems using unconventional cementitious binders have been successfully used in relatively deep and hard rock tabular mines for longwall, scattered stoping and shaft pillar removals. Two unc
Jan 1, 1998
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Electron Microprobe Mapping ù A Diagnostic Tool for Ilmenite CharacterisationBy C MacRae, N Wilson
CSIRO Minerals has recently developed an electron microprobe (EMP) based imaging (or mapping) method for characterising ilmenite concentrates. The method requires an electron microprobe analyser to co
Jan 1, 2001
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Peperite, Pumice and Perlite in Submarine Volcanic Successions: Implications for VHMS MineralisationBy K Orth
The volcanic successions that host massive sulphide deposits are diverse in composition, facies types and facies relationships. They also show a variety of spatial and temporal relationships to minera
Jan 1, 1999
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Smelting Practice at Mount MorganBy Hennessy F. L
IntroductionEvolution of the Present SmelterRoastingFiringHearth SlopeDust HandlingFurnace DetailsSmeltingFurnaceFeed DeliveryPulverised Coal FiringWaste Heat BoilersDust HandlingAir PreheaterReverber
Jan 1, 1952
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Intensity quantification of coal and rock burst risk – a reviewBy C Zhang, I Canbulat, G Fan, D Zhang, C Wang
A clear understanding of the intensity of coal and rock burst is the basis for future research on burst mechanism and control. There has been a wide variety in the description of coal and rock burst d
Nov 30, 2018
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Challenges for the Mining Industry and the Opportunities for New LeadersThis paper has been prepared to challenge the thinking of new leaders entering the mining industry in two areas. First, what is the worldÆs perception of mining and what does this mean to those enteri
Jan 1, 2004
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Physical and Technical Evaluation of Possibility Using Low-density Explosives in Smooth BlastingBy I Y. Maslov, S A. Gorinov
It was demonstrated that the stable propagation of the explosive process is possible in low-density emulsion explosives (EEs) obtained through mixing of emulsion with a significant amount of expanded
Aug 24, 2015