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Formalised Blasting Rules: A Case-Specific ApproachBy D Nourry
Optimising the blast is a major issue in the blasting business. It generally means acting on the blasting pattern (drilling, charging, detonating) in order to get a given æresultÆ. This result may eit
Jan 1, 2001
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Continuous Monitoring Techniques for Environmental Control of Waste Water Discharge at Northern Territory Mine SitesBy Mine F. J, Woods P. H
The Top End of the Northern Territory lies in the monsoonal zone and receives rain during the November-April period. Initially, at the start of the wet season, rain storms are localised, but, follow
Jan 1, 1994
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Investigation of Shield Face Stability by Transparent Soil ModelsBy M Ahmed
Reliable face support pressure is necessary for shield driven tunnels in cohesionless soils to prevent excessive ground movements. This paper presents experimental work on stability of a tunnel face u
Mar 8, 2011
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Applications of Exhaust Steam Turbines to The Power Plants of Mines.The cost of power is an important matter to mining companies generally and this thought that the members of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, as well as the engineering and mining profes
Jan 1, 1911
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Social Viability of an Expanded Seafloor Exploration and Mining Industry in AustraliaBy N Boughen, P Ashworth, S Johns, C J. Yeats, A Littleboy
The ocean floor, often called the last frontier, is increasingly discussed in terms of its resource potential û from near shore building aggregate and placer deposits to massive sulfide orebodies in t
Jan 1, 2008
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Breccia Formation and It's Relation to Gold Mineralization at Mount Kasi, FijiThe Mount Kasi gold deposit in Vanua Levu represents an epithermal, high sulphur, gold-enargite system occurring within a volcanic caldera of Middle to Upper Miocene age. High level breccia pipes
Jan 1, 1987
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Copper-Molybdenum Concentrator Surveys Using Mineralogy and Process Benchmarking Tools to Improve Overall Plant PerformanceBy P Thompson, D Rose, S Yu, W Baum, R Zahn, D Meadows, G Hall
Opportunities to improve mill operations are often cited by mining companies and recognised in many concentrators spread throughout the world but are not always followed through. Copper-molybdenum con
Sep 1, 2014
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Surface-to-inseam (SIS) Drilling at Oaky Creek Coal Mine – SIS Design Aspects and Drilling EnvironmentBy E Corpuz, J Weissman, S Winter, R Evans
The surface-to-inseam (SIS) directional drilling technique has been utilised at Oaky Creek Coal for more than a decade to predrain both the Oaky No 1 and Oaky North mining areas. The cumulative drilli
Aug 31, 2015
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Sustainable Flood Management ù A Case StudyBy I F. Wood
Planning for flooding and assessment of flood impacts are important requirements for mining projects, as they are also for other types of development. With more intense development and concern from th
Jan 1, 2003
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Parametric assessment of tailings liquefaction and earthquake induced embankment deformations using FLACBy B Ghahreman‐Nejad, M Munro
Design of embankment dams often requires seismic analyses, or an assessment of earthquakeinduced ground and dam movements. There are a large number of cases where earthquakes have triggered sliding an
Jul 1, 2021
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Materials Handling at Olympic Dam Mine - Olympic Dam Aiming for æGoldÆWMC Limited, owner/operator of Olympic Dam, the worldÆs largest underground uranium mine and the fourth largest underground copper mine has now completed an expansion that has been classed as a benchm
Jan 1, 2000
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Improving Excavation Efficiency at the St Helena Tunnel Using Best Practice Drill and Blast TechniquesBy D Miller, M Dowling, R Domotor
"This paper is focused on blasting activities undertaken as part of the Pacific Highway Upgrade – Tintenbar to Ewingsdale – project (T2E). This is a ‘priority 1’ Pacific Highway road construction proj
Sep 17, 2014
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The Obuasi Gold Mine - A Mine Under ChangeBy S C. Goel
The Obuasi Mine in Ghana, West Africa is the largest producing gold mine in Africa, outside South Africa. The mine has changed from a mine producing from narrow vein, high grade quartz orebodies to a
Jan 1, 2000
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Resue or Split Face Firing - Trial Results from Hillgrove MineResue or split face firing has the potential to separate ore and waste rock into separate muck piles within a stope. Thus split face firing has the potential to reduce dilution of the ore stream to be
Aug 1, 2010
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Facilitating Continuous Expansion of a Bulk Materials Handling FacilityBy P Rourke
In this climate of increasing demand for commodities, it is becoming necessary to expand and optimise existing bulk material handling facilities in order to increase capacity to satisfy demand. Produc
Jan 1, 2005
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Improved forged grinding media performance with carbon content greater than 1.0%By R Bose, M Bovell, G Cheong
Grinding media is a major consumable in mineral processing and therefore decreasing costs associated with its consumption is regularly considered a key goal for the minerals processing industry. Grind
Aug 29, 2018
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Use of Petrex Fingerprint Soil Gas Geochemical Technique in Multiple Scale Geothermal Exploration A Case History at Okuaizu Geothermal Field, JapanBy Sakai S, Suga S, Bisque RE
Soil gases were collected on activated charcoal, analyzed by computerized mass spectrometry and treated with multivariate statistical pattern recognition to determine the diagnostic geochemical si
Jan 1, 1987
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Predicting the Effects of Ground Movements Associated with Soft Ground Tunnel Construction in Urban Areas ù A Procedure for Engineering EvaluationBy J P. Hsi
Recent increase in the development of underground space in urban areas in Australia has included soft ground tunnel construction. The ground movements associated with soft ground tunnel construction m
Jan 1, 1999
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Review of the Mobile Miner at Isa MineThe search for an efficient and economic machine to excavate hard rock continues. Development of the Robbins Mobile Miner commenced in 1983 with the formation of a joint venture between Mount Isa
Jan 1, 1988
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Filtration Test Work – Extracting the Whole Story for Studies and DesignBy G Bickert
Australia is currently developing and engineering a range of specialised processing options for rare earth (RE) (Lynas, 2011, Alkane, 2005), zirconia (Alkane, 2005), lithium (Galaxy Resources, 2008) a
Aug 8, 2011