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  • AUSIMM
    Formalised Blasting Rules: A Case-Specific Approach

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Continuous Monitoring Techniques for Environmental Control of Waste Water Discharge at Northern Territory Mine Sites

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Investigation of Shield Face Stability by Transparent Soil Models

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    Social Viability of an Expanded Seafloor Exploration and Mining Industry in Australia

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Breccia Formation and It's Relation to Gold Mineralization at Mount Kasi, Fiji

    The 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

  • AUSIMM
    Copper-Molybdenum Concentrator Surveys Using Mineralogy and Process Benchmarking Tools to Improve Overall Plant Performance

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Surface-to-inseam (SIS) Drilling at Oaky Creek Coal Mine – SIS Design Aspects and Drilling Environment

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Sustainable Flood Management ù A Case Study

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Parametric assessment of tailings liquefaction and earthquake induced embankment deformations using FLAC

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Materials Handling at Olympic Dam Mine - Olympic Dam Aiming for æGoldÆ

    WMC 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

  • AUSIMM
    Improving Excavation Efficiency at the St Helena Tunnel Using Best Practice Drill and Blast Techniques

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    The Obuasi Gold Mine - A Mine Under Change

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Resue or Split Face Firing - Trial Results from Hillgrove Mine

    Resue 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

  • AUSIMM
    Facilitating Continuous Expansion of a Bulk Materials Handling Facility

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    Use of Petrex Fingerprint Soil Gas Geochemical Technique in Multiple Scale Geothermal Exploration A Case History at Okuaizu Geothermal Field, Japan

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Predicting the Effects of Ground Movements Associated with Soft Ground Tunnel Construction in Urban Areas ù A Procedure for Engineering Evaluation

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Review of the Mobile Miner at Isa Mine

    The 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

  • AUSIMM
    Filtration Test Work – Extracting the Whole Story for Studies and Design

    By 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