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  • AUSIMM
    "The Biogeometallurgical Approach – the Information We Need to Increase the Sustainability of Mining"

    By B Dold

    "Mining has still today high potential for improvement in the exploitation efficiency. Especially low-grade ores have very low recoveries. In Cu bioleaching operations from porphyry copper deposits ex

    Jun 15, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Monorail Technology - A Rapid and Cost-Effective Method of Decline Development

    By B Besa

    Australia is a world leader in the design and operation of mines accessed by the decline method. Literature indicates that a number of metalliferous underground mines using the decline system are also

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Comparative Study of Iron Ore Characterisation by Optical Image Analysis and QEMSCANTM

    By E Donskoi

    In order to develop downstream processing routines for iron ore and to understand the behaviour of the ore during such processing, extensive mineralogical characterisation is required. To determine mi

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Mining Education ù Driven by Global Impacts

    By P J. McCarthy

    Globalisation and consolidation is resulting in the mining industry coming to be dominated by a small number of very large companies seeking to lever assets and knowledge to create wealth. As an impor

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    The design and implementation of the Kibali gold mine off-shaft development

    By T Peters

    The Kibali Gold Mine is currently comprised of several open pits, a 3.5 Mtpa underground mine and a 7.5 Mtpa processing plant. Development of the underground operation commenced in December 2012, with

    Mar 29, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Application of steel bollards for managing the hazards associated with open stopes, Waihi Underground Operations

    By C E. Gawith

    The Waihi underground mining operation currently mines epithermal veins ranging from two metres up to ten metres in width using a ‘Modified Avoca’ stoping method. This method consists of longhole benc

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Dredging fine tailings

    By S H. Burgmans, B Anderson

    This paper aims to define the specific challenges relating to dredging fine tailings from an above ground storage facility for transferral to a mined-out pit. In addition, it compares dredging and min

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Gas Analysis - Linking the Laboratory with Reality

    By D Cliff

    Despite advances in technology, the Australian underground coal mining industry continues to have incidents involving spontaneous combustion. Managing these incidents relies heavily on understanding t

    Jul 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    2020 Vision ù The Manager of the 21st Century

    By E Hondros

    Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA) commissioned The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to undertake a study into how the role of AustraliaÆs senior managers is likely to change between now and

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    A Paradigm Shift in Underground Raisebore Reamer Removal

    By P Viljoen, A Holland, C Parken

    In the raisebore industry, there are two known methods of removing large diameter reamer heads once the reaming of an underground shaft is complete: 1. Lower the reamer head to the base of the shaft a

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Managing the Giant – A Mine Geologist’s Perspective to the Mining of the Olympic Dam Deposit

    By M K. Kapo, S C. Nzama

    The success of a mining operation depends on the quality of data used in decision-making processes and the people involved in making operational decisions. At Olympic Dam, mine geologists form an inte

    Aug 18, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Hot water management at PT Nusa Halmahera Minerals’ Toguraci Mine

    By J Isles, S King, A Valenza, R Lawolo, J Evert

    PT Nusa Halmahera Minerals (PT NHM) is an Indonesian joint venture company owned by a subsidiary of Newcrest Mining Limited (75 per cent) and PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) (25 per cent). PT NHM operates

    Oct 16, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Distribution of Alteration and Mineralisation in Northern Carlin Trend Gold Deposits, Nevada

    A series of petrological studies were carried out on the characteristics of alteration and mineralisation in mainly structural-controlled (Deep Star, Meikle, Deep Post) and predominantly lithological-

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Mining and Health in Development - An Inventory of Global Resource Industry Health Initiatives in Developing Countries

    By J Harris, P Kirsch, R LaBouchardiere

    æMining + Health in DevelopmentÆ is a project funded by the International Mining for Development Centre (IM4DC, 2012) to develop a centralised database of corporate sustainability initiatives for mana

    Nov 20, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Sampling for the percentage moisture in the iron ore industry

    By M Fritz, B Ziegelaar

    "For moisture samples, the International Standard for iron ore sampling states the following: Moisture samples shall be processed as soon as possible and test portions weighed immediately. If this

    May 9, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Go with the flow – managing hydrogeological staff turnover at Ernest Henry mine

    By C Hawtin, B Miller, D Ashton

    Ernest Henry mine (EHM) is an Iron oxide copper-gold sublevel cave mine located 30 minutes north of Cloncurry in North-West Queensland. The underground mine lies beneath open pit excavations, which we

    Sep 20, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    CIP ù Who Needs It? A Combination Circuit of Gravity, Flotation and Intensive Leach May Provide the Optimal Environmental and Cost Outcome for Gold Plants ù Stage II ù Results

    By A McCallum, J Abols, G Patrick, G Johansen

    The authors challenge the traditional thinking that whole ore cyanidation followed by Carbon in Pulp (CIP) or Carbon in Leach (CIL) should be applied as a standard process in the majority of gold proc

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Optimisation of the Advanced Automation System at Inmet Mining's PyhSsalmi Mine, Finland

    Optimisation of the Advanced Automation System at Inmet Mining's PyhSsalmi Mine, Finland

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Cost Effective Concentrator Design

    By G Lane

    This paper discusses the factors that contribute to the cost effective design of a concentrator. Concentrator design and layout outcomes are functions of the team (engineer’s and owner’s) participati

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Pre-Feasibility Study – Big Choices, Little Time

    By D J. Logan, J Jackson

    "As of 1 December 2014, the 2012 edition of the JORC Code requires Ore Reserves to be defined by studies at the pre-feasibility or feasibility level. This paper examines how the pathway for most minin

    Mar 8, 2016