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  • AUSIMM
    Improvement strategies for accurate underground drilling and blasting effectiveness at the Barrick Kibali Gold Mine

    By F M. Senda

    This paper highlights strategies used at the Barrick operated Kibali Gold Mine (KGM) to improve the drilling accuracy and blasting effectiveness for longhole open stoping. The mine currently uses Solo

    Mar 29, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Profitable and Productive Partnerships ù Optimising Coal Recovery in Close Proximity to the Hunter River

    By D Stacey, J Matthews

    Hunter Valley Operations in partnership with Orica Explosives designed a process to optimise coal extraction at depths greater than 65 m below the Hunter River in a safe and cost effective manner. The

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Production Drill and Blast Practices at Ridgeway Gold Mine

    Newcrest Mining Limited (NML) owns and manages the Ridgeway Gold Mine (RGM) located outside Orange in the state of New South Wales. RGM is a new underground sublevel caving (SLC) operation that is ram

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    The role of fleet management in reducing carbon emissions from haul trucks

    By D Prior

    The Australian mining industry is a significant contributor to the nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and like any industry, it must make efforts to reduce these. Medium- and long-term strategie

    Jun 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Mentoring - Fostering Relationships to Enrich Decision-Making

    Mother Nature controls, technical professionals model and miners decide. Decisions to explore, mine and mill. Mine decisions, mine design, planning and scheduling are subject to the quality of models

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Life-of-mine Development and Production Scheduling Optimisation for Sublevel Cave Operations

    By G Chitombo, A Perryman, A D. Campbell, J White, B Hollis

    This paper describes the development and implementation of an optimisation tool developed as part of the Mass Mining Technology (MMT) Project. The tool, known as the SLC Schedule Optimiser, is capable

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    In-Pit Tailings – World’s Best Practice for Long-Term Management of Tailings

    By G M. Mudd

    Mine tailings represent one of the two largest sources of mine waste from the minerals industries (the other being waste rock). Given the problems of declining ore grades and growing production, taili

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Highwall Mining Trials at Callide Mine

    By Boyd G

    This paper describes the planning, analysis, design and operational experience of highwall mining based on auger drilling techniques applied to thick coal seams exposed in an opencut highwall. Bein

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    Distribution of Pb, Zn, Fe, As, Sn, Sb, Bi and Ni between oxide liquid and metal in the ‘CuO0.5’-CaO-AlO1.5 system in equilibrium with Cu metal at 1400°C

    By E Jak, G Khartcyzov, M Shevchenko

    The increasing complexity of ore resources and recycled materials in the feed of pyrometallurgical processes present a technical challenge to the metallurgical engineers working on maximising the reco

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Advancements in Condition Monitoring on Mill Drive Trains for Proactive Maintenance and Early Fault Detection Purposes

    By T Roesch, M Neurohr, S Stratton

    "Dwindling commodity prices are forcing today’s mining operations to increase output. Sometimes the solution is to upgrade the existing infrastructure; however, in most cases it has to be achieved wit

    Oct 10, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Phreatic uncertainty in the unsaturated zone of tailings storage facilities: an examination of two Australian case studies

    By E J. Coyle, L A. Millington

    Tailings storage facilities are geotechnically complicated structures that develop heterogeneous strength profiles and varied porewater conditions. The monitoring of porewater pressures is one of the

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Robust construction and quality assurance culture for tailings storage facilities – equally important as robust design and review practice

    By M Laxman, A Kundu

    After multiple tailings dam failures in recent times, the owner organisations have made increased efforts to step up the governance systems to industry best practise in the design, construction and op

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Separation of Pyrite and Arsenopyrite in a Gold Sulfide Concentrate

    By D E. G Connelly, K Y. Wong

    Gold at the Harbour Lights Mine (HLM), WA occurs principally in pyrite (Py) and arsenopyrite (AsPy) minerals rendering it inaccessible to direct cyanidation. Froth flotation produces a concentrate wit

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Unlocking Processing Potential by Empowering Our Operators

    By X Li, W McKeague, M S. Powell

    This paper explores the importance of operators in the overall efficiency of mineral processing plants. With the potential of future control configurations becoming more remote, it is time to review t

    Oct 29, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of the Applications of Tunnel Boring Machines in Mines

    By Q Gong, J Li, J Zhao, Y Zheng

    Excavation by tunnel boring machines (TBMs) offers many advantages over conventional excavation methods, in terms of safety level, working environment, advance rate and overall cost. While TBMs have b

    Sep 17, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Assessment of Environmental Quality Impacts Caused by Red Mud Storage Facilities in China

    By S Zheng, Y Zhang, Z Wen, S Ma

    Red mud (RM) is a solid waste product generated during alumina refinery process, and is usually stored in SFs (SFs) because it canÆt be disposed of easily. In this paper, environment degradation cause

    Jul 10, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Maximising the Output of a Surface Bulk Air Cooling Installation on a South African Mine

    By T Baard, A Pieters

    This paper deals with the design and implementation of a 17 MW (nominal) surface cooling installation at Impala Platinum No 14 shaft located in Rustenburg, North West Province, South Africa.The coolin

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Costerfield – a Narrow Vein Case Study

    By M McCarthy

    Over the last six years Mandalay Resources has increased production rates and improved safety outcomes at its Costerfield mine in Victoria, Australia. This mine is an underground operation utilising n

    Jun 22, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Assessing Uncertainty with Drill Hole Spacing Studies – Applications to Mineral Resources

    By H M. Parker, G Verly, T Postolski

    Assessing the uncertainty and risk in mineral resource estimation is required for best practice and is implied by the public reporting codes in the categorisation of mineral resources and reserves. On

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    High Energy Bulk Explosives and Mine to Mill Focus – the Mt Rawdon Story

    By D Morton, G Wallace

    "Evolution Mining is the sole owner of the Mt Rawdon open cut operation, located 75 km south-west of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia (Figure 1). It is a massive, volcanically hosted, low-grade gold

    Nov 15, 2016