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  • AUSIMM
    Dewatering the Bowmans Trial Pit

    By Waterhouse J. D, Harris B. M

    This paper briefly describes the construction in 1979/80 of a 70m deep trial open pit coal mine near Bowmans S.A. and describes more fully the hydrogeological aspects of the exercise. The primary p

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AUSIMM
    The Upgrading of the Zinc-Lead Smelter of Commonwealth Smelting Ltd for the 1990Æs

    The Imperial Smelting Process (ISP) for the simultaneous smelting of zinc and lead was developed at Avonmouth from the 1930's with activity intensifying in the late 1940's/early 1950'

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    Risk Elements Characteristics of Mining Investments

    The exploration and mining risks are investigated and compared to the risks of smelting, secondary processing and other normal industrial activities. This study concentrates on the risk before, or

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    Recent Port Kembla experience with iron ore use – sintering and blast furnace

    By S Chew, A Bennett, N Di Giorgio, B Osborne

    After relining one of two blast furnaces and enlarging its sinter plant in 2009, BlueScope radically restructured its Port Kembla steelworks operation in 2011, shutting a blast furnace and halving its

    Jul 24, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Process and Engineering Improvements Increase Production at Hamersley Iron's Pellet Plant

    By Lynch K. S, Street R. P

    Hamersley Iron's pellet plant at Dampier involves ore drying, dry grind- ing in ball mills, disc balling and, indurating by use of the straight grate system. After five years of operation, the

    Jan 1, 1973

  • AUSIMM
    Wellington Gold (A Brief Review of the Gold Mining History of the Wellington District, New Zealand)

    Alluvial gold was found in the Terawhiti area, West of Wellington, in the 1850s. This led to the discovery of reef gold. Periods of minor 'gold fever', company flotations, and mining activit

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    The Effect of Clearance Angle on Penetration Rate of Rotary-Drag Bits

    In conjunction with a study on wear of drag bits the effect of clearance angle on penetration rate was studied.Increases in clearance angle from 24 1/2 up to 30° gave an increase in penetration r

    Jan 1, 1969

  • AUSIMM
    Hdyrocyclone Research and Development at Bougainville Copper Limited

    The developments in hydrocyclone classification in the milling circuit at Bougainville Copper Limited are discussed. A major change in cyclone size and improve- ments in operating conditions have be

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AUSIMM
    Horizontal Drilling Technology for Coal Seam Methane Recovery

    By Bockhorst R. W, Christopher D. A

    Over the past fifteen years, horizontal drilling in coal seams for advance degasification has become an established practice in the United States of America. Consolidation Coal Company pioneered t

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    Open Forum

    McLeod: Without getting into the argument as to how well we can know our resource levels specifically in the immediate short term, I would like to make one or two points about the future, and perhaps

    Jan 1, 1975

  • AUSIMM
    Direct observation of the fayalite slag formation behaviour from large SiO2 grains

    By S Natsui, Y Goto, S Kawanishi, J Takahashi, H Nogami

    The demand for copper increases yearly, and further improvements in copper smelting efficiency using flash furnaces are required. This study was conducted to understand and promote the interfacial rea

    Jun 19, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    A System Approach to Mine Waste Remediation, the Kristineberg Mine, Northern Sweden

    By H Holmstr÷m, A Widerlund, M Lindvall

    At the Kristineberg mine in northern Sweden sulfide-rich, poorly buffered tailings have been deposited in five impoundments located along a valley. The tailings area has been remediated by applying a

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Bio-Mineral Processing - Its Potential to Revolutionise the Industry

    Bacteria can play a key role in the processing of 'difficult' ores. Bioleaching opens the way to potentially extract copper from vast amounts of otherwise hard to process refractory low-grad

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Presidential Address, 1974 Ore to Metal - The Education Needs

    As we look back through the Proceedings of our Institute, we find few papers dealing directly with education and recruitment. Apart from papers prepared in the earlier decades of this century, there w

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AUSIMM
    Review of Australian Longwall Panel Ventilation Practices

    By S Gillies, H W. Wu

    A study has been undertaken into mine ventilation systems currently in use within Australian modern coal longwall (LW) extraction mines. It reviews systems and discusses evolving changes being adopted

    Jul 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Consolidation and shear strength testing and stability analysis of coal mine spoil degraded to mud

    By L Bergin, D J. Williams, S Islam, T A. Vangsness

    The flooding of open strip coal mines in the Bowen Basin and Hunter Valley Coalfields of Eastern Australia has the potential to soften the spoil and floor materials to produce “mud”. This mud can act

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of rock joint on construction tunnel face using convolutional neural network

    By H Kusumi, A Nishio, K D. Halim, Y Yun

    In Japan, evaluation of rock mass is crucial in mountain tunnels that are constructed using the NATM (New Austrian Tunneling Method) to determine the support pattern that in turns determine the final

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Carbonate Alteration of the Upper Mount McRae Shale at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia ù Implications for Iron Ore Genesis

    By G R. Dickens, N H. S Oliver

    The genesis of giant hematite ore deposits in northwest Australia remains a contentious topic in part because key evidence supporting a unifying genetic model has not been found at all deposits. In pa

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Multi-factor integrated data analytics and data-driven decision-making for ground control management

    By R Carstens, L Munsamy, L Prinsloo, C Huang, C Zhang, R Liang, I Canbulat

    With recent advances in machine learning, data-based automated decision-making has been proven successful with promising outcomes in many industries. Its application in the mining sector can be ground

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Responsible Management and Transparent Reporting across the Project Life Cycle

    By M A. Noppé

    "Mining is an inherently risky business: from the technical, environmental, social and economic uncertainties associated with advancing an exploration concept to a viable project; to the risks associa

    Jun 28, 2016