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  • AUSIMM
    Water-related Data Requirements for Improved Life Cycle Assessment of Mining, Mineral Processing and Tailings Management

    By G Mudd, N Haque, S A. Northey

    Life cycle assessment (LCA) provides an internationally standardised framework for estimating the environmental impacts associated with products or services (International Organisation for Standardisa

    Jun 28, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Swamp Works – A New Approach to Develop Space Mining and Resource Extraction Technologies at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center: Prospecting, Excavation, Load, Haul and Dump for In Situ Resource Utilisation

    By A J. Nick, I I. Townsend, J M. Schuler, J D. Smith, R P. Mueller, L Sibille, K Leucht, J J. Fox

    The first steps for in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) on target bodies such as the Moon, Mars and near-Earth asteroids (NEA), and even comets, involve the same sequence of steps as in the terrestria

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    A practical guide to sampling in coal preparation plants

    By B W. Atkinson, J Docherty

    An Australian Working Group has been compiling a guide for operators to use in order to improve the efficacy of their routine and non-routine sampling tasks within their coal preparation process. The

    May 9, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Spreadsheet Based Modelling of Liner Wear Impact on Charge Motion in Tumbling Mills

    Spreadsheet Based Modelling of Liner Wear Impact on Charge Motion in Tumbling Mills

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Characterisation of pore pressure in tailings dams and the implications for design

    By D Johns, L Murray

    This paper discusses pore pressures in the embankments of tailings dams by comparing real world data with common design assumptions. Assessment of pore pressures has implications on material behaviour

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Integrated Sustainable Water Management in Mining for Development in the Philippines

    By A N. Danoucaras, S E. Goater, D Hearne, A M. Bansuan

    It is globally recognised that existing and emerging mining activities should be conducted in a æsustainableÆ manner for the entire life of mine. Many companies annually publish corporate sustainabili

    Nov 20, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    The Economic Advantages of Detailed Geotechnical Assessments for Extraction Sequencing

    By A Bennett, S Arndt

    Minerals and Metals Group Pty Ltd (Golden Grove Mine) commissioned a comprehensive study of the life of mine using advanced 3D stress modelling. Essential input into the modelling was the proposed min

    Mar 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Open stope design; beyond the Stability Graph

    By B McFadyen, Y Potvin, K Woodward

    The Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG) held two workshops in 2019—one in Australia and one in Canada—to discuss processes and methods currently used in the mining industry for stope design and r

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Spatial distribution of geohazards in Western Australia and Imposed risks to tailings storage facility inventory

    By J Penman, N Turner, H Liu

    This paper aims to present a snapshot of the risk profile for tailings storage facilities within Western Australia by comparing the spatial distribution of known facilities against common geohazards s

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    A Simultaneous Optimisation Tool for Open Pit Mine Scheduling

    By Y Ren

    The algorithms employed by the commercial tools are either heuristic algorithm or iterative optimisation of a subsystem. This often results in a suboptimal schedule. In this paper, the author presents

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    How to Prioritise Process Improvements

    By D J. Hill

    "Mining companies routinely invest in improvements to their processing operations, but often these enhancements do not work to full effect.Improvements can be ineffectual because underlying process pr

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Plastics recycling and sampling

    By S C. Dominy

    This contribution examines the effect of feedstock sampling before the sorting stage of polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottle recycling. Batches of waste PET bottles may contain non-PET bottles which

    May 9, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Improving the Performance of Precipitator Tanks in an Alumina Refinery Using CFD Modelling

    By A Manzoori, M T. Shadloo

    This paper describes a CFD modelling study which was carried out to investigate possible improvements in the design of an alumina precipitator tank at the Jajarm plant of Iran Alumina Company. In part

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Lessons learnt from six mine disaster case studies to improve audit and assurance and ESG

    By A Atkins

    Six recent case studies were selected based on the eight main causes of mine disasters (Table 1; Quinlan, 2014) and where credible information sources, such as Royal Commission Reports, Coronial Inves

    May 5, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Research and Development in the Micron Research (W. A.) Solvent Procedure for Gold Elution from Carbon

    By Hinchliffe WD, Griffin A

    The desorption of gold from activated carbon is promoted by adding organic solvents to aqueous cyanide solutions. At 65-80¦ the elution of gold is fast and is not affected by water quality. The Micron

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Rehabilitating Post-Mining Landscapes for Wildlife - A Case Study from the Koala Venture Research Program in Central Queensland

    By F Carrick, W A. Ellis, D R. Mulligan, S I. FitzGibbon

    "One of the major environmental impacts of mining is the destruction of habitat. The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an iconic Australian marsupial that has been severely affected by land clearing a

    Jul 10, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Hydromechanical Processes During In Situ Coal Gasification

    By J Liu

    In situ coal gasification is a method of extracting a high proportion of the energy value from coal without the need for mining. In situ conversion of coal to combustible gases is achieved by drilling

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    High-Grade Optimisation and Improved Grade Control Practices in Mount Tom Price

    By B Morey, J Gordon, P Mackenzie

    Mount Tom Price Mine is peerless amongst Rio Tinto iron ore resources around the world. It has provided Hamersley Iron with premium quality, high lump yield haematite ore over the last four decades. T

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Preconditioning E48 Cave Extension Adjacent to an Active Cave

    By J Samosir, L Snyman

    Northparkes was the first mine in Australia to use block cave mining method which relies on gravity and natural rock stresses to fragment and recover the ore. It was also the first hard rock mine to u

    May 9, 2016

  • 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