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  • AUSIMM
    Process Control Developments at Queensland Alumina

    The completion of the 3rd expansion at Queensland Alumina added 725,000 t.p.y. capacity to what was already the world's largest alumina refinery. Rated design capacity is now 2.0 million t.p.

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AUSIMM
    Subsurface Environmental Engineering - A Look Into the Future

    Perhaps the only thing certain about an address that purports to look into the future of any human endeavour is that time will prove it :.o be inaccurate. In undertaking the dubious, but oft-times

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    Petrology and Evolution of the N.E. Pacific Including the Aleautians

    of the multitude of physiographic problems of immediate interest in volcanic terranes, it is the origin of the magma forming the magnificent volcanoes that is perhaps the most mysterious. Unlike a

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Economy in a basket: multi-purpose use of gabions at the Porgera Gold Mine

    By Thompson M

    The humble gabion basket is to mine development what the light bulb and safety pin are to eir-ryday life. Gabions provide a flexible, easy to assemble and cost efficient solution for "101" mine and ci

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    Gas Well Testing in the Roma Area

    Gas well tests were performed on 17 wells in the Roma area. The procedure used in the test programme incorporates an initial isochronal test followed by what is described as the "two flow drawdow

    Jan 1, 1968

  • AUSIMM
    The Social Psychology of Risk, Safety and Leadership Maturity

    By R Long

    The founder of social psychology is sometimes identified as Kurt Lewin. In a 1947 article, Kurt Lewin coined the term ‘group dynamics’. He described this notion as the way that groups and individuals

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding Trends in Performance of Open Cut Mining Equipment

    By G Lumley

    PlannersÆ optimism (or maybe commercial necessity) means that most mine plans use equipment rates that are rarely achieved (Lumley and Beckman, 2009). This lack of understanding of what equipment actu

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Quantifying iron ore ‘handleability’ to reduce processing plant delays

    By P Cherepanskiy, G Elphick, R Hus, C Perring

    When an iron orebody nears its end of life, the extracted material can become increasingly problematic to handle. Higher moisture content occurs as larger portions of originally-below-water-table mate

    Jun 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Discrete Fracture Network Modelling – Importance of Accounting for Data Uncertainty and Variability

    By S Rogers, D Stead, E Eberhardt

    The last decade has seen a major increase in use of the discrete fracture network (DFN) approach applied to cave mining problems, often integrated within more complex geomechanical simulations. Becaus

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    The Introduction of Axis at Black Star Open Cut

    By M Gabbitus, B Young, T Lukins, M Slater

    This paper details the implementation of a new type of grade control system at the Black Star open cut mine in Mount Isa, Queensland. It explores the site requirements for grade control, what as previ

    Sep 18, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Surrounded by Change - Collective Strategies for Managing the Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Mines

    By D Brereton, C J. Moran

    Intensive resource extraction, in the form of multiple mining operations, presents significant assessment and management challenges for resource developers, governments, community and the environment.

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Platinum Mining and Sustainability - Understanding the Environmental Costs of Future Technologies

    By G M. Mudd

    The growing popularity of platinum and platinum group metals (or PGMs, including palladium, rhodium and others) for a wide range of applications leads to some interesting issues for mining and sustain

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Quantitative Risk Assessment Tools to Assist with Waste Management and Placement Guidelines

    By S Lehane, S Pearce

    The characterisation and assessment of waste rock has been the subject of considerable research, and many guidance documents have been published both internationally and within Australia. While these

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Comparative Cost of Rock Drilling Underground

    DURING a period extending over about the last two and a half years, the performances of various types of rock drills in use at the mining department of the Zinc Corporation have been recorded as close

    Jan 1, 1923

  • AUSIMM
    Is Every Mine a Pilot?

    By G I. Lumley

    ‘Every mine is a pilot’ is an attitude which encourages the mining paradox of optimistic mine plans and equipment under performance; propped up by an environment lacking accountability. The premise th

    Jun 22, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Your Career ù Are You an Overnight Dot.Com or a Long-Term Growth Option?

    The current boom being experienced by mining, coupled with a shortage of professionals, will mean those in the industry will have many choices. It may be easy to become carried away and run with the h

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    How Many Gold Mines will Inefficiency Kill?

    By G Lumley

    Gold miners have been underperforming the price of gold for a number of years. So why has the æmarketÆ undervalued our gold miners relative to what they have been mining? The low valuation ascribed to

    Sep 26, 2013

  • 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
    Improving Consistency of Delivery at Mt Rawdon Operation

    By M Boon, M Franklin

    This paper outlines the journey of cultural maturation and management system development at the Mt Rawdon (MRO) gold mine from its acquisition by Evolution Mining Limited (Evolution) in late 2011 to 2

    Jun 22, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Universal Reconciliation – A Multidisciplinary Approach across the Entire Mining Value Chain to Identify Loss of Value and Maximise Operational Performance

    By R Hargreaves, C Morley

    The authors often see problems on mine sites that are due to insufficient feedback between technical discipline silos as the realities on the ground fail to inform the models and plans used to drive r

    Aug 18, 2014