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  • AUSIMM
    An assessment of battery trolley systems’ performance in surface mines

    By H Bao, M Nehring, M Kizil, P Knights

    The mining sector, a notably energy-intensive industry worldwide, is a major consumer of fossil fuels, leading to significant carbon emissions globally. The move towards electrification, coupled with

    Sep 1, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Competitiveness of Australian Coal in Relation to Transport Distance

    By Gillies A. D S

    Rail, port and shipping charges represent 30 to 50 per cent of landed costs for Australian coal mines selling to Asia. This proportion is higher for sales to Europe, yet it is in Europe where Austra

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    The Future of Australia’s Mineral Wealth – Leasing to Support an Ageing Population

    By K Morrison

    Australia’s ageing population means that by 2050 there will be 2.7 people of working age to support each Australian aged 65 years and over compared with five working people per retiree today and compa

    Nov 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Real Option Valuation of Mineral Exploration/Mining Projects using Decision Trees - Differentiating Market Risk from Private Risk

    By A Chandra, P Guj

    Only a few complex real options can be valued using closed-form equations, such as the Black and Scholes formula, because these algorithms are restrictive and prevent the construction of practical pro

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Stratigraphy of the Marra Mamba Iron Formation within the Chichester Range and its Implications for Iron Ore Genesis at Roy Hill - Evidence from Deep Diamond Drill Holes within the East Fortescue Valley

    By P Hawke, J Hurst, B KrapeP

    Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd (HPPL) drilled two deep diamond stratigraphic holes (ECD0001 and RHD0296) within the eastern Fortescue Valley in the Pilbara of Western Australia. Located south of the Roy

    Aug 12, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Maximising asset value through optimal block by block decisions on marginal material

    By F Phillips, E Deucker, J Kato

    It is challenging to determine the optimal mining strategy to maximise value when a mine plan includes mineralised material which does not meet the full cost of mining but has value exceeding the vari

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Sand Mining Restoration on the Swan Coastal Plain using Topsoil – Learning from Monitoring of Previous Rehabilitation Attempts

    By E J. B van Etten

    This paper reports on the results of several years of monitoring rehabilitation at a silica sand mine on the Swan Coastal Plain, south of Perth. Mining here occurs below the regional watertable and le

    Oct 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Broken Hill - A Test Bed for Geology and Technology

    By D H MACKENZIE

    In common with several great orebodies and mineral camps around the world Broken Hill has been the subject of state-of-the-art technical and scientific scrutiny during its long working life. During

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Breadth and Depth – Ground Breaking Shafts for Melbourne Sewer Projects

    By N Lewis

    Recent major urban trunk sewer infrastructure projects in Melbourne have involved construction of nearly 10 km of tunnel boring machine (TBM) driven tunnels in a range of geological conditions varying

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Improvements on Estimation Tools and the Effect on Mineralisation Base Definition on the Zulti North Heavy Mineral Sand Deposit, Richards Bay, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

    By J M. Nel

    Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) has recently undertaken an exercise to improve orebody basal definition. Older mineralisation bases (pre-2005) were highly erratic using old protocol reverse circulation (R

    Oct 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Tunnelling in the Andes in Chile – By Drill and Blast and Tunnel Boring Machine

    By R Fletcher

    Pacific Hydro, a leading renewable energy company from Australia, is developing a series of cascading run-of-river hydro electricity projects in the Cachapoal Valley at the base of the Andes Mountains

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Staffing Mines in the Future – Learning from a Gender Study for an Ore Establishment in Northern Sweden

    By L Abrahamsson

    This paper describes results from a gender study for a new mine in Pajala, a small community in northern Sweden. Using a gender perspective, the study examines migration, education, local culture, the

    Nov 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Specification and Selection of Hand-held Gas Monitors (Detectors) for Underground Mines

    By D J. Brake

    There are many sources of gas in underground mines including development and production blasting, strata gases, spontaneous combustion, diesel equipment, chemicals used for a wide range of functions,

    Aug 31, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Reducing Grade Uncertainty in High-Nugget Effect Gold Veins ù Application of Geological and Geochemical Proxies

    By G F. Johansen

    The erratic and localised occurrence of economic gold grades is a common feature of high-nugget effect gold veins. The nugget effect is a consequence of small-scale geologically controlled enrichment,

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    A Guide to Selecting the Optimal Method of Resource Estimation for Multivariate Iron Ore Deposits

    By H Arvidson, J Vann

    When only wide-spaced drilling is available, for example at concept, prefeasibility and feasibility stages, properly implemented linear estimation (including ordinary kriging) predicts grade tonnage r

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Early Development of the Theory of Froth Flotation

    By J T. Smit

    The theory of froth flotation developed slowly, in almost all cases lagging behind practical developments in the operation of flotation processes. This was largely the result of a lack of understandin

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Pre-Competitive Exploration Research in Australia û A 30 Year Assessment

    By May J. R

    Exploration, including research, has fuelled the enormous expansion of the Australian mineral industry in the last three decades. Analysis of success and failure in exploration and research has the

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Closure Planning for a Going Concern

    How do you initiate closure planning for a mine site that is on the doorstep of a major community without generating the extremes of panic or complacency? That is the question that is faced by Austral

    Jun 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    On the Influence of Fundamental Detonics on Blasting Practice

    By A Minchinton

    With blasting, all far-field phenomena including, but not limited to, stress wave propagation, fracture, vibration and muck pile formation are intrinsically and irrevocably dependent upon near-field p

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Transition from owner mining to contract mining – a structured tender process using a holistic approach

    By Y G. Anoman

    This paper discusses the operating model within Endeavour Mining Corporation regarding the options of owner mining against contract mining. It’s based on the concept of ‘are we carrying out the most e

    Jun 22, 2022