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  • ABM
    Simulações Numéricas Da Vazão De Água Em Lanças Para Bof

    By Breno Totti Maia

    Para uma boa operação das lanças de oxigênio para convertedores BOF é necessário existir uma boa condição de refrigeração, devido à agressividade existente no ambiente, onde ela fica exposta a condiçõ

    Jul 29, 2018

  • ABM
    Otimização Do Transporte Ferroviário Outbound Na Arcelormittal Monlevade

    By Paulo Eduardo Melo da Cunha

    Com um cenário de constante mudança na área e logística, uma demanda cada vez maior por transporte rápido, eficiente e a baixo custo, muito se tem exigido dos gestores de logística na solução, otimiza

    Jul 29, 2018

  • ABM
    High Impact Integrated Melt Shop Management Systems - Effective Implementation With Sustained Success

    By John Ross Middleton

    Based upon 30 years+ experience in the Development, Implementation and Ongoing Support of Computer based Melt Shop Management Systems in about 40 plants in the UK, Europe and the USA, consideration of

    Jul 29, 2018

  • ABM
    Installation Of A 350 T Bof Converter At Arcelormittal Poland

    By Günther Staudinger

    Danieli Linz Technology has been honored at 4.1.2013 with the first contract for the exchange of a 350 t BOF converter for ArcelorMittal Poland Dabrowa Gornicza on a turnkey basis. This paper describe

    Jul 29, 2018

  • ABM
    Classificação Computacional Da Segregação Central De Placas Pelo Processamento De Imagens De Impressões De Baumann

    By Franz Ramstorfer

    Impressões de Baumann são utilizadas amplamente nas aciarias para a avaliação e monitoramento da qualidade interna de placas: em particular a segregação central. A análise e monitoramento da segregaçã

    Jul 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Martabe integrated life-of-mine optimisation

    By K J. Grohs

    Martabe gold and silver mine is situated in northern Sumatra and comprises several deposits in steep terrain that are required to be developed in the optimal sequence for the best possible Net Present

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    A risk-based approach to drainage design standard selection for mine rehabilitation and relinquishment

    By A Densten, C Gimber

    Surface water management and drainage is a key aspect of mine rehabilitation and closure planning. In the authors’ experience, drainage related problems are amongst the most common forms of failure in

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Wetting and drying cycles as a means to determine the effect and consequences of tailings ageing

    By T Baumgartl, R Akesseh, M Edraki, B Usher, M Shaygan

    With the continuing demand for industrialisation and urbanisation, the rate of mining and processing lower grade ores will also increase, producing large quantities of waste. As extreme weather events

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Mount Isa Mines Rehabilitation Materials Sampling and Analysis program for closure planning

    By C Nucifora, M Landers, J Jones, G Maddocks, K Mandaran, A Forbes, W Wilson, S Newman

    Glencore’s Mount Isa Mines Limited (MIM) operates the Mount Isa open cut and underground copper (Cu) and zinc-lead (Zn/Pb) mines near Mount Isa in Queensland, Australia. Tailings from processed Cu and

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Are our closure planning and regulatory processes adequate to identify, quantify and appropriately transfer residual risks after successful mine rehabilitation?

    By P B. Swart, P D. Erskine

    Despite an increasing focus by media, communities and activists driving an elevated regulatory focus in Australia and indeed some other mining jurisdictions, the mining industry globally has had limit

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of sustainability of copper production value chain from ore to metal using advanced simulation

    By A Remes, A Dennis, M Talikka, T Kotiranta, S Horn

    A mine project combines vast amounts of information from various disciplines including but not limited to geology, mining, metallurgy, technology, environment and economics. In many cases, all relevan

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Conclusions from long-term cover system performance monitoring – a case study

    By R Barritt

    Remedial options for a waste rock dump (WRD) were considered as part of closure planning studies at an active mine in Western Australia. To minimise the impact of any seepage from the landform it was

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Listening to Local Voices – a systematic approach for understanding what a social licence to operate means for Rio Tinto in the Pilbara

    By L Dawson, S Carr-Cornish, N Boughen, K Moffat, S Masterson

    The risk and consequences of community rejection and loss of a social licence to operate is well articulated (Moffat et al 2018), however, the means for systematically managing this risk are less esta

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Arsenic pathways in copper mining – sustainability issues and potential solutions

    By D Bradshaw, E Forbes, M Edraki, M Tayebi-Khorami, E Manlapig

    There is an increasing trend in the extraction and development of copper resources from complex deposits. These deposits pose mineral processing challenges, as they often contain low grade disseminate

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Olympic Dam mine closure planning process

    By G Hill, D Grant, M Tyler

    Located approximately 570km NNW of Adelaide in South Australia, the Olympic Dam mine (OD) is the world’s fourth largest remaining copper and gold resource and the largest uranium resource. Discovered

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Utilising mine planning to deliver closure landforms through productive movement

    By M Bettison, R Wright, N Taylor

    The primary mine planning focus during early study phases of future mining projects is Life of Asset ore production and grade quality, this will always be the situation. While waste schedule optimisat

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Is your mine closure a sustainability failure? Transform your asset and create a self supporting neighbouring community. It’s as easy as ABCD!

    By K Cochrane

    Time and time again history shows us that mine closures are sustainability failures. Mine operators do not know how to turn the mine closure into an asset and communities around the mine do not know h

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Risk management for minesite closure planning and execution – start now! Lessons from the closure of the Leigh Creek Coalfield, South Australia

    By A Querzoli, B Williams

    In late 2014 the Flinders Power Management Team was executing business improvement plans to ensure continued electricity generation until 2028 and beyond. Six months later, in June 2015, the Board ann

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Using an undisturbed landform to calibrate long-term predictions of the evolution of a rehabilitated landform

    By G R. Hancock, M J. Saynor, J B. C Lowry, K G. Evans, M Narayan

    Tools such as landform evolution models (LEMs) provide a means of predicting how a landform may evolve over extended periods of time. Here, we utilise the CAESAR-Lisflood LEM to assess a proposed reha

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Contour banks in spoil rehabilitation – a matter of timing

    By J L. Merritt

    Contour banks and waterways are standard soil conservation measures to assist farmers reduce the impact of gully erosion on sloping cropping land by reducing the slope length to the interval between t

    Jul 25, 2018