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  • AUSIMM
    Testing and Sampling Requirements for Input to Spontaneous Combustion Risk Assessment

    By B Beamish

    "All underground coal mines in Australia are required to develop a Spontaneous CombustionManagement Plan (SCMP). The New South Wales Government has developed a guideline (MDG1006) to assist operations

    Jun 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Microseismic Imaging and Hydrofracture Numerical Simulations

    By Will S. Pettitt

    Fracture Network Engineering (FNE) is the engineering design of rock mass disturbance through the use of advanced techniques to model fractured rock masses numerically, and then correlate field observ

    Jun 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Simulation of Brazilian Test Using PFC2D Grain-Based Model

    By Navid Bahrani

    The grain-based model (GBM) has resolved the difficulty of matching both the directtension (sc) and unconfined-compressive (st strengths of typical brittle rock by providing a synthetic material that

    Jun 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Ventilation Surveys and Model Building - A ConsultantÆs Opinion

    By J Rowland

    "This paper was primarily put together in order to demonstrate what are believed to be acceptablestandards, in relation to ventilation surveys and the subsequent model assembly process. Thiswas brough

    Jun 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Explosibility Limits - Establishing Criteria for Mine Re-Entry

    By D Cliff

    "Recent underground coal mine incidents have again raised the issue of: under what circumstanceis it safe for personnel to re-enter the mine? Mine rescue guidelines make recommendations aboutthe limit

    Jun 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Development and Implementation of a Risk Mitigation Strategy to Mine a Primary-Secondary Production Stope in a High-Stress Environment at VALE Creighton Mine

    By Allan R. Punkkinen

    Safe extraction of the valued ore resource in the deep levels of VALE Creighton Mine has progressed in a pillar-less fashion using vertical retreat, slot-slash and uppers retreat methods since the ces

    Jun 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Statistical Analysis of Microseismic Event Characteristics to Monitor In-situ Stress Changes

    By Melanie Grob

    Two commonly estimated fractal dimensions, called b and D values, represent statistical characteristics in the distribution of magnitude sizes (b) and spatial hypocenter locations (D) of microseismic

    Jun 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Quantifying the Loss of Support Capacity Due to Corrosion

    By Jean-François Dorion

    In an underground mine rock reinforcement elements and surface support units are often exposed to conditions that make them susceptible to corrosion. These unfavourable conditions include high relativ

    Jun 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    A Case for Revision of Time-Honoured Mine Ventilation Design Parameters through Active Field Observations

    By B Belle

    "Mines around the world are inherently and operationally diverse. Current methodologies for the design of mine ventilation and cooling infrastructure involve controlling major safety and health hazard

    Jun 1, 2012

  • CIM
    The Effect of Weak Layers on Pillar Performance in South African Chrome and Platinum Mines

    By Gregory C. More O'Ferrall

    Generally pillars in the Southern African hard rock tabular underground mining environment are designed using either empirical pillar design formulae or numerical modelling (analytical) methods utiliz

    Jun 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Can a Risk-Based Evaluation Provide a More Valuable Mine Design?

    By B Maybee

    In underground mine planning, many potentially value-eroding decisions are made due to a lack of time and proper evaluation practices. The information required for mine planning decisions goes beyond

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Exploration Value Drivers and Methodologies

    By P Guj, J A. Bell

    The valuation of early-stage exploration projects requires a valuer to take into account a large number of uncertain value drivers, the interplay among which may be non-linear. This paper examines som

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Project Selection and Process Development for Mining Juniors

    By L Lorenzen, H Muller

    "Every year a large number of projects are evaluated by small listed and unlisted mining companies that are hoping to find the ideal project, which will catapult them from a mining junior status to th

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Decision Support for an Underground Gold Mining Operation - A Case Study using the Schedule Optimisation Tool

    By B Maybee, L Fava, D Millar

    In the context of a case study for an underground gold mine, the value generated by a schedule optimisation tool (SOT) is assessed. SOT is a software tool for underground mine planning that maximises

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Uncertainty - An Important Source of (Additional) Value for Mine Projects

    By S Watson, L Martinez

    Mine projects are complex opportunities that demand a constant assessment of uncertainty, ie risk and upside potential. This is because the value of a mine project is typically influenced by many unde

    May 24, 2012

  • 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
    Making Sure that the Amount of Grade Variation is a Known Known

    By G K. Robinson

    Variations in many aspects of physical and chemical grade are often of concern to mining operations and mineral processing plants. In most circumstances these amounts of variation are predictable. At

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Mine Project Risk Management

    Risk management has become an essential tool for mining companies to ensure their projects are well-managed and profit expectations are achieved. Risk management has also become a mandatory corporate

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    A Great Project Team - Bringing Together Location and Culture

    By A M. Ebbels, D Pratt

    The current commodities super-cycle has seen an explosion in the number of mining projects demanding human resources throughout the world. The demand for key personnel currently far outweighs the inte

    May 24, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    What Project Managers must Demand from an Economic Evaluation!

    By P Card

    Some project managers accept unsatisfactory economic evaluation modelling because they are unaware of what constitutes good practice. They tend to leave it to the evaluation specialist or others to de

    May 24, 2012