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Interpreting the Story of the Mining Landscape - Using Geotourism for Sustainable Community Development (cb7e1858-6c7d-4615-9ebd-70f3f9d5c5cc)
Landscape interpretation, geology and mining history is being successfully used to explore options for sustainable community tourism product development. Recent work by the author in Europe and Austra
Jun 1, 2010
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Reducing Mining Environmental Impact - Through Innovative Vibrating Screen Technology
The difficulty in screening of ores when the moisture contents reach certain critical levels has resulted in mining circuits using wet processes for screening. While this has been acceptable in past y
Jun 1, 2010
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In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) - An Economic Alternative to Trucks that Delivers on Safety and the Environment
If the industry keeps doing what it has always done, it will continue to get what it has always got - rising operating costs. Why is this so? Generally grades being chased are becoming lower, strippin
Jun 1, 2010
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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
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Improvements in the Understanding and Applications of Backfill for Improving Ground Stability in Underground and Open Pit Operations
The safety culture in mining has progressed towards a zero tolerance of injury. This change has required that some historically inherent risks of mining are engineered out or reduced. One of the signi
Jun 1, 2010
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Linking the Internal and External Players of the Mining Game - Corporate Public Affairs
The Johnny Mercer lyrics 'You've got to accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch on to the affirmative à' would best sum up the traditional approach to community relations
Jun 1, 2010
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Contributions from Improved Surface Mine Haulage Road Design, Operation and Management Techniques to Sustainable Development
Operating well designed and maintained surface mine haul roads is the key to minimising truck haulage costs - in itself a significant component of the total cost per tonne mined. Existing and proposed
Jun 1, 2010
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Impact-Response-Monitoring-Evaluation Framework - Well-Being of the Australian Mining and Regional Communities
In Australia a social impact assessment (SIA) is generally required prior to the approval of a mineral resource extraction or processing projects as a part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Jun 1, 2010
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Mineral Property - Rights, Royalties and Rents
In a modern economy there is a compelling case why governments should not own property rights to mineral deposits. Assuming they do, however, governments will use these constitutional rights to raise
Jun 1, 2010
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A Sustainable Minerals Sector in Australia? Thoughts from a Science and Technology Perspective
In the context of sustainable development, the Minerals Council of Australia (2010) states that 'investments in minerals projects should be financially profitable, technically appropriate, enviro
Jun 1, 2010
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A Due Diligence Approach to Environmental and Social Business Performance Assessment
The modern resource extraction enterprise is a complex capital intensive business operating in a world of constantly evolving social, environmental and economic scrutiny. Investors, government, media
Jun 1, 2010
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Soil Washing and Bioremediation of Slime Dam Material from a Gold And Uranium Mine
The solvent extraction section of an old Uranium Plant in the Vaal River region (North West Province in South Africa) produced a substance called CRUD (Chalk River Unidentified Deposit) that formed wi
Jun 1, 2010
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The Impact on Communities and Sustainable Development Through Furthering Investment in Extractive Industries
The Regional Development Council has initiated a project that aims to find better ways for further investment by extractive industry companies in sustainable regional and community futures. It will be
Jun 1, 2010
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A Sustainability Framework Approach to Understanding the Value of By-Product Reuse
The use of mining by-products for beneficial use may face approval, and acceptance barriers. This paper described the use of a sustainability framework to assess the safety, effectiveness and economic
Jun 1, 2010
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What Women in Mining Want
With the next mining boom looming, the industry will once again struggle to meet skills needed as the current generation boomers are set to retire. In order to meet these needs it is going to need to
Jun 1, 2010
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Preventing Fatalities Arising from Corporate Memory Loss within the Resources Sector
A review of publicly available coronial inquiries into fatalities that have occurred within the resources sector since the year 2000 reveals that a loss of corporate memory has been a contributing fac
Jun 1, 2010
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Managing Human Rights and Sustainable Development - Effective Corporate-Community Relationships
This paper identifies the challenges and opportunities for mining companies and communities in investing in human rights compatible, credible, effective and representative company-community relationsh
Jun 1, 2010
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Mining Under Indonesia's New Environmental Law
The new law on Environmental Protection and Management (Republic of Indonesia Law 32 of 2009) was passed by the Indonesian parliament in September 2009. This law aims to protect Indonesia's rapid
Jun 1, 2010
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Understanding What Constitutes the Mining Industry's 'Social Licence to Operate' in Australia
Societal expectations about how the industry operates and treats its people will be a key driver in the development of the Australian mining industry over the next 20 - 30 years (Moffat, Mason and Lit
Jun 1, 2010
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Yesterday's Tailings are Tomorrow's Resource - Rehabilitation of Stilfontein Gold Mine for Profit
Stilfontein Gold Mine, located approximately 160 km west of Johannesburg, produced both gold and uranium from 1952 through to the early 1990s. On decommissioning the mine infrastructure, treatment pla
Jun 1, 2010