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  • AUSIMM
    Formulating and Solving Complex Minerals Industry Optimisation Problems û A Systems Approach to Complex Systems Problems

    The paper provides an overview of the development and content of APCOM symposia since their inception in 1961. This development is set within the context of the academic environment in which much of t

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    An integrated and balanced approach to developing pre-concentration technologies across the mining value chain

    By G J. Wilkie, P A. Revell

    The R&D landscape for ore pre-concentration technologies within mining is characterised by the development of individual technologies and point solutions. This presents METS and mining companies with

    Nov 10, 2020

  • AUSIMM
    Raise bore stability and risk assessment empirical database update

    By A Penney, M J. Pascoe, R M. Stephenson

    The empirical McCracken and Stacey stability and risk assessment method has been in use for more than 20 years to assess geotechnical stability issues for raise bored shafts. The methodology has been

    Nov 30, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    The Basement Contact Zone at Mount Isa - Its Impact on Rock Mechanics and Mine Design Philisophy

    By Struthers M. A

    The basement contact zone, a major fault structure underlying the copper orebodies at Mount Isa, has a significant influence on orebody extraction. The zone is comprised of a variety of weak, barren l

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    Bauxite Residues ù A High Volume Resource

    By E Jamieson

    For a number of years, Alcoa World Alumina Australia (Alcoa) has been investigating opportunities to produce economically viable products from bauxite residues. Three of these potential products are d

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Setting Best Practice: FIFO at the Mount Keith Concentrator

    By S O. Hille

    Modern remote mining operations in Australia are more commonly trending towards fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) sites. This trend is driven by numerous factors including increased business centralisation, reduc

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Translating the Challenges of Sustainability and Eco-Efficiency into Improved Business Performance at Newmont Operations

    By A J. Minns

    This paper addresses the question: how can the minerals industry remain viable; viable in the sense that we are able to access land for exploration and discovery, we are able to develop and operate mi

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Introduction of the Robbins Mobile Miner to Mount Isa Mines Limited

    By Neill T. J, Howarth D. F, Malcolm J. McPhersqn

    For many years Isa Mine has seen the need for a continuous mining machine which will economically cut hard rock. Tunnel borers are unsuitable due to the size and inflexibility of the machine and t

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    Implementation of the BIOX® process at the Runruno Gold project

    By J A. van Niekerk, J G. Jardine, J W. Olivier

    The Runruno Gold Project is located on the island of Luzon, approximately 200 miles north of Manilla in the Philippines. The mine is an open cut operation and uses the proven BIOX® and carbon-in-

    Sep 11, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Wallaby - The Horizontally Challenged Opportunity

    Barrick Gold Granny Smith Mine is currently undergoing conversion from an open cut operation to an underground mine at the Wallaby deposit. The underground project commenced in 2005 with the developme

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    The Manufacture and Microscopic Examination of Shovels

    In the early ages man contented himself with the use of such tools and appliances as would assist him in the enlightenment of his labours. With the advancement of science, numerous motives, with modif

    Jan 1, 1926

  • AUSIMM
    Uncovering the Mineral Wealth of New South Wales - The Discovery 2000 Initiative

    In July 1994 the Premier, John Fahey MP, announced that the New South Wales Government would make available a total of $40 million over six years in new funding for the Department of Mineral Resour

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Cloning and Expression of Thiocyanate Resistance Genes in Iron/Sulphur Oxidising Bacteria

    By M Wilkes, C-Q Liu

    Microbial oxidation of refractory sulphide ores (particularly gold and copper ores) are well-established techniques that are increasingly employed because of their low capital and operating costs and

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    The Application and Economic Benefits of Blasthole Drill Monitors in Coal Mines

    By Vynne J. F

    Drill monitors for rotary blasthole drills have been available to the mining industry since the 1970s. The early monitors were pen strip chart recorders that were developed for the oil drilling ind

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Automated, online measurement of bulk material size distribution on conveyor using 3D profile imaging at Boliden Mines

    By M J. Thurley, L Lindqvist, D Degerfeldt, J Nyström, R Nordenskjöld

    Rock breakage is a major component of all mining and mineral processing operations with the particle size distribution linked to productivity through the comminution chain. Optimisation and automatic

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Filter-Pressing

    THE filter-press, which has done so much for the successful treatment of the sulpho-telluride ores of Kalgoorlie, has a serious rival in the vacuum process, and this paper is written with a view to ar

    Jan 1, 1910

  • AUSIMM
    Storys Creek Remediation Program

    By J Miedecke

    A metalliferous mine has operated at Storys Creek from the 1890s to 1979. Storys Creek drains from a pristine catchment and National Park and remains as the most degraded stream from historic mining i

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Lessons Learnt from Mine Explosions

    By H R. Phillips

    During the 1980s and early 1990s, the South African coal industry experienced a series of methane explosions in which well over 200 coal miners lost their lives. In addition, a fire and an explosion i

    Aug 31, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Take 5 – hero or villain

    By M Hassall, E Humphries

    Personal risk assessment processes, also known as Take 5 or SLAM (Stop, Look, Assess, Manage) have been utilised in high hazard industries for over 30 years. However, there is limited research to unde

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Strategic Decision-making in Mining – Business Optimisation Using Flexible Evaluation Models

    By B E. Hall, D B. Kahler

    "'Optimisation' has become a catchcry among many mining companies looking to tell the market how mining businesses will be improved and shareholder value increased. Consequently, the term 'optimisatio

    Mar 8, 2016