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  • AUSIMM
    Future Climate – Is Heat Stress a Real Risk for the Future and How Can We Better Manage It?

    By C Killip

    Working in Australia’s harsh climate can have a significant impact on the health, safety and productivity of our teams, but is our working environment expected to be more prone to heat stress in the f

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Exploration Rock Geochemistry in the Hauraki Goldfield, New Zealand

    By O A. Cottrill, G A. Oldfield, S B. Nowell

    Host-rock û wallrock major and trace element geochemistry associated with epithermal gold mineralisation in the Hauraki Goldfield of New Zealand is poorly documented, even though rock geochemistr

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    Quantifying Uncertainty in a Narrow Vein Deposit – An Example from the Augusta Au-Sb Mine in Central Victoria, Australia

    By A Fowler

    The unpredictability of the location, grade and width of narrow-vein deposits presents difficulties for mine geologists and engineers attempting to estimate, schedule, forecast and mine their deposit

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Five years of cover performance monitoring and modelling for a store and release cover at Century Mine

    By T Rohde, P Defferrard

    In 2010 a store and release cover (the cover) was constructed on the south waste rock dump (SWRD) at Century mine. This also included aerial seeding of province native trees and shrub seeds. The purpo

    Jul 23, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Why is Mineralogical Data Essential for Designing a Metallurgical Test Work Program for Process Selection and Design?

    By L Lorenzen

    The selection of samples for metallurgical test work is generally focused on providing geologically representative samples. One of the major problems experienced with metallurgical test work using dri

    Sep 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Practical Implicit Geological Modelling

    By H J. Ross, R K. Beatson, T J, W R. Fright

    Traditional method of explicitly defining three-dimensional (3D) ore-waste and geological boundaries relies heavily on a time-consuming process of manual digitisation. This method of modelling can be

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Excavating an Underground Primary Fan Chamber that is Adjacent to a Fully Operational Primary Fan in PT Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg Block Cave Mine

    By P Wahyono, H Vega, S Riza, P Vergara, P Gonzalez-Carbonell

    PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), operating in the Ertsberg Mining District in the Province of Papua, is developing the Grasberg Block Cave copper-gold mine. The site aims to output 160 000 t/d and will b

    Jul 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Simulating Extraction Shapes to Understand Financial Risk Using High Performance Computing

    By E Lima, D Gregory, C Faria, A Lapworth

    Open pit mine enterprises are complex systems that depend on multiple parameters such as mineral grade distribution, geotechnical characteristics, economic conditions and engineering requirements, all

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    The Mineral Wealth of Nations

    In the geologically prospective nations which rim the Pacific Ocean, mineral deposits offer great potential to create wealth fo

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Advancing Near-Mine Exploration with an Updated Geological Model for the Mount Wright Gold Deposit, Queensland

    By K Johnson, G Morrison, N Lisowiec

    The Mount Wright gold deposit is located near the town of Ravenswood, ~90 km south of Townsville, in north Queensland. The deposit has been mined by underground methods since 2006. It produced approxi

    Sep 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Scaled depth of burial application to increase blast efficiency in PT. Indo Muro Kencana

    By A Suwandhi, H Utama

    PT. Indo Muro Kencana (PT.IMK) is a gold mine that is located in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Drilling and blasting activity is applied in order to support mining production. Drilling and Blasting (

    Jun 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Tectonics and Gold Mineralisation in East China

    China has been producing gold for more than 4000 years with gold production increasing substantially since the 1980s, from about 25 tonnes in 1980 to some 160 tonnes in 1998. More than 80 per cent of

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    A New Approach to Flexible Open Pit Optimisation and Scheduling

    By A Galli

    Traditionally pit optimisation and scheduling is carried out assuming that the resources, the commodity prices and production costs are all known. Once the pit contour and the mining schedule have bee

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of Prediction Methods for Ground-Borne Noise Due to Tunnel Construction Activities

    By D Davis

    The prediction of ground-borne noise levels from tunnel construction activities requires knowledge of the input vibration forces from the vibration source(s) into the cutting face, knowledge of the vi

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Superpit Schedule Model – A Time-efficient Data-driven Estimation for Short- and Medium-term Planning

    By T Berryman, C Adams, L Griesel, C Buxton

    The Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) schedule model is used for short- to medium-term planning and scheduling at the Fimiston Open Pit Mine (the Superpit). The model bridges the gap between g

    Aug 18, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Conceptual Design of a Dry-stacked Coal Rejects Facility in a Subtropical Climate

    By A M. Barrett, P J. Chapman

    As filtering technology improves and there is an increased focus on environmental impacts, the concept of managing fine coal rejects by filtering, mixing with coarse rejects and dry stacking them is b

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Treatment of the Siirt-Madenk÷y Ores by Flotation

    Treatment of the Siirt-Madenk÷y Ores by Flotation

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Cultural Challenges in Chinese/Australian Mining Mergers and Acquisitions - A CEOÆs Perspective

    By Y Zhu, W Liang, P Knights

    In recent years, Chinese companies have invested billions in Australian mineral exploration, development and processing. In 2008 - 2009 alone, the Foreign Investment Review Board approved $26.4 B of i

    Nov 20, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Olympic Dam open stope observations, tactics and characterisation

    By G Capes, L Morizzi, N Mitkas, E Jones, D Grant

    This paper describes the mining setting for the sub-level open stoping (SLOS) mining method used at Olympic Dam (OD), and investigates the range of stope performance conditions encountered over 30 yea

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Vibration control blasting for low stability final walls

    By G Wyartt

    In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, an iron ore mine is undertaking a high wall cut-back to improve stability and allow access to deeper ore deposits. Several sections of the wall have been cl

    Nov 30, 2018