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Design and Specification of Permanent Shotcrete Tunnel Linings
By D Mather
Fibre reinforced shotcrete has long been accepted as temporary ground support in both mining and civil tunnel linings. Greater knowledge and understanding of shotcrete as an engineering material and a
Mar 8, 2011
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Pit Backfilling - Managing Chemically Reactive Mine Wastes and Achieving Rehabilitation Objectives
By A A. Puhalovich
The placement of chemically reactive mine wastes in mined out pits (æpit backfillingÆ) is increasingly seen by industry as best practice to manage long-term environmental risks. This is primarily beca
Jul 10, 2012
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Development of mine operation value chain flowsheets fine-tuned and constraint based on the process information (PI) data to evaluate proposed operation strategies and ore pre-treatment technologies
By E Amini, N Beaton
Application of ore pre-treatment technologies such as Grade Engineering and in-pit ore treatment require comprehensive analysis to show proven value is being generated by switching away from the curre
Nov 10, 2020
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Paper No. 131. The Igneous Character of The Carboniferous Rocks of The Tokatea Goldfield, Cape Colville Peninsula.
On the Hauraki goldfields, within the limits of Cape Colville Peninsula, the Paheozoic rocks are confined to the district north of a line drawn from Mercury Bay on the east coast to Rocky Point on the
Jan 1, 1903
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Geometallurgical Sampling and Resource Estimation for Magnetite Deposits
By J N. Farrell
Metallurgists frequently use a small number of large samples to characterise expected mill performance, with the a priori assumption that these few samples are representative of the entire deposit. Ge
Sep 5, 2011
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Exploration Successes - How Have They Been Achieved
Over the past 15 years many world-class gold discoveries have been made in the region. Some deposits, such as Lihir and Porgera in P.N.G., have a contained gold resource that places them among the t
Jan 1, 1991
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New Zealand's Mining and Mineral Exploration in Perspective
Miners and mineral explorers are concerned at the increasingly hostile environment being generated towards their industry and their profession. There is little official or public recognition that the
Jan 1, 1977
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Cyanide Electrolytic Recycling
By B Rosemberg, F Lemos, A J. B Dutra
The chemistry of cyanide solutions is complex, this complexity being responsible for the ability to act as complex-forming agents in metal dissolution processes, among them gold and silver. Such ionic
Jan 1, 2002
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The impact of the weighting error
By G J. Lyman
In sampling a process stream, conventional sampling theory deals only with the variation of the analyte content and neglects the impact of the variation in the mass flow on the sampling variance, whet
May 9, 2017
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The Development of the Aircore Sampling System
By J M. Wallis
Heavy mineral sand exploration drilling prior to the 1970s generally utilised open hole auger and air-blast type drilling. However, mining reconciliations were poor and limitations on accuracy and pre
Oct 5, 2011
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Post-Mine Leaching of Galena and Marmatite at Broken Hill (ea61d7ab-2e88-4fdc-9bea-cd90f66cb557)
By Blanchard R
The discussion submitted by Drs. Stillwell and Edwards is at once helpful and gratifying to the authors. Their contribution deals with two phases of the problem-(I) an additional suggestion for the re
Jan 1, 1943
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Selling Australia's Crude Oil Production
In 1984/85 financial year Australia produced 529 thousand barrels per day (kbd) of crude oil. By far the major contribution (453 kbd) was light waxy oil from offshore Gippsland, Victoria. When the
Jan 1, 1986
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Factors Contributing to the Occurrence of Unexploded Charges in Underground Blasting Practice
The presence of undetonated explosives in a rock face after firing constitutes a hazard which can result in a fatal or serious accident if undetected before drilling commences.Most accidents caused by
Jan 1, 1956
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Metallurgical test work – between a rock and a hard place
By K Fiedler, A Newell, P D. Munro
Test work is the foundation upon which the success of projects and subsequent operations is laid, reflected in Professor Arthur Taggart’s pithy observation: ‘Make your mistakes on the small scale and
Aug 29, 2018
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Successful Raiseboring in Poor Ground Conditions, Kencana Mine, Indonesia
Ground conditions at the Kencana mine, Indonesia, are generally poor and an underhand cut and fill mining method is used for extraction. Due to these poor ground conditions, all vertical development h
Nov 25, 2010
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Getting it right from the beginning – ESG in mineral exploration
By L H. G McClean
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have always been important to the minerals industry and is now considered one of our most important opportunities (and risks). Getting it right from
Sep 1, 2024
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The Use of Non-destructive Testing to Identify Defective Rock Bolts – A Case Study
By B Jones, M Chappell
Permanent rock bolts used to support rock tunnels are required to perform for the design life of the structure as a minimum. Quality of installation is critical to the performance over the life of the
Sep 17, 2014
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Successfully Implementing Technology-driven Change in the Mining Environment
By B McCarthy
Mining has been typified of late as a boom and bust, cyclical industry operating against a steady decline in the size and quality of mineral deposits. Decreasing deposit grades and increasing costs of
Jun 22, 2016
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Direct Chill Casting of Aluminium and its Application at Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay) Limited
Over half of the molten aluminium produced at the 52,000 tons/ year eapacity plant operated by Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay) Limited in Tasmania is cast into saleable produets by the direct chill proce
Jan 1, 1967
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The Pre-concentration of Precious and Base Metal Deposits Using the Inline Pressure Jig – Higher Feed Grades and More Metal
By G J. Delemontex, N J. Grigg
Pre-concentration of precious metal and base metal ore types is becoming more relevant with the discovery, development and operation of many lower grade deposits around the world. The fluctuations in
Sep 7, 2015