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  • AUSIMM
    New Experience in Gold Roasting Using Lurgi's CFB Technology

    During the past three years Lurgi's Circulating Fluid Bed (CFB) technology has been successfully applied to roasting of refractory gold ores and con- centrates. In comparison with the so-called

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    Productivity improvement through collaborative shift planning and tracking

    By E Deucker, A White

    Gold Fields Australia (Gold Fields) has identified that improving productivity through more detailed shift planning and operational control of mining activities is a key driver to the success of their

    Oct 16, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Blasting of High Density Ores

    By Grieve BL

    For a blast to be successful both heave and fragmentation must be satisfactory. Amongst the major factors influencing blasting are rock properties. This paper considers the effect of rock density

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AUSIMM
    Resource Modelling and Mine Design at Obuasi Mine, Ghana

    By C K. Boafo, J Visser

    Obuasi Mine in Ghana, with more than 100 years of mining history, developed from a surface operation into a deep >2000 m underground gold mine. The challenge is to extract value from narrow veins l

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Closure Cost Estimation - All Things to All Men?

    By H Jones

    Closure cost estimates may be generated at any stage of a mining operationÆs life; commencing with the initial prefeasibility studies and continuing through to the final decommissioning cost estimates

    Nov 20, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Development of solid waste-based flux and its application in out-offurnace dephosphorisation of low-silicon hot metal

    By Y Zhang, Z Zhao

    The green production of the steelmaking process has urgent requirements for fluorine-free fluxes. In this article, a new solid waste-based slagging flux was applied in the external dephosphorisation t

    Aug 21, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Supergene Alunite Group Minerals from Porphyry Copper- Gold Districts in the Southern Atacama Desert as Probe for Climatic Versus Tectonic Controls on Copper-Oxide Mineralisation

    By R Riquelme

    The El Salvador porphyry Cu deposit (26¦ 15Æ Lat S, ~2700 masl) and associated exotic mineralisation is situated at the back-scarp of the late middle Miocene Atacama pediplain in the western Precordil

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    An investigation into maximising the product grade and recovery of dense minerals in a single-stage REFLUX™ Classifier

    By J Zhou, L Crompton, K P. Galvin, J L. Sutherland, C P. Lowes, C Bezuidenhout, J Bijzet

    Platinum Group Metal (PGM) bearing ores from the Upper Group 2 (UG2) reef often contain significant concentrations of chromite which can potentially be upgraded to produce a saleable product. A common

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Heat, Mass and Impulse Transport Analogies for Underground Airways

    By Mousset-Jones P, McPherson M. J

    Underground airways are characterized by irregular shape and uneven surfaces including large-scale natural roughness, fractures, and a super-imposed sand roughness. Swirls in the grooves of the wa

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    Ramp-up and long-term performance of the Albion Process™ plant at GeoProMining Gold Armenia

    By D Walker, A Tsvetkov, P Voigt, O Kloiber-Deane

    The GPM Gold Operation has been employing an Albion Process™ plant at its Sotk (Zod) gold mine in Armenia since 2014. Long term data from the operation is now being published for the first time. The

    Aug 29, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Advances in downhole assay measurements and calibration techniques

    By H Rossiter, C Simpson, J Market, P Jeanneau

    Downhole Assay tools are a geophysical method to collect an instigated response from the material surrounding a drill hole and deliver a multielement proxy-assay. They were first tested in the Pilbara

    Nov 8, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    The underdog mechanical alternative for tailings dewatering: the screw press

    By S Whitton, W Wimmler, L Wimmler

    “Given the increasing scrutiny of the mining industry and its relatively poor record with regards to mine tailings management, increased requirements to minimise water usage (often accompanied by very

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    The Resource Management Act 1991: Its Implementation in Otago

    The Resource Management Act has been in force now for approximately ten months. This Act, and the Crown Minerals Act which accompanied it, have substantially changed the manner by which mining operati

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    WaihiÆs 2020 Vision: Part C: How Did We Get There - The Process

    By S M. Stewart

    Building and Maintaining Community Relationships   In mining terms, the town of Waihi is distinctive with the Martha mine situated right in the heart of the town. MarthaÆs central location and ot

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    A Mapping-based Approach to Geological Continuity Prediction Using Examples from the Balmat-Edwards-Pierrepont Zinc District, St Lawrence County, New York, USA

    By R H. Knight

    Uncertainty in prediction and modelling of geological (physical) ore continuity in geometrically complex ore deposits is a key risk factor in mining. Reducing geometric uncertainty of hard-boundary or

    Aug 18, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    A global review of geotechnical challenges and ground support practices in sublevel caving mines

    By A D. Campbell

    Sublevel caving (SLC) is a mining method adopted in a wide range of mining depths and ground conditions with various layouts adopted to suit orebody geometry. Sublevel caving offers more flexibility a

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Will introduction of EoRs improve governance of TSFs in Australia?

    By L Boczek

    The term Engineer of Record (EoR) is commonly used in North America and South Africa to define the responsible person for the design, construction and operational phases of a tailings storage facility

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Geology and Nickel Sulphide Mineralization, Honeymoon Well, Western Australia

    By Woodhouse M, Andrews D, Drew G

    The nickel deposits within the Honeymoon Well project area (26¦ 40'S, 120¦ 25'E), located 45 km south of Wiluna, occur in the northern part of the Agnew-Wiluna belt (Figure 1; Hill et at,

    Jan 1, 1996

  • AUSIMM
    Introducing HPGR quaternary crushers in a Russian magnetite operation – challenges and solutions

    By B C. Povey, K Lagutin, M Mryasov, V Noll

    The current Stoilensky magnetite concentrator comprises a three-stage crushing circuit followed by three stages of ball milling, grinding and concentration to produce a magnetite concentrate with 66.5

    Sep 11, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    An economic approach to optimising mill reline frequency – a case study of SAG mill relines at Rasp mine

    By C M. Standen

    The SAG mill at Rasp Mine has undergone a number of liner design modifications since commissioning in 2012, making liner wear and failure difficult to predict from historical data. During 2017, severa

    Aug 29, 2018