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  • AUSIMM
    Impact of Blast Fragmentation on Hydraulic Excavator Dig Time

    By D Thornton, R Hodson, D Sprott

    Blast fragmentation size distribution and thus blast design have been found to have a direct impact on the load and haul cycle through excavator dig time and bucket payload. Previous studies have demo

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    The Spent Pot Lining Treatment and Fluoride Recycling Project

    By G Swayn, J Harpley

    Spent Pot Lining (SPL) is an unavoidable waste product of the electrolytic process in the smelting of aluminium. SPL is considered to be a hazardous waste in various countries because it contains sign

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Blasting Rock to Suit Stringent Underground Fill Requirements

    Recent analysis of backfilling material has shown that a finer size distribution is preferable for stope filling. In order to increase crusher throughput and pit productivity, a reassessment of the

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Perimeter Control Utilising Electronic Detonators at Mount Wright Mine

    By J Wall

    The use of electronic detonators in civil tunnelling applications, to reduce vibration in small firings has been successfully utilised for a number of years. As part of the mining industry’s commitmen

    Mar 21, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    A New Tool for Extensometer Data Analysis and Improved Understanding of Geotechnical Risk Factors

    By M Szwec, P Corbett, P Sheffield

    Centennial Coal operates the Springvale and Angus Place longwall mining operations that extract coal beneath the Newnes Plateau in the Western Coalfields of New South Wales. Springvale and Angus Place

    Nov 5, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    El Teniente New Mine Level Project

    By R Pozo, F Reyes

    Codelco Chile is currently developing the El Teniente û New Mine Level Project (NMLP) in order to increase ore production by seeking to mine the ore deposit located under the current operational orebo

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Potential of the Overburden Cast Blasting Technique in Indian Surface Coalmines – A Modular Approach and its Financial Implications

    By M D. Uttarwar, R R. Yerpude

    India is the world’s third-largest producer of coal and is endowed with the fifth-largest coal reserves in the world. Surface mining straddles the entire domain of the Indian coal mining industry, yie

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Planning and Development of West Wallsend No.2 Colliery

    By Blackham M

    West Wallsend No. 2 Colliery is a new mine that is presently being developed in the New- castle Coalfield by J. & A. Brown & Abermain Seaham Collieries Ltd., a subsidiary of Coal & Allied Industries

    Jan 1, 1972

  • AUSIMM
    Pre-concentration – more than bulk ore sorting

    By P Holtham, K Duffy, L Pyle, W Valery

    The mining industry is becoming increasingly focused on pre-concentration due to its potential economic and environmental benefits, particularly for the more complex, low-grade, high throughput operat

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Calcining Aluminum Trihydrate in a Circulating Fluid Bed, A New Technique

    Increasing demands on quality of metallurgical grade alumina and for lower production costs led to the development of a new fluid bed calcining process. The process, jointly developed in Germany by

    Jan 1, 1971

  • AUSIMM
    Estimation of Regional Stress State and Young’s Modulus of Ground at Torigatayama Limestone Mine in Japan

    By D Fukuda, K Kaneko, R Kudo, J Kodama, Y Fujii, T Sasaki

    "Estimation of stress state as well as elastic modulus is important for the prediction of a rock slope deformation in an open pit mine since it can strongly influence the mining-induced deformation of

    Nov 5, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Porphyry Instrusions, Rock Alteration and Mineralisation, Batu Hijau Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, Indonesia

    By Proffett JM

    Batu Hijau is a calc-alkaline, island arc porphyry copper-gold deposit located in the southwest corner of Sumbawa Island in the Banda archipelago of southern Indonesia. Proven and probable reserves ar

    Jan 1, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    Development Of Experimental In-Situ Leaching At The Mutooroo Copper Mine, South Australia

    By Canterford J. H, Bologiannis F, Smith A. N

    The Mutooroo copper mine is one of a number of deposits that have been evaluated by Adelaide and Wallaroo Fertilizers Ltd as a source of feed for the production of high- purity copper oxide at thei

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    The Fruta del Norte Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, South-East Ecuador

    By S Leary

    Diamond drilling since early 2006 has identified an epithermal gold-silver (Au-Ag) deposit beneath 140 m to >400 m of cover. The Fruta del Norte discovery had an inferred resource estimate of 58.9

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Exclusion Zone Calculation for Underground Explosives Storage

    By M B. Lovitt

    At present there exist few engineering calculations and principles to determine exclusion zones for personnel in the vicinity of underground explosive storage areas. This paper is written to encourage

    Mar 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Classification And Quantification of Ore Grain Textures of the Hilton North Deposit, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

    Studying the ore textures in a discrete orebody is a novel approach to estimating liberation potential of the ore minerals present. As part of a PhD thesis, this project aims at classifying and quanti

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    Myuna Multi Seam Colliery Ventilation

    Myuna Colliery long term ventilation requirements were included as part of the overall planning of colliery construction and underground development. Ventilation, during the simultaneous sinking of

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Fundamentally Transforming the Economic and Sustainability Signature of Mining Assets

    By M Jones

    The past 100 years the mining industry can be characterised by a focus on increasing financial returns often to the detriment of social, human, manufactured and environmental capitals. Despite the sus

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Development of an acQuire Based Geotechnical Data Management System

    By V Pere

    A geotechnical data management system has been developed to manage drillhole and mapping data generated from in house and consultant administered field programs. This system comprises a data collectio

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Geometallurgy applied to small-scale mining: a case study

    By D Lozada, A Salazar

    Geometallurgy is a tool that, for more than a century, has been present in the implicit operations of mineral beneficiation. There’s a need to understand the characteristics of the material to be proc

    Aug 29, 2018