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  • AUSIMM
    Understanding ore heterogeneity and effective bulk ore sorting using PGNAA/PFTNA

    By S Ferguson, G Noble

    The mining industry is facing economic pressures to treat more challenging and lower grade ore types, as well as pressure relating to environmental impact and social license to operate. Preconcentrati

    Nov 10, 2020

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    Accurately defining failure geometries and their variability

    By E J. Hancock, K H. B Chu

    Failures within hard rock underground excavations have historically been defined by a depth of failure, estimated in the field or through individual measurements, with a simplified failure geometry; s

    Nov 29, 2022

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    An Approach to High Solids Slurry Pipeline Design

    By M Griffiths

    This paper outlines an approach to high solids slurry pipeline design with data generated from a closed pipe-loop test system. The pressure and flow rate data generated is used to develop a pseudo-she

    Aug 8, 2011

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    Quantitative Risk Assessment Tools to Assist with Waste Management and Placement Guidelines

    By S Lehane, S Pearce

    The characterisation and assessment of waste rock has been the subject of considerable research, and many guidance documents have been published both internationally and within Australia. While these

    Jul 27, 2015

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    CIP ù Who Needs It? A Combination Circuit of Gravity, Flotation and Intensive Leach May Provide the Optimal Environmental and Cost Outcome for Gold Plants ù Stage II ù Results

    By A McCallum, J Abols, G Patrick, G Johansen

    The authors challenge the traditional thinking that whole ore cyanidation followed by Carbon in Pulp (CIP) or Carbon in Leach (CIL) should be applied as a standard process in the majority of gold proc

    Jan 1, 2004

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    Numerical Analysis of Extreme Deformation and Ground Support Performance at the N3500 Project

    The N3500 orebody is the northern continuation of the 3500 orebody at Xstrata Copper's Enterprise Mine and occurs at a depth of 1.3 to 1.8 km. At the nearby S3500 orebody, extreme deformation was

    Nov 25, 2010

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    Measurement? Assessment? The Real Challenge is Communication

    One of the earliest and continuing challenges in driving sustainable development in large scale resource industry projects is around the issue of assessment û how do you measure the sustainability of

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Iron Ore Holdings Ltd – Case Study of the Environmental Approval Challenges for an Emerging Junior

    By H Fletcher

    Iron Ore Holdings Ltd (IOH) is an emerging junior iron ore company that is actively developing projects in the Central and Western Pilbara region of Western Australia. IOH commissioned URS Australia P

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Managing the Diamond Drilling Interactions in Commissioning the Ankata Underground Mine

    By L Sandery, S Light

    Within 22 months of commencing decline development, the Prominent Hill Ankata Underground Project achieved its full production rate of 1.2 Mt/a.In 2010 construction of the Ankata Underground Project w

    Mar 24, 2014

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    Airborne contaminant monitoring strategy and technology

    By J H. J Holtzhausen

    Never has there been more focus on the health, safety, and well-being of our employees at the workplace. Ever evolving expectations of individuals, companies and clients are shaping regulatory reviews

    Oct 12, 2022

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    Dynamic grade control modelling processes at the Waihi Underground Gold Mine

    By A Whaanga, W Vigor-Brown

    IGO Ltd’s (IGO’s) Nova-Bollinger Deposit (Nova-Bollinger) is a magmatic nickel-copper-cobalt (NiCu-Co) sulfide deposit found 160 km east-north-east of the town of Norseman in Western Australia (WA). T

    Mar 22, 2022

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    A Spatially Enabling Relational Geologic Database of Java Island,Western Sunda Arc of Indonesia ù A Step to the Geoscience and Mining Data Model

    By K Watanabe

    A relational database in which its complex contents can be navigated through a map interface (ie spatially enabling) is relatively a new concept yet attractive for geoscience fields. This concept is m

    Jan 1, 2004

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    Tunnelling within the Bunya Phyllite of Legacy Way, Brisbane, Queensland

    By M Norbert, C Bennett

    The Legacy Way Tunnel was constructed from Toowong to Kelvin Grove in Brisbane, and is the first large-scale underground excavation in the Bunya Phyllite in Brisbane. The Legacy Way Tunnel is 4.3 km i

    Sep 17, 2014

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    Mill Modelling Using an Extensible Station-Based Framework

    By E A. Gunn, J Zhou

    In this paper a project to develop a joint optimisation/simulation model for production planning in a mine-mill complex is presented. The system involves a mill receiving ore from a number of differen

    Sep 26, 2011

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    Geochemistry of Tailings and Seepage from Three Tailings Storage Facilities in Australia - Uncapped, Capped and Active Tailings

    By T Baumgartl, D Bradshaw, B Forsyth, M Edraki

    In a tailings storage facility, the chemistry of pore water is a function of oxidation and dissolution of sulfide minerals, containing metals and metalloids, the neutralising effect of gangue minerals

    Jul 10, 2012

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    Application of rock mass index in the prediction of mine water inrush and grouting quantity

    By W Zhu, J H. Zhao, H Ma

    The permeability coefficient is an essential parameter for the study of seepage flow in fractured rock mass. This paper discusses the feasibility and application value of using readily available RQD (

    Nov 29, 2022

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    Stakeholder Engagement – Who Are You, What Do You Stand for and Why?

    By R M. Lonsdale, M D. Goodz

    "With an ever-increasing dynamic business environment, successful stakeholder engagement is becoming more fundamental to achieving desired outcomes in today’s mineral resource industries. It is impera

    Jun 22, 2016

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    Development Options for the Eyre Peninsula Magnetite – An Owner’s Perspective

    By J White

    The Eyre Peninsula (EP) has been known for its iron ore for more than a century. Edward John Eyre noted the ironstone outcrop at what is now Iron Knob in the 19th century. Sir Douglas Mawson visited a

    Jul 11, 2011

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    Dynamic concepts for mine to mill operation and optimisation

    By R Pax

    Feed ore variability, the major disturbance into a mineral processing plant receives considerable attention operationally, and at research and strategic levels to ensure that the throughput of the ore

    Nov 21, 2018