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Productivity Enhancement Driver Assistance for Mining Machinery Based on Unique Two-Dimensional Radar Sensor Fusion ConceptBy C Augustin, M Hahn, K Nienhaus
Operators of mining machinery like haul trucks or excavators have very limited information about the exact distance to other equipment as well as to the natural boundaries like berms, walls and struct
Sep 26, 2011
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Slime waste to boost agricultural productivityBy A K. Bhatnagar, S Saha, P Dixit, A K. Mukherjee, P Patra
TATA Steel’s R&D Division at Jamshedpur has developed a slime beneficiation process to recover iron values from iron ore slime. This process recovers iron ore concentrate containing 2.2 per cent alumi
Sep 18, 2023
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Implementation of a High Energy Dissipation Ground Support SchemeBy E Villaescusa, A Kusui, R Talebi, R Hassell, C Arcaro
Northern Star Resources (NSR) operates several seismically active mines as part of its Kalgoorlie Operations. In order to successfully continue mining at depth in increasing stress conditions, strateg
Mar 15, 2021
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The Kinetics of Ilmenite Leaching in Hydrochloric AcidThe production of synthetic rutile from ilmenite using hydrochloric acid leaching is investigated. Previously published data is used to comment on the optimum process conditions. It is shown that the
Jan 1, 2001
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Ramp Up of the Pasminco Century Concentrator to 500 000 tpa Zinc Metal Production in ConcentrateBy M Spagnolo, M Ashley, D, L Reemeyer
PasmincoÆs Century Concentrator in North West Queensland commenced operations in November 1999. The nameplate production capacity of 500 000 tpa of zinc metal production in concentrate was achieved in
Jan 1, 2003
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The Benefits of Using SmartEar™at Pueblo ViejoBy D Shuen, R Sales, D La Rosa
Semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill control is complex and depends on many dynamic process variables. Good control strategies ensure that a mill is operating as close to optimal as possible, resulting
Sep 1, 2014
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Sinter analogues mineralogy by different heating conditionsBy T B. T Nguyen, L Matthews, D O’Dea, T Honeyands, T Harvey
Productivity and fuel consumption of the blast furnace is driven by the quality of the iron ore sinter, which in turn is related to the sinter mineralogy. The sintering conditions including temperatur
Nov 8, 2021
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Evaluation of the Blue Cube MQi Slurry Analyser for Application in an Advanced Control System for the Optimisation of a Gold Sulfide Flotation CircuitBy D van der Spuy, T Kewe, K Keet, N Moffatt, A P. Paine
The Blue Cube Mineral Quantifier Inline (MQi) instrument uses reflective light spectroscopy and advanced chemometrics to measure mineral or elemental grade in a slurry line. The instrument takes scans
Sep 1, 2014
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Process and Engineering Improvements Increase Production at Hamersley Iron's Pellet PlantBy Lynch K. S, Street R. P
Hamersley Iron's pellet plant at Dampier involves ore drying, dry grind- ing in ball mills, disc balling and, indurating by use of the straight grate system. After five years of operation, the
Jan 1, 1973
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Production Variance Benchmarks and Their Use in Project Evaluation and Due Diligence"Cash flow modelling during project evaluation is enhanced when probabilistic methods are applied to the inputs. One of the important inputs is the quarterly production profile. Typically, the steady-
Mar 8, 2016
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Use of Isotopic Tracers in Environmental and Contaminant MonitoringBy Wall L, Dobos S. K, Berry-Lyons W
The air we breathe and both plant and animal matter consist largely of nitrogen, oxygen carbon and hydrogen; each of these elements has two or more isotopes, The rocks, soils and waters on which we
Jan 1, 1991
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Goldilocks – value of information for geoscience applied to coal in tactical time horizonsBy D Lucato, B Haase, R Saha, S Limberger-Forte, J Lishman
Cadia East Mining operations have employed geometallurgical techniques to advance the understanding of the in situ rock hardness variability across existing Panel Caves (PC). Geometallurgy advances th
Mar 22, 2022
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Clermont Coal Project Mine PlanBy Armstrong M
The Clermont Coal Mine will export steaming coal from the Wolfang Basin in Central Queensland, Australia. It is expected to be developed in the mid-1990s.The majority of the reserves lie in the 30 m t
Jan 1, 1992
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Zircon Trace Elements and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotope Systematic of the Halasu Porphyry Cu Belt, North-east Xinjiang, ChinaBy C Wu, H Chen
"An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation.The Halasu porphyry copper belt, located in the East Junggar basin bounded by Chinese Altay
Mar 18, 2015
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Groundwater modelling support for closure approvals at Ranger Uranium MineBy J Sigda, T Jones, D Staggs, J Ewing, C Cheng, J Pickens, S Paulka
Mine-derived solutes from Energy Resources of Australia’s (ERA’s) Ranger uranium mine have been closely monitored for decades. Ranger is surrounded by the Northern Territory’s Kakadu National Park and
Jul 1, 2021
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Quality Assurance and Quality Control of the Interpretation of the Geological Economic Commodity Concentrations is Important in Getting a Mineral Resource Estimate RightThe mining industry, both here and internationally, is continually developing increasingly sophisticated software to compute mineral resource estimates, but these processes cannot compensate for a fla
Jan 1, 2007
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Solubility of nitrogen and inclusion characteristics in high aluminium steelsBy M M. Pande, M Ishfaq
The effect of aluminium on nitrogen solubility was investigated by equilibrating melt comprising master alloy of Fe-Al with pure electrolytic iron in a controlled atmosphere (pure argon) at 1873 K. Ni
Jun 19, 2024
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The critical role of mine planners in the evolution of closure at BHPBy J Heyes, R Getty, M Sanapala
Closure is an inevitable part of the life cycle of every mine. Successful closure outcomes critically depend upon early and ongoing integration of closure planning and mine planning. Early and holisti
Sep 18, 2023
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The Introduction of Self Contained Self Rescuers into the South African Mining IndustryThe Government Mining Engineer of South Africa has decided to legislate that Self Contained Self Rescuers (S.C.S.R.) become a mandatory piece of equipment for all those persons proceeding undergro
Jan 1, 1988
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Using Geometallurgy during Process Optimisation Activities at the Southern Middleback Ranges Magnetite ConcentratorBy D Olwagen, C Stanton, J Gerber
From December 2013 to February 2014 the Southern Middleback Ranges magnetite concentrator went through a successful optimisation process that included the installation of extra grinding power to treat
Jul 13, 2015