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  • AUSIMM
    Productivity Enhancement Driver Assistance for Mining Machinery Based on Unique Two-Dimensional Radar Sensor Fusion Concept

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Slime waste to boost agricultural productivity

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Implementation of a High Energy Dissipation Ground Support Scheme

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    The Kinetics of Ilmenite Leaching in Hydrochloric Acid

    The 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

  • AUSIMM
    Ramp Up of the Pasminco Century Concentrator to 500 000 tpa Zinc Metal Production in Concentrate

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    The Benefits of Using SmartEar™at Pueblo Viejo

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Sinter analogues mineralogy by different heating conditions

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of the Blue Cube MQi Slurry Analyser for Application in an Advanced Control System for the Optimisation of a Gold Sulfide Flotation Circuit

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Process and Engineering Improvements Increase Production at Hamersley Iron's Pellet Plant

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    Use of Isotopic Tracers in Environmental and Contaminant Monitoring

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Goldilocks – value of information for geoscience applied to coal in tactical time horizons

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Clermont Coal Project Mine Plan

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Zircon Trace Elements and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf Isotope Systematic of the Halasu Porphyry Cu Belt, North-east Xinjiang, China

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Groundwater modelling support for closure approvals at Ranger Uranium Mine

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Quality Assurance and Quality Control of the Interpretation of the Geological Economic Commodity Concentrations is Important in Getting a Mineral Resource Estimate Right

    The 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

  • AUSIMM
    Solubility of nitrogen and inclusion characteristics in high aluminium steels

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    The critical role of mine planners in the evolution of closure at BHP

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    The Introduction of Self Contained Self Rescuers into the South African Mining Industry

    The 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

  • AUSIMM
    Using Geometallurgy during Process Optimisation Activities at the Southern Middleback Ranges Magnetite Concentrator

    By 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