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The Interaction and Impact of Water on Mining in Australia-An OverviewBy Dundon P
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) is Australia's largest company with widespread commercial interests ranging from steel productin to minerals, oil and gas recovery. While these
Jan 1, 1988
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Comparison of Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulphide Deposits in Modern and Ancient Back-Arc Basins: Examples from the Southwest Pacific and AustraliaThe geologic settings, geochemistry of host rocks, mineralogy and metal values in modern back-arc volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) mineralisation are very similar to those in many ancient polym
Jan 1, 1995
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Fine and Coarse Iron Ore Beneficiation - An Evaluation into Global Technologies and TechniquesBy L M. van Niekerk
The mining of iron ore is a high volume low margin business because the value of this commodity is significantly lower than that of base metals. The main metallurgical challenges in most of the iron o
Jul 15, 2013
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The Effect of Detonating Fuse Downlines on Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil ChargesThe effects of detonation of downlines and downline-booster systems on lodse-poured charges of 94% porous prilled ammonium nitrate/6% fuel oil (AN/FO) were determined. Detonation stability was indica
Jan 1, 1970
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Elemental Wavelet Overpressure ModellingAirblast overpressure legislative limits can be extremely difficult to meet throughout Australia, which has by far the most stringent limits of any nation in the world. As the difficulty in meeting th
Jan 1, 2004
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Assessment of Appicability of Strength Criteria for Rock and Rock Mass to Coal PillarsBy Hossaini SMF
The applicability of four empirical strength criteria for rock masses, namely, Hoek and Brown, Bieniawski - Yudhbir et al., Ramamurthy - Arora and Johnston - Sheorey et al. has been tested against th
Jan 1, 1992
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Review of Past and Present Steam Pumping at MinesI take it the character of addresses to conventions, should, following precedent, avoid details, and treat subjects rather from a philosophical point of view so far as they will permit.In the subject
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Address to the 4th Mill OperatorÆs Conference Burnie, 11 March 1991It is indeed a pleasure to be here this morning to open the 4th Mill Operators' Conference. It is no mean feat to organise such an event and I would like to congratulate the committee for the wo
Jan 1, 1991
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Challenges in Light Metal ProductionBy M Cooksey, C Goodes, G Wellwood
Light metals have great potential for application in the automotive and aerospace industries because of their excellent physical properties. The usage of aluminium, titanium and magnesium is limited b
Jan 1, 2006
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Magnetic Separation Basic Principles and Their Practical ApplicationMagnetic Separators have a wide application in dry separation processes, frequently in conjunction with High Tension Separation. Dry processes can frequently be superior to established processes in mo
Jan 1, 1958
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Plate Tectonics and the Precambrian-Phanerozoic Evolution of AustraliaAustralian continental crust has accreted and consolidated by thirds: 1/3 during Archean time, 1/3 during Early to mid-Proterozoic time, and 1/3 during latest Precambrian to mostly Paleozoic time. The
Jan 1, 1995
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Opportunities With Underground Grinding and Hydraulic HoistingBy C J. Larder, S E. Turner
The concept of underground grinding is not new, but to a metallurgist and a mining engineer this could be considered unconventional. The idea of pumping a ground slurry several hundred metres from und
Jan 1, 2005
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Selection of Entrainment Control Processes in Copper Solvent Extraction PlantsBy K Dudley, D Readett
The design of entrainment control processes in copper SX plants has been studied by use of models based on achievable plant performance. A number of alternatives have been assessed for their suitabili
Jan 1, 2002
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Mineral Deposit Profiles for Clays Associated with Volcanic Rocks in New ZealandBy A B. Christie
In Northland, Coromandel, Taupo and Canterbury, weathering and hydrothermal alteration of Cenozoic volcanic rocks has resulted in the formation of various types of clay deposits. Subtropical weatherin
Jan 1, 2007
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Improved Mine Throughput Ensures a Sustainable Return on Capital at Mount Isa Copper OperationsBy N Slade, D Kennedy
Optimal throughput is a key objective for the successful operation of any manufacturing or processing business. In the mining industry in particular, in order to obtain maximum return on the significa
Jan 1, 2006
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Advanced Concepts in Large Slurry Storage TanksOne of the most frequently asked questions at the feasibility study stage of a project is, æhow big can one go?Æ This important question effects costing and efficiency of metallurgical equipment, the
Jan 1, 2006
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Minerals for Agriculture'Industrial Minerals - their mining and use in New Zealand' is the theme of the 1978 Annual Conference of the New Zealand Branch of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. This
Jan 1, 1978
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The Forging and Heat Treatment of Tyres and AxlesIT is most remarkable and valuable property of mediurn and high carbon steels that they should be so susceptible to heat treatment, the wide range of variability in tenacity, ductility, etc, due to th
Jan 1, 1926
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The Sinking and Equipping of the Burwood Colliery TunnelIn order to meet the increasing demand for coal for their Newcastle Steel Works, the Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd., on June 5, 1937, approved of a scheme to sink a tunnel to the Victoria Seam at their Bur
Jan 1, 1947
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Magnetic Conditioning of Sphalerite at XstrataÆs Mount Isa Zinc OperationsBy P Voigt, B Lumsden, P Lines, I Gurnett
Plant tests of magnetic conditioning have shown increased flotation recovery of paramagnetic sulfide minerals (chalcopyrite, sphalerite and pentlandite) in the -38 ¦m size fraction within rougher and
Oct 29, 2012