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  • AUSIMM
    Planned Preventive Maintenance

    The development and introduction of a preventive maintenance scheme in the coke ovens department, coal preparation section, of The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., Newcastle steelworks, is described

    Jan 1, 1961

  • AUSIMM
    Cable Tunnel Ventilation

    By P Ridley

    EnergyAustralia’s Sydney Central Business District (CBD) cable tunnel network will form a loop 6.2 km in length. The 3.2 km long, 3.5 m, diameter city east cable tunnel (CECT) currently in design, wil

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of Precision being Obtained by a Three-Stage Sampling System for Coal

    By C D. Rose

    "The primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate a different approach to predicting and verifying mechanical sampling system precision. Early in the year 2011 an experiment was conducted to eval

    Aug 21, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Developing the Ridgeway Deeps Project with an Operations Attitude

    By C Jones

    Ridgeway Deeps is a block cave (BC) located down dip of the operating Ridgeway sublevel cave (SLC) mine. The BC is located approximately 210 m vertically below the lowest SLC level and approximately 1

    Mar 21, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Non-Parametric Bayesian Learning for Resource Estimation in the Autonomous Mine

    By F Ramos

    Conventional techniques for resource estimation generally involve the laborious analysis of variograms and the specification of parameters for covariance functions. In large deposits, construction of

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Five Years With Paste Fill ù Experience at Henty Gold Mine

    By T J. Grandfield

    Paste fill has been used successfully at Henty Gold Mine for the past five years. It has allowed 100 per cent extraction of the orebody, stabilised poor ground and enabled wide sections and offsets to

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Composition of Fluid Inclusions from the Hellyer and Mt. Chalmers VHMS Deposits, Australia: Implications for Source of Ore-Forming Fluids

    By C G. Ryan, T P. Mernagh, S R. Hunns, R A. Both, R R. Large, J B. Gemmell

     The Hellyer and Mt. Chalmers deposits are mound-style volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits in Australia. Textural, petrographic and microthennometric investigations of fluid inclusio

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Government Coodrination and Liaison: The Lihir Project

    By Van Dusen M

    The involvement of concerned parties in all aspects of the Lihir Project from an early stage has promoted good relations between all groups. Activities involving landowners, the Lihir community, t

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    Hismelt« - Direct Ironmaking Becomes a Reality

    Following extensive trials on a 100 000 tpa Research and Development facility at Kwinana, Western Australia, Hismelt Corporation (wholly owned by Rio Tinto) are confident of the future commercial su

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Management of Technical Risk for the Ravensthorpe Nickel Project

    By R Fury, I Skepper, D White, G Miller

    Although the Pressure Acid Leaching (PAL) of nickel laterites has been conducted at Moa Bay, Cuba, since the early 1960s, the commissioning delays generally encountered by the æsecond generationÆ of P

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Developments in Equipment Used for Overburden Removal and Coal Winning in the Brown Coal Industry Part 1 Excavation Equipment

    The brown coal deposits of the Latrobe Valley are ideal for open cut mining and this method has been used since the start of coal winning in 1894. Operations at the main Yall9urn open cut commenced in

    Jan 1, 1960

  • AUSIMM
    The effect of vane shear rotation speed on the estimation of tailings undrained strength

    By B Wentzinger, Y Keulemans

    This paper presents the results of a field study designed to assess the impact of vane rotation speed on the estimated undrained strength for two Australian bauxite tailings storage facilities. The va

    Jul 1, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Exploring Optimised Delay Timing for Fragmentation

    By C K. McKenzie

    As more and more mining operations around the world either switch to, or trial, electronic initiation systems, the breadth of knowledge and experience regarding their effective application has widened

    Nov 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Energy Efficiency Opportunities in Milling – Improving Comminution Circuit Efficiency

    By F Musa

    One of the main energy efficiency opportunities identified from the majority of mine site energy audits is to optimize the comminution circuit to reduce energy consumption through improved throughput

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Real-time Mining – Moving Towards Continuous Process Management in Mineral Resource Extraction

    By N Jeannee, L Rattmann, M W. N Buxton, A deJong, K Nienhaus, A Soares, P Graham, A Korre, J Benndorf, D Buttgereit

    The flow of information, and consequently the decision-making along the chain of mining from exploration to beneficiation, typically occurs in a discontinuous fashion over long timespans. In addition,

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Improving the performance of blind uphole rises at Ernest Henry Mine – a case study

    By T Purvis, Z Liu

    Ernest Henry mine (EHM) is an underground sublevel caving mine located in north-west Queensland with a production rate of 6.4 Mt/a. The mine has sublevels spaced with a 25 m vertical interval. The pro

    Oct 16, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Thermal phosphorus – it’s a hot commodity with a hot process

    By R Atmuri, W Liang, R Prasad, Y Liu, E Wingate

    Yellow phosphorus (YP) has been commercially produced since the 1920s. First in the USA by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), next in Russian (Kazakhstan) in the 1950s, and finally in China in the

    Aug 21, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Active and Passive Seismic Monitoring of Cave Front Evolution

    By R A. Lynch

    The state-of-the-art in cave seismic monitoring is reviewed, with the latest developments in active seismic monitoring included. Seismic monitoring systems are routinely used by most of the world’s bl

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    The George Fisher Project to Increase Recovery in the Mount Isa Lead/Zinc Concentrator

    By K S. Fisher, J D. Pease

    The installation of the George Fisher flowsheet in the lead/zinc concentrator at Mount Isa Mines Limited has recently been completed. The George Fisher flowsheet involved moving flotation capacity fro

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Integrating Measurement, Systems and Leadership to Build Safe, Productive Cultures

    By M I. Roberts

    As Australia’s mining industry painfully retrenches, mining executives and managers strive to remain viable by seeking significant productivity increases directly through process improvement and indir

    Nov 4, 2015