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  • AUSIMM
    Influence of Vertical Pile Loading on Existing Tunnel Lining in Soft Clay

    By R Ayothiraman

    Tunnel excavation may induce adverse effects on nearby existing structures/foundations in urban areas. Accurate prediction of tunnelling effects on pile foundations of nearby structures in the urban e

    Mar 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Training our New Starters – Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    By M Davis

    Increasing growth in the minerals industry over the past decade has raised the question of whether the standard of training for new geologists has been negatively impacted. This hypothesis was tested

    Aug 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Which Way is the Wind Blowing Today? A Control Strategy Which Considers Meteorological Effects on Tunnel Ventilation

    By D J. Gray

    The 4 km long Huguenot Toll Tunnel in the Western Cape region of South Africa celebrated its tenth anniversary on 18 March 1998. At present a single (South) bore with bi-directional traffic flow is op

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Fluorine Removal From Ok Tedi Copper/Gold Concentrates

    By J W. Glatthaar, M Mavotoi

    The occurrence of fluorine in the copper/gold concentrates produced by Ok Tedi Mining Limited has provided a series of challenges to metallurgists since 1988. Although fluorine is distributed througho

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    SRS-1200, shaft rescue system with intrinsically safe communications and gas monitoring

    By B Stewart

    The SRS-1200 concept came about following the recommendations from the Board of Inquiry into the 1994 Moura No 2 mine disaster with the aim of having a system to remove personnel from an unsafe enviro

    May 5, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    International Mining Investment - Factors Affecting Country Selection\

    By Smele J. S, Dawes W. D

    In recent years there has been a trend among mining companies to diversify exploration and development away from the countries that have dominated mining activity for the latter half of this centur

    Jan 1, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    An Integer Programming Model for Optimisation of a Heavy Media Coal Preparation Plant

    By J Zhou

    This paper discusses the implementation of a mixed integer linear programming model for a coal preparation plant. The plant considered consists of primary and secondary heavy media cyclones, hydrocycl

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Evolution in Panel Caving Undercutting and Drawbell Excavation, El Teniente Mine

    By P Yß±ez, G Ferguson

    The El Teniente mine produces more than 340 000 tonnes of fine copper per year from an industrial complex of underground mine, concentrator and smelter. Mass caving methods are employed to deliver app

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Burden, Spacing and Borehole Diameter at Rock Blasting

    Most text books on rock blasting claim that the relationship between burden and borehole diameter is linear. The statistical calculation presented here with real values from one hundred open pit and

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    Metallurgical Performance Models to Improve Cut-Off Grade Determination at Mount Isa Mines

    By J Simpson, M Johnston

    Recently Mount Isa Mines undertook a study to review the lead-zinc orebodies to extent of resource and reserves and determine the new life-of-mine schedule, as the Mount Isa and Hilton orebodies had n

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Distribution of Mineral Deposits in the Atherton 1:250 000 Sheet Area, North Queensland

    Thirty six different commodities were recorded from 3708 mineral occurrences in the Atherton 1:250 000 Sheet area, mapped by personnel of the Queensland Department of Resource Industries. Tin, occurri

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of Processing at the Cannington Ag/Pb/Zn Mine

    By G Clarke

    Commissioning of the Cannington processing plant began in October 1997. The nameplate capacity (of 1.55 million tonnes of ore per annum) was achieved relatively quickly. Since then (like many mines) t

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding What Constitutes the Mining Industry's 'Social Licence to Operate' in Australia

    Societal expectations about how the industry operates and treats its people will be a key driver in the development of the Australian mining industry over the next 20 - 30 years (Moffat, Mason and Lit

    Jun 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    A Remote, Rapid and Accurate Three-dimensional Ore Waste Boundary Tracking System

    By A T. Spathis, K E. Leslie, K R. Blay

    Many open pit mining operations seek to control blasting-related movement of ore and waste to minimise loss and dilution. Tracking the movement of ore boundaries can result in the maximisation of ore

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Opening Occupational Health and Safety Opportunities for Underground Mining Companies by Closing the Knowledge Application Gap

    By Else D

    While the underground mining work environment may have processes and equipment considered unique, most of the broad issues likely to affect the occupational health and safety of employees are not. One

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Automated omission-free geotechnical deformation monitoring – a new method deployable by non-specialists

    By J Franke, C Gonzalez

    One of the regular tasks of geotechnical and mining engineers is the measurement and management of deformation in underground excavations. Although several methods are used to do so, the incumbent met

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Application of High-resolution Seismic Reflection Surveys to Exploration for Blind Vein Systems at the Cracow Low-sulfidation Epithermal Field

    By J Cook, S Pike, D Pridmore

    "An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation. The application of high-resolution seismic reflection to map structure and/or mineralisatio

    Mar 18, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Geometallurgy – Bridging the Gap between Mine and Mill: a Case Study of the DeGrussa Geometallurgy Program

    By S Robinson, A Turner, R Dale, C Butler

    "Sandfire Resources NL- (‘Sandfire’) DeGrussa definitive feasibility study (DFS) identified geometallurgy as a major factor in achieving optimum plant performance at the DeGrussa mine. A geometallurgi

    Jun 15, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Operational deployment of sensor technologies for bulk ore sorting at Mogalakwena PGE Mine

    By J Rutter, J du Plessis, er, M Scott, D Alex

    It is generally acknowledged that bulk ore sorting is an attractive prospect for the mining industry. However, uncertainties relating to the operational performance of sensor technologies, the grade h

    Nov 10, 2020

  • AUSIMM
    Geotechnical behaviour of spent ore – impacts of metallurgical factors

    By R Rimmelin, C Vergara

    Heap leach pads are composed of mined ore, usually crushed, disposed on liners to be processed with leach solutions, and the tail of the process is called “spent ore” which are then transported by con

    Jul 23, 2018