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  • AUSIMM
    A Robust Methodological Approach for Mine Site Water Accounting

    By N Collins, A Woodley, A N. Danoucaras, C McCombe, N C. Kunz

    Over the past decade, the mining industry has come to recognise the importance of water both to itself and to others. Water accounting is a formalisation of this importance that quantifies and communi

    Nov 26, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Beyond Geometallurgy – Gaining Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Broad View of Geometallurgy

    By S Dunham

    A cross-discipline approach combining geology, metallurgy and mine planning, geometallurgy is seen as the next logical advance in improving the design and operation of mining businesses. This rapidly

    Sep 5, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Eliminating Unidentified Misfires at Xstrata ZincÆs Open Pits Through the Application of Electronic Detonators

    By R Small, S Combrinck, R Lindsay

    Maintaining your competitive edge in the growing Australian mining sector today is an arduous task. With an ever increasing demand to extract more ore, safely, complete visibility throughout the blast

    Sep 18, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Using a Sustainability Assessment Framework to Achieve Enhanced Legacy Outcomes

    By S R. Green, G D. Corder

    The legacy issues from mining can, and have often, extended well beyond the closure of operations. However, conventional cost-benefit analysis provides little incentive to implement initiatives at the

    Jul 10, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Measurement? Assessment? The Real Challenge is Communication

    One of the earliest and continuing challenges in driving sustainable development in large scale resource industry projects is around the issue of assessment û how do you measure the sustainability of

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Examples of Groundwater Sustainability Issues in Mining

    For Australian mining projects, sustainable groundwater use is typically defined as a groundwater extraction regime, measured over a specified planning time frame, which allows acceptable levels of st

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Coalmine ventilation – examining the past, looking to the future

    By J M. Galvin

    History attests to the catastrophic consequences that fire, explosion and contaminated, noxious andirrespirable atmospheres can have for workplace health and safety in underground coal mining. It also

    Oct 12, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    How Robust Are Your Asset Integrity Management Processes?

    By R Cannings, J Wallace, M McCamley

    The mining industry continues to have major disasters (Bingham Canyon, Pike River, Upper Big Branch, Mount Polley and Samarco), which often have a devastating effect on the enterprise, in terms of per

    Jun 22, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Now to the Future – A Path Toward the Future Mine

    By I Gipps

    Each of us has a vision of what the future mine will be and, generally, these visions have many similarities and some differences. One of the major discrepancies in visions of the future mine is not t

    Nov 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Setting for Success – Private Equity Exploration and Mining Project Buy-in to Listing and Divestment

    By A Keogh, P Allen, P Stoker

    "An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation. Private equity (PE) firms are comparatively free of mandatory requirements for the level an

    Mar 18, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Mill Modelling Using an Extensible Station-Based Framework

    By E A. Gunn, J Zhou

    In this paper a project to develop a joint optimisation/simulation model for production planning in a mine-mill complex is presented. The system involves a mill receiving ore from a number of differen

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    A Systems Approach for the Application of Eco-Efficiency Indicators for Process Design in the Minerals Industry

    By H von Blottnitz, J L. Broadhurst

    Eco-efficiency has been proposed by the World Business Council on Sustainable Development as an environmental performance indicator framework that contributes to sustainability by assisting corporate

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Controlling Blast Related Fumes with Unconventional Explosives

    By J Rock, K Bambrook

    "Hanwha Mining Services was approached by Glencore Coal to provide a series of (trial) demonstration blasts at its Clermont coalmine. The intent of the project was to trial a bulk explosive product th

    Nov 15, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Applying control frameworks to enhance vehicle interaction technology outcomes

    By P Standish

    Qualitative risk assessment methods are not well suited to considering complex systems and potential interactions of new technology. As part of supporting tier one mining organisations and internation

    Jun 22, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Cultivating Minerals Sector Skills in Graduates

    The Australian minerals sector has a shortage of skilled professionals to satisfy an industry that is experiencing renewed vitality. Graduate numbers are low throughout Australia and the world, while

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    New perspectives in iron ore flotation – from fundamental studies to on-site pilot testing

    By L O. Filippov, A Piçarra, I V. Filippova, N P. Lima, K Silva

    The reverse cationic flotation using the starch as depressor of iron oxides is the most efficient upgrading process when is applied to the simple systems composed by hematite/magnetite and quartz. The

    Aug 24, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluating All the Alternatives to Select the Best Project Strategy

    It is well known that the ability to influence project value reduces significantly as planning progresses and decisions regarding project parameters are made. However, at the prefeasibility stage in p

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Spontaneous Combustion Management Comparison between Australia and China

    By B Poborowski, A Chen

    "For some time, the Australian and Chinese underground coal mining industries have evolvedindependently with minimal infl uence on each other. Despite the fact that in recent years severaltechnologies

    Jun 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    RISKGATE and Underground Operations

    By J Harris, J Li, M Shi, P A. Kirsch, D Sprott

    Australia has an enviable global reputation as a leader in health and safety outcomes in the hazardous industry of mining, in part due to an increased application of risk management regarding operatio

    Mar 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Ventilation Upgrade at the FrogÆs Leg Mine - Case Study

    By A Llewellyn, M Varvari

    The ventilation circuit at the FrogÆs Leg Mine was originally designed to permit mining to progress down to 440 m below surface at a maximum production rate of 500 kt/a, as per the feasibility study.

    Jul 1, 2013