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  • AUSIMM
    The Strength Properties of Fibreglass and Other Polymer-based Dowels for Strata Reinforcement in Coalmines

    By A Mirzaghorbnali, D Gilbert, R Burton, J Nemcik, N Aziz

    Glass-reinforced polymer bolts, commonly known as fibreglass dowels and fibre-reinforced polymer or plastic bolts or plastic dowels are increasingly applied for strata reinforcement in mines as well a

    Nov 5, 2014

  • 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
    Three Decades of Gold Production at the Newmont Tanami Operations

    By A Cranley, A Giblett, S Thacker

    The Newmont Tanami Operations are located in the Northern Territory, approximately 550 km north-west of Alice Springs. The Granites process plant commenced operations in 1986 as a 300?000 t/a ball mil

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Ore Mineralogy and its Relevance for the Selection of Concentration Methods in the Processing of Brazilian Iron Ores

    By C C. Souza, S C. Amarante, A C. Arauj

    All major companies now producing iron ore in Brazil currently employ or are planning to employ some sort of concentration method to upgrade their fine sized products (sinter feed fines and pellet fee

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Engaging Generation Y with the Minerals Industry

    Following a decline in direct and indirect employment in the minerals industry between 2000 and 2003, the situation reversed in 2004 and employment rose by 12 per cent. Furthermore, there are forecast

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Vibration control blasting for low stability final walls

    By G Wyartt

    In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, an iron ore mine is undertaking a high wall cut-back to improve stability and allow access to deeper ore deposits. Several sections of the wall have been cl

    Nov 30, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Kinetics of Reduction of Arsenic(V) to Arsenic(III) with Sulphur Dioxide in Aqueous Solution

    By Lawson F

    The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy is a society of engineers and scientists formed in 1893 (incorporated by Royal Charter in 1955) to advance science and engineering in the mineral

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    Viable and feasible decarbonisation – Tent Mountain coalmine repurposing for the clean energy economy

    By B D. Saffron

    In 1983, open cut coal mining operations were suspended at the Tent Mountain coalmine, located in Alberta, Canada in an area called Crowsnest Pass. Montem Resources (‘Montem’), an Australian mining co

    Aug 2, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    The Design, Installation and Commissioning of an Absorption Refrigeration System at Gwalia Gold Mine in Western Australia

    By J deVries, A Broodryk, P Kyselica, K McLean

    Gwalia gold mine is located close to the town of Leonora in the Goldfields region of Western Australia, some 830 km from Perth. The mine is wholly owned by St Barbara Ltd, an Australian Securities Exc

    Aug 31, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    A Novel Blasting Technique to Create Drawbells and Eliminate the Undercut Level in Block Cave Mining

    By A Tawadrous, D S. Preece

    Cave mining is of interest to the mining community as it offers a chance to extract large, deep orebodies with low operating costs and high production rates. It allows for extracting large low-grade o

    Aug 24, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    An application of Monitoring and Numerical Modelling in Open Stope Mining

    By Thomson I. R R, Friday R. G, Palmer W. T

    The paper introduces the problems encountered in designing open stopes and briefly examines the factors that determine the final stope dimensions achieved after mining is completed. A case study is

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AUSIMM
    Comparison of Semi-autogenous Mills Operations in Andean Countries

    By J Rayo

    Andean countries (Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina) have 42 semi-autogenous mills (SAG) in operation and there are more than 30 projects in the pipeline that consider SAG mills. At the end of the ne

    Sep 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Worthing Mine and its Historic Enginehouse

    By Connell JE

    The Worthing Mine near Hallett Cove. 20 km southwest of the cite of Adelaide, belongs to Aus- tralia's first mining era, which took place in South Australia between 1841 and 1851 (Figure 1). Op

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Using Dynamic Simulation Throughout a Process Plant's Life Cycle

    Using Dynamic Simulation Throughout a Process Plant's Life Cycle

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    The Ability of Current Gas Monitoring Techniques to Adequately Detect Spontaneous Combustion

    This paper investigates the adequacy of current gas monitoring techniques to adequately detect spontaneous combustion in underground coalmines. Despite being in the 21st century spontaneous combustion

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    The Direct Outokumpu Nickel Smelting (DON) Process and the Harjavalta Expansion

    By MattelmSki M

    Outokumpu Harjavalta Metals Oy has been producing nickel since 1962, based on conventional flash smelting technology followed by electrowinning of nickel. In the 1980s, a research project was initia

    Jan 1, 1996

  • AUSIMM
    Concept and Operation of the New Conventional Cell House of Asturiana de Zinc at San Juan de Nieva, Spain

    By LefTvre Y

    In May 1991, AZSA commissioned a new conventional Cell House. This paper focuses on the major improvements introduced in the design and the construction of the equipment, machinery and control. An e

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    Fibre-reinforced Geopolymer Concrete – An Innovative Material for Tunnel Segments

    By M Wieloch, D Wimpenny, M Chappell

    Fibre-reinforced geopolymer concrete (FRGC) contains no Portland cement or steel reinforcement, but instead uses synthetic fibre reinforcement and a geopolymer binder. The use of geopolymer binder in

    Sep 17, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Fluid Bed Roasting at Mount ISA

    By Casley G. E, Pritchard J

    A single slurry fed fluosolids roaster was chosen to replace six multiple hearth roasters in the Copper Smelter at Mount Isa as part of the overall program to increase production from 100 000 to 15

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AUSIMM
    A review of dynamic energy-absorbing cable bolts

    By P Craig, M Holden, C Zhang, D Foster, J Oh, S Saydam, J Liu, H L. Ramandi, S Akdag

    High stress in rock masses can cause significant instability problems such as squeezing deformation in soft rock and rock bursts in hard rock. The support system applied in burst-prone areas in high-s

    Nov 29, 2022