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  • AUSIMM
    Friction bolt performance over the past ten years in Australian mines

    By T M. Nester, D J. Reardon, A N. Page, B J. Barsanti

    The load capacity of a friction bolt has long been regarded as 4 t/m of embedment for ground support design analysis and supported by in situ pull test results. In recent years, the authors have obser

    Nov 29, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    An Open Pit Multistage Mine Production Scheduling Model for Drilling, Blasting and Excavating Operations

    By S Q. Liu, E Kozan

    This paper proposes a new multiresource multistage scheduling problem for optimising the open pit drilling, blasting and excavating operations under equipment capacity constraints. The flow process is

    Nov 24, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Integrated Photogrammetry and Discrete Fracture Network Modelling for Improved Rock Mass Characterisation and Engineering Design

    By S F. Rogers, P W. Booth

    Digital photogrammetry is revolutionising the task of geotechnical mapping of jointed rock masses and has greatly increased in popularity and sophistication in recent years. Modern commercially availa

    Sep 17, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    The Risks of Excess Water on Tailings Facilities and Its Application to Dam-break Studies

    By D Luppnow, H Rourke

    Recent disasters such as the failure of the Mount Polley tailings embankment remind us of the risks that tailings facilities pose. It is widely recognised that dam-break assessments are a vital tool i

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Forecasting mine seismicity – towards a more established methodology

    By A Vakili, F Harvey, H Greaves

    Mine seismicity is one of the most difficult geotechnical risks to manage in seismically active mines. There are currently some established empirical and statistical methods that provide quantitative

    Nov 30, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Geometallurgical Communication as a Distributed Information System

    By C Moorhead, J Jones

    A common problem in the mining industry is that company geologists can operate in relative isolation to the rest of the company (Jones and Moorhead, 2011). This may result in poor knowledge transfer a

    Sep 29, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Reducing waste in the iron ore industry by beneficiating slimes using new flotation regime and two-stage processing routes

    By N Lima, A Piçarra, L Filippov, I Filippova, M Marques, K Silva

    The iron industry produces a considerable amount of tailings per annum, due to its substantial volumes of production. The actual iron ore processing routes require the removal of slimes fractions. In

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    The Influence of Energy Policy and Security Energy Supply Policy of Indonesia to Asia-Pacific Coal Distribution in 2025

    By A P. Wibowo

    Indonesia holds a significant role in the utilisation of coal resources in the world. Although the number of Indonesian coal resources and reserves do not fall into the world’s top ten, according to 2

    Nov 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    An analysis of productivity in sublevel caving mines

    By G R. Power

    A useful way to assess potential productivity of SLC mines is by quantifying tonnes/drawpoint/day to be extracted from the mine. However limited industry information has been published to help mines b

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Martabe integrated life-of-mine optimisation

    By K J. Grohs

    Martabe gold and silver mine is situated in northern Sumatra and comprises several deposits in steep terrain that are required to be developed in the optimal sequence for the best possible Net Present

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Real time assessment of water content in icy regolith by analysing drilling parameters

    By D Joshi, J Rostami, M Karakus, A Eustes

    The first target of mining activities on the surface of the moon is to find and extract water from the icy regolith on the moon. A test drilling unit was designed and fabricated under a NASA Early Sta

    Sep 1, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    ROES® – Automated Rock Extraction

    By I Gipps

    A vision of what the future mine involves all aspects of mining, ie orebody access, ore stoping, material transport, processing and waste material disposal. This paper examines one aspect of the futur

    Nov 22, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Super-Scavenging of zinc Residue by the FASTFLOT Process at Pasmico Mining, Broken Hill

    By Fickera M. A, Marshall S, Burgeese F. L, Burgees J, Estrina H

    A new high intensity flotation process FASTFLOT was deployed to recover residual zinc from the zinc circuit tailings at Pasminco Mining's Concentrator, Broken Hill. Performance of the FASTFLOT

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    New insights into the relationships between sinter mineralogy and physical strength using QXRD and optical image analysis

    By M I. Pownceby, N A. S Webster, J R. Manuel, J M. F Clout, E Donskoi, N A. Ware

    The relative influences of sinter mineralogy, sintering temperature, solid and pore macro- and microstructure on iron ore sinter physical strength are not yet fully understood. Whilst a range of analy

    Sep 18, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Female Undergraduates in the Mining and Minerals Industry

    By J Meikle

    A projected image is not always a true representation of a situation, or indeed an industry. This is often the case of the mining and minerals industry, which has frequently been portrayed in a negati

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Characterising the Blasting Properties of Iron Ore

    By A Scott, I Onederra

    Most iron ores occur in mine benches as complex mixtures of lithologies and ore types. This significantly complicates their characterisation for both blast design and fragmentation modelling. A great

    Jul 13, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    A System of Diluting Methane to Safe Levels

    By R Hughes

    "Spring Creek Mine uses high pressure water to extract the thick Main seam in the Upper Rewanuicoal measures. The extraction method results in the creation of large voids which collapsespontaneously.

    Jun 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Development of a Corrosivity Classification for Weld Mesh Support at Cannington Mine

    Cannington Mine is an underground, hard rock, metalliferous mine located in North-Western Queensland, Australia. Weld mesh is installed to prevent the failure of rock from between the installed reinfo

    Nov 25, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    A System for Ore Tracking in Autonomous Mining

    By E Nettleton, A Melkumyan

    A probabilistic system for autonomous tracking of excavated ore in mining would be highly valuable. Currently, mine sites can have a vast array of sensors; examples include excavator load cells, bucke

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Solid bowl decanter centrifuges – the alternative technology

    By M Player, R Klug, N Schwarz

    There are several technologies available for thickening and dewatering of mining process slurries. The most commonly used are thickeners and filters, but technological developments have made solid bow

    Jul 1, 2021