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Admixture use in cemented rock fillBy B Roache, J O’Brien, M Gray
Admixture use in cement products is commonplace in the construction and mining industries. Many Australian mines have an operational concrete batch plant and stock hydration control and water reducing
Nov 29, 2022
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Unlocking value in drill and blast at Olympic Dam – Lime 390 case studyBy P Vaikkattil, K Li, J Bullock
Unlocking maximum value is essential when designing a stope and the associated drill and blast packets. This is becoming increasingly important at Olympic Dam as the operation continues to expand sout
Mar 15, 2021
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The Integration of Geometallurgy with Plant DesignBy G Harbort
Traditional engineering design for flotation circuits use the “Rule of Thumb” approach. Typically this uses a nominated maximum head grade for design. A scale-up factor is applied to laboratory flotat
Aug 8, 2011
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Evaluation of the impact of modifying froth launders in an industrial flotation bank using novel flotation modelsBy A Yáñez, P Vallejos, R Grau, J Yianatos
In flotation cells, especially in large flotation units, froth management is a crucial variable that should be considered during the design phase or optimised to improve the performance of existing fl
Aug 24, 2022
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Development of the production optimiser through collaboration between Evolution Mining and MinnovareBy C McCracken, R Landers, B Hesse
Minnovare identified the potential to improve production drilling outcomes in underground long-hole stopes through the adaptation of new technology which was under ongoing development. An approach to
Mar 15, 2021
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Vibration energy harvesting for self-powered sensors at mine sitesBy H Zhang, M Karimi, M Hassan, S Saydam, B Li
With the prevalence of Mine Internet of Things (MIoT), different types of sensors have been widely deployed in mine sites for environmental monitoring and operational management. Currently, sensors in
Sep 1, 2024
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Optimisation of a Stochastic Rock Fracture Model Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo SimulationBy D Wyborn, P A. Dowd
The characterisation of rock fracture networks is an important component of rock engineering applications involving stability assessment or fluid flow analysis. However, the derivation of a reliable r
Sep 26, 2011
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Nova-Bollinger reconciliation and riskBy C Laming, P M. Hetherington, F A. Pym, M P. Murphy, K E. Crook
Reconciliation is a powerful tool used by mining operations to compare the mass and grade of ore produced with what was estimated before mining. The primary objective of reconciliation is to verify th
Mar 22, 2022
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Geology and Grade Control at ERA - Ranger Mine, Northern Territory, AustraliaBy P J Savory
Ranger is a uranium mining operation located within one of the most environmentally sensitive regions of Australia. Geology has played an important role in mine planning, operations and rehabilitati
Jan 1, 1994
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Tropicana - Unravelling the complexity of a +6 Million Ounce Gold Deposit Hosted in Granulite Facies Metamorphic RocksBy J Savage, A Crawford, M Doyle, N McNaughton, T G. Blenkinsop
Area selection criteria for gold exploration have historically highlighted the low prospectivity of high-metamorphic grade terranes relative to regions with lower metamorphic grades. The Tropicana gol
Sep 26, 2013
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ML and AI for resource estimation – what could possibly go wrong? Nothing! Everything!By M J. Nimmo
extremely powerful tools for building predictive and generative models. ML can be used for building highly accurate regression and classification models. But without careful data science and statistic
May 24, 2023
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Rosebery Mine Exploration - Recent SuccessesBy Hale C. T, Carnie W. A
Rosebery mine has had over 100 years of mining activity. The reserve has remained static for the last eight years with an expected mine life of six years. A move to rectify this was made in 1994 wit
Jan 1, 1997
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A geostatistical Approach to Coal Reserve ClassificationBy Just GD, Gillies ADS
There is an increasing need for reliable and comparable coal resource data and it is necessary to standardize the traditional classification procedures by quantifying the three basic evaluation crit
Jan 1, 1987
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A New Tool for Optimisation of Mine Waste Management in Potential Acid Forming ConditionsBy Y Li, Z Fu, D J. Williams, E Topal
Mine waste rock is unavoidable in the recovery of ore by open pit mining methods. Effective management of waste rock movement covers the removal and placement of the waste rock, generally in a surface
Jul 27, 2015
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Quantifying the energy efficiency transformation at Cadia due to HPGR crushingBy J Seppelt, G S. Lane, E Wang
Newcrest’s Cadia concentrator operated from 1998 to 2012 with a traditional SABC grinding circuit treating Cadia open pit ore. The Cadia comminution circuit was well characterised through surveys and
Aug 29, 2018
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Gippsland Basin South Platform: Unprospective or Underexplored?I The South Platform of the Gippsland Basin is an extensive area of shallow basement covered by a relatively-thin Late Mesozoic-Cainozoic section. Although the sporadic exploration to-date has not r
Jan 1, 1992
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Controlled Recirculation and Refrigeration at ValeÆs Taquari Potash MineBy S Bluhm, LádeáOliveira, R Funnell
Taquari Vasouras potash mine (Vale Fertilizantes) has many interesting features including virgin rock temperatures of 50¦C at depths of 700 m. The mine has a relatively small shaft system with limited
Jul 1, 2013
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Development of solid waste-based flux and its application in out-offurnace dephosphorisation of low-silicon hot metalBy Y Zhang, Z Zhao
The green production of the steelmaking process has urgent requirements for fluorine-free fluxes. In this article, a new solid waste-based slagging flux was applied in the external dephosphorisation t
Aug 21, 2024
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Strip and Line versus Blind Sink Shaft Sinking – The Ernest Henry DecisionBy C J. Carr
The Ernest Henry Mine (EHM) is owned and operated by Xstrata Copper and is located in North-West Queensland, Australia. The mine is currently undergoing a transition from an 11 Mtpa open pit mine to a
Mar 21, 2011
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Intensity quantification of coal and rock burst risk – a reviewBy C Zhang, I Canbulat, G Fan, D Zhang, C Wang
A clear understanding of the intensity of coal and rock burst is the basis for future research on burst mechanism and control. There has been a wide variety in the description of coal and rock burst d
Nov 30, 2018