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  • AUSIMM
    Admixture use in cemented rock fill

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Unlocking value in drill and blast at Olympic Dam – Lime 390 case study

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    The Integration of Geometallurgy with Plant Design

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of the impact of modifying froth launders in an industrial flotation bank using novel flotation models

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Development of the production optimiser through collaboration between Evolution Mining and Minnovare

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Vibration energy harvesting for self-powered sensors at mine sites

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Optimisation of a Stochastic Rock Fracture Model Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Nova-Bollinger reconciliation and risk

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Geology and Grade Control at ERA - Ranger Mine, Northern Territory, Australia

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Tropicana - Unravelling the complexity of a +6 Million Ounce Gold Deposit Hosted in Granulite Facies Metamorphic Rocks

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    Rosebery Mine Exploration - Recent Successes

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    A geostatistical Approach to Coal Reserve Classification

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    A New Tool for Optimisation of Mine Waste Management in Potential Acid Forming Conditions

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Quantifying the energy efficiency transformation at Cadia due to HPGR crushing

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    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

  • AUSIMM
    Controlled Recirculation and Refrigeration at ValeÆs Taquari Potash Mine

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Development of solid waste-based flux and its application in out-offurnace dephosphorisation of low-silicon hot metal

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Strip and Line versus Blind Sink Shaft Sinking – The Ernest Henry Decision

    By 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

  • AUSIMM
    Intensity quantification of coal and rock burst risk – a review

    By 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