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  • AUSIMM
    Virtual Reality Scientific Visualisation – A Solution for Big Data Analysis of the Block Cave Mining System

    By J Tibbett, A Colebourn, B Hebblewhite, F Suorineni

    The concept of Big Data refers to data sets that are so large, variable and/or complex that traditional data processing applications struggle to integrate the data for effective investigation, analysi

    Nov 4, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Multivariable and Optimising Mill Control the South African Experience

    The grinding of ore to a size that is conducive to the extraction of minerals by leaching or flotation is an essential and expensive component of most mineral-processing operations. Overgrinding re

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    A High Temperature Vacuum Sintering Furnace

    Although developed primarily for sintering tantalum, the unit to be described can be used to heat-treat metals in the form ofa bar, wire or strip, by passing a current through them. The upper temperat

    Jan 1, 1946

  • AUSIMM
    Cap Rock Blasting Improvement at Worsley Alumina

    By L Neems

    In conjunction with Orica Explosives, Worsley Alumina have managed a program of continuous improvement to their cap rock blasting over the last two years. Blasting conditions are challenging because o

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding your work health and safety obligations – risk-based psychosocial safety: a framework for leaders and supervisors to demonstrate that they are working to meet their obligations

    By S Harrison

    Work health and safety duties around Australia include duties to manage psychosocial health and safety (mental health) of workers engaged by businesses or undertakings and of other persons impacted by

    Apr 16, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Estimating the Rock Mass Strength of Hawkesbury Sandstone

    By R Bertuzzi

    "This paper presents preliminary results of ongoing research being carried out at the University of New South Wales Australia (UNSW) into improved methods for estimating rock mass strength. In this pa

    Nov 5, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Downstream impacts of Grade Engineering and preconcentration

    By J Salaya, J Kwak, L Keeney, S Dehkhoda

    In addition to volatile commodity prices influencing decision making, in recent years, social and environmental performance have become important decision drivers within the mining industry. There are

    Nov 10, 2020

  • AUSIMM
    Process development for the Mina Justa project

    By I Ritchie, A Johnston, D Yataco

    Marcobre SAC (Marcobre) is developing the Mina Justa copper mine project, located in the Ica region of Peru. The Mina Justa IOCG orebody comprises of a sulfide mass overlain by an oxide cap with a sha

    Sep 11, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Understanding the causes of dilution in narrow vein stopes

    By S Thomas, S Ricketts, R Hassell

    Northern Star Resources (NSR) operates several operations utilising narrow vein stoping operations in the Kundana area. Stope dilution performance is variable across these operations, with unplanned d

    Mar 15, 2021

  • AUSIMM
    Non-Parametric Bayesian Learning for Resource Estimation in the Autonomous Mine

    By F Ramos

    Conventional techniques for resource estimation generally involve the laborious analysis of variograms and the specification of parameters for covariance functions. In large deposits, construction of

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    A Practical Method of Approach to the Problems of Mineral Flotation

    Response of a mineral to anionic and cationic flotation reagentsvaries with the nature of the mineral and the particle size. A ruleis deduced for the selection of the correct type of reagent, which le

    Jan 1, 1963

  • AUSIMM
    The Balma and Habgood Groups, Northern McArthur Basin, Northern Territory: Stratigraphy and Correlations with the McArthur Group

    By P W Haines

    The McArthur, Balma (new name) and Habgood Groups are thick (up to 4.5 km) correlative sequences of shallow water evaporitic carbonates, mudstones and sandstones that are exposed largely within the

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    Ventilation Design for Xstrata Copper's Ernest Henry Underground Project Prefeasibility Study

    The Ernest Henry Mine is an open pit copper-gold mining operation located in north-west Queensland, Australia. It is owned and operated by Xstrata Copper with a current concentrator throughput of appr

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    The Note on Further Consideration of Flooding and Hold-Up Phenomena in the Bosh

    By Warner RE

    SINCE 1952, when Elliott et a/ first applied the Sherwood correlation for flooding in chemical absorption towers to blast furnaces numerous investigators throughout the world have followed their ex

    Jan 1, 1975

  • AUSIMM
    Coal: Development of Nsw's Major Energy Resource

    The Energy Authority of NSW has wide powers and responsibilities conferred by its Act which are pertinent to the State's coal industry and its development into the next century. With respect

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Investigation into the Implementation of Sensor-based Ore Sorting Systems at a Block Caving Operation

    By D Elmo, M Scoble, Y Liu, B Klein, J Scholar, S Nadolski

    A cave-to-mill study being conducted at the New Afton block caving operation demonstrated the potential for sensor-based ore sorting equipment to reject waste and improve the grade of feed to the mill

    May 9, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Identity Crisis in the Copper Industry (dcdb222c-86b4-4eae-a24d-1e2dcb5e1879)

    Most publicity about the copper industry nowa- days is focused on the adequacy of ore reserves and on excessive mining capacity. These concerns, stemming from public awareness of actual and poten- t

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AUSIMM
    Airborne Gravity Gradiometry and Magnetics in the Search for Economic Iron Ore Deposits

    By R Miller

    The enrichment of magnetite to haematite and haematite-goethite leads to a coincident magnetic low and gravity high within the banded iron formation. Palaeochannel deposits of pisolitic limonite can b

    Jul 11, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Raise bore stability and risk assessment empirical database update

    By A Penney, M J. Pascoe, R M. Stephenson

    The empirical McCracken and Stacey stability and risk assessment method has been in use for more than 20 years to assess geotechnical stability issues for raise bored shafts. The methodology has been

    Nov 30, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Exploration and Mining on Aboriginal Land - Dispelling the Myths

    By D Pearce

    The 15-year long debate between the industry, Government and Aboriginal people about the rights and wrongs of Land Rights, the right of Aboriginal people to control development on their land and the

    Jan 1, 1994