Seventh International Mining Geology Conference Proceedings 2009 Dominy by Dominy, Simon (eds.) 9780471106937, 9781613442395, 0471106933, 1613442394 instant download after payment.

This 2009 conference was a unique event targeted directly at mining geologists, and was designed to review the advances in knowledge since the first meeting 19 years ago. The proceedings contain papers covering geological modelling, resource evaluation, underground and open pit grade control, project case studies, geometallurgy and new technologies. Case studies include projects in Australia, Canada, Finland, Ghana, Greenland, Indonesia, South Africa, New Zealand and United Kingdom, and cover commodities such as bauxite, coal, diamonds, gold, silver, poly-metallics (Ni-Cu-Co-Zn) and mineral sands.
Content:
Front Matter
• Table of Contents
•Section 1. Keynote Addresses 1. The Market, the Mining Geologist and Booms and Busts
2. Collaborating for Success - The Open Exploration Model
3. Rapid Three-Dimensional Modelling of Mine Geology - Structural Applications to the Globe-Progress Mine, West Coast, New Zealand
4. New Research Initiatives in Geometallurgical Integration - Moving Towards a Common Operating Language
•Section 2. General 5. The Use of Acoustic Scanner Results for Mine Design
6. Exploration of Coal Deposits
7. Geological Knowledge Management in the Australian Mining Industry
8. Reducing Costs in Resource Development - Can Geologists Learn from Manufacturers?
9. Mine Geology Skill Shortages, Churn and Mentoring - Ways to Improve Individual and Team Performance
10. Evaluation of Three-Dimensional Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry Systems for Terrestrial Surveying and Deformation Monitoring of Rock Faces and Highwalls in Mining Operations
11. Imaging an Orebody Ahead of Mining Using Borehole Radar at the Snap Lake Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada
12. Interpreting the Story of the Mining Landscape - Using Geotourism for Sustainable Community Development
13. The Effect of Downhole Survey Uncertainty on Modelled Volume
•Section 3. Geological Modelling 14. Kicking the Bucket - A Case Study of Evolving Domains and Geological Modelling, Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, Western Australia
15. New Value in Old Data - Three-Dimensional Modelling of Historical Mine Records
16. Mapping and Three-Dimensional Modelling of Structural Controls in the Chirano Gold Deposits, Ghana - Keys to Better Near-Mine Exploration Targeting
•Section 4. Geometallurgy 17. The Primary-Response Framework for Geometallurgical Variables
18. Geometallurgical Modelling - Quo Vadis?
19. Characterisation of Ore Crushability Using Petrophysical Properties
•Section 5. Open Pit Grade Control 20. Standardising the Reconciliation Factors Required in Governance Reporting
21. Ore Block Optimisation for Open Pit Grade Control
22. The Implications of Blast-Induced Movement to Grade Control
23. Geology, Grade Control and Reconciliation at the Douglas Mineral Sands Deposit
•Section 6. Project Case Studies 24. Understanding Geological Variability and Quantifying Resource Risk at the Kencana Underground Gold Mine, Indonesia
25. Analysis of Geological Mapping Data at the Cononish Gold-Silver Mine, Perthshire, Scotland
26. Outside the Dyke Bulge - The A1 Gold Mine Extension, Gaffneys Creek, Victoria
27. Mineral Sands - An Overview of the Industry
28. Voorspoed Diamond Mine - Challenges of Re-Opening a Historical Mine with an Inferred Resource
29. Musselwhite Mine - The History of a Giant Gold Deposit
30. Bioheapleaching of Black Schist-Hosted Nickel-Copper-Cobalt- Zinc Ore in Subarctic Conditions at Talvivaara, Finland
•Section 7. Resource Evaluation 31. Optimisation of the Drill Grid at the Weipa Bauxite Deposit Using Conditional Simulation
32. Recoverable Resource Estimation Using Bivariate Uniform Conditioning at the Lihir Gold Mine
33. Benchmarking Estimation Methods for Coal Resource Estimation
34. Desmoothing Block Models for Underground Mine Design
35. Confidence in Resource Estimates - Beyond Classification
36. Resource Estimation for the Aurukun Bauxite Deposit
•Section 8. Underground Grade Control 37. Grade Control Sampling Quality Assurance/Quality Control in a High-Grade Gold Mine - Gosowong, Indonesia
38. Grade Control in Underground Gold Vein Operations - The Role of Geological Mapping and Sampling
39. Development and Application of Macroscopic Geological Proxies for Gold Mineralisation in High Nugget Environments - An Example from the Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, Western Australia
40. Life on the Rollercoaster - Mining and Milling the Kencana K1 Orebody, Indonesia
Author Index