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Published: 12 October 2020
Total: 687 items
MRIWA Education Program – Producing Research Champions to drive innovation in the WA mining industry
MRIWA’s new education program launched by the Hon. Bill Johnston MLA, Minister for Mines and Petroleum
Published: 6 October 2020
Enhanced stope design techniques deliver mine efficiency
Exciting research has delivered a practical new approach to planning and assessing the performance of underground blasting in developing mines
Published: 1 October 2020
Probabilistic stope design
The Challenge Despite representing an important influence on the profitability of safe modern underground mining methods, measurement of stope volume and its reconciliation against mine planning are generally poorly quantified…
Published: 30 September 2020
Stories of our Scholars – Dr Eunjoo Choi
Eunjoo Choi was awarded a MRIWA Scholarship in 2016 to undertake PhD studies at the University of Western Australia, where she investigated the geochemical and isotopic features of alkaline rocks…
Published: 14 September 2020
Novel seismic methodologies for exploration of mineral resources in a hypersaline environment
The Challenge Salt lakes represent highly prospective environments for mineral exploration, but deploying conventional seismic surveying technology in hyper-saline environments is challenging, inefficient and often leads to a permanent damage…
Published: 2 September 2020
Ground support systems optimisation – Phase 2: Extension to M431
The Challenge Ground support is one of the major costs in mining and it is of critical importance to mitigate the risk of rockfalls and maintain the safety of mine…
Published: 2 September 2020
Stories of our Scholars – Dr Eric May
Professor Eric May received a MRIWA Supplementary PhD Scholarship in 2000. Following the completion of his PhD, Eric has continued on to a stellar research career in the Australian oil…
Published: 2 September 2020
Rock properties to predict rockburst vulnerability in three dimensions
The Challenge Unpredictable rockburst and strainburst events create significant safety hazards for mining personnel and operations, however these phenomena are poorly understood. The challenge for this project was to understand…
Published: 27 August 2020
Safe, sustainable management of filtered tailings
The Challenge Recent catastrophic failures of tailings storage facilities around the world have increased interest in alternative approaches to tailings management. Although promising in this regard, the stacking of filtered…
Published: 27 August 2020
The paradigm shift for minerals exploration using ultrafine soils and intelligent data integration tools
The Challenge Soil geochemical exploration practices have changed little in decades, despite evolving need to investigate challenging areas covered by sediments. CSIRO have developed the UltraFine+TM workflow to optimise elemental…
Published: 24 August 2020
Evaluation of in-situ barrier technology for risk mitigation and extraction optimisation for in-situ-recovery operations
The Challenge The mining industry is increasingly acknowledging the opportunity to reconsider an in-situ recovery (ISR) approach for a broad range of mining activities. Risk mitigation associated with the potential…
Published: 28 July 2020