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Journal articles on the topic "Australian minerals industry":
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Kondratiev, V. B. "Australian Mining Industry: Positions and Perspectives." Mining Industry Journal (Gornay Promishlennost), no. 1/2022 (March 15, 2022): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.30686/1609-9192-2022-1-91-102.
Abstract:
Australia has a world-leading mining industry as a producer for some 16 commodities including gold, bauxite, iron ore, rare earths, zinc, nickel and coal. In 2021, Australia’s mineral exports (excluding petroleum products) amounted to $200 billion which was 58% of all good’s export and 46% of all exported goods and services. In 2021, mining accounted for more than 10% of gross national product. In addition, the mining industry employed some 240 000 people, with many more employed by related industries. Australia is richly endowed with many minerals, that are regarded as critical, or strategic, minerals by many trading partners. Growing markets for these commodities, particularly for those associated with emerging technologies such as battery storage, renewable energy and electric vehicles have stimulated exploration and resource delineation in Australia in recent years
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Satchwell, Ian. "Australian Minerals Industry Code for Environmental Management." Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 4, no. 1 (January 1997): 6–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14486563.1997.10648367.
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Reid, K. "Alan Forrest Reid 1931–2013." Historical Records of Australian Science 27, no. 2 (2016): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr15011.
Abstract:
Dr Alan Reid is remembered as the founding father of automated mineralogy. He achieved international recognition as a research scientist, and was also a visionary leader within CSIRO, Australia's largest scientific organization. Reid contributed a distinguished body of basic research to solid state chemistry, publishing on organometallics, thermodynamics, crystal structures, high pressure minerals and mineral processing. He went on to lead development of processes that greatly benefited industry. These included the solar absorber surface AMCRO, and the QEM*SEM analysis that automatically characterized mineral assemblages. As an Institute Director at CSIRO he made important contributions to the structure and business processes of the organization, during a period of upheaval unprecedented in its history. It was Reid's leadership and perseverance that led to the establishment of the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies, the Australian Resources Research Centre in Western Australia, and major redevelopment of the CSIRO site at North Ryde in NSW. A master of broad collaboration with researchers, academics, companies and government agencies, when he retired from CSIRO Reid further benefited Australian science as a consultant to government and industry. The mineral reidite, a high pressure phase of ZrSiO4, is named after this tireless polymath.
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Bell, L. Clive. "ADDRESSING ACID DRAINAGE IN THE AUSTRALIAN MINERALS INDUSTRY." Journal American Society of Mining and Reclamation 2006, no. 2 (June 30, 2006): 90–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.21000/jasmr06020090.
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Hartwell, John. "2009 Release of offshore petroleum exploration acreage." APPEA Journal 49, no. 1 (2009): 463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj08030.
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John Hartwell is Head of the Resources Division in the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Canberra Australia. The Resources Division provides advice to the Australian Government on policy issues, legislative changes and administrative matters related to the petroleum industry, upstream and downstream and the coal and minerals industries. In addition to his divisional responsibilities, he is the Australian Commissioner for the Australia/East Timor Joint Petroleum Development Area and Chairman of the National Oil and Gas Safety Advisory Committee. He also chairs two of the taskforces, Clean Fossil Energy and Aluminium, under the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate (AP6). He serves on two industry and government leadership groups delivering reports to the Australian Government, strategies for the oil and gas industry and framework for the uranium industry. More recently he led a team charged with responsibility for taking forward the Australian Government’s proposal to establish a global carbon capture and storage institute. He is involved in the implementation of a range of resource related initiatives under the Government’s Industry Action Agenda process, including mining and technology services, minerals exploration and light metals. Previously he served as Deputy Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council and the Commonwealth representative to the Natural Gas Pipelines Advisory Committee. He has occupied a wide range of positions in the Australian Government dealing with trade, commodity, and energy and resource issues. He has worked in Treasury, the Department of Trade, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of Primary Industries and Energy before the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. From 1992–96 he was a Minister Counsellor in the Australian Embassy, Washington, with responsibility for agriculture and resource issues and also served in the Australian High Commission, London (1981–84) as the Counsellor/senior trade relations officer. He holds a MComm in economics, and Honours in economics from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Prior to joining the Australian Government, worked as a bank economist. He was awarded a public service medal in 2005 for his work on resources issues for the Australian Government.
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Bartholomew, Iain. "The australian minerals industry-resources for the 21st century." RESOURCES PROCESSING 42, no. 1 (1995): 44–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4144/rpsj1986.42.44.
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Cote, C. M., C. J. Moran, J. Cummings, and K. Ringwood. "Developing a water accounting framework for the australian minerals industry." Mining Technology 118, no. 3-4 (September 2009): 162–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174328610x12682159814948.
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Cucuzza, J. "MULTI-CLIENT COLLABORATIVE R&D CONTRIBUTING TO NATIONAL PROSPERITY: A TALE OF TWO INDUSTRIES." APPEA Journal 38, no. 1 (1998): 794. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj97053.
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The business landscape has undergone some significant changes over the last several years. Accompanying these changes has been an alignment of corporate R&D with business goals. This has resulted in significant downsizing of corporate research laboratories and the devolving responsibility for R&D matters to operating sites or business units. The downside of this is that the operations are now more than ever focussing on productivity, industrial relations and other essential short-term profitability-motivated issues. Consequently, the changing environment is creating cultures that value and reward short-term results. This short-termism has important implications to industry and the research community.One of the more successful and cost-effective mechanisms by which Australia can enhance its R&D base and consequent prosperity is through collaborative R&D. The Australian Minerals Industries Research Association (AMIRA), together with its oil and gas Division APIRA, has demonstrated over the years how effective this can be. AMIRA's raison d'etre is to assist the resource industries improve their technology position through collaborative R&D. It achieves this by working closely with researchers and industry to identify areas of common interest, develop research proposals, and seek financial support for these proposals from industry. Once a project commences, the Association administers the financial and reporting aspects, as well as monitoring progress, organising progress review meetings and assisting in technology transfer. AMIRA/APIRA has the track record, the systems and expertise to facilitate and manage collaborative R&D focussing on industry needs.The evolution of the Australian collaborative R&D environment in the oil and gas and minerals sectors has been significantly different. The oil and gas industry, particularly in exploration, does not have a history of strong collaborative R&D in Australia. The reasons for this are varied and can be found in the different corporate cultures between mineral and oil and gas companies.
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Cook, P. J., A. Rigg, and J. Bradshaw. "PUTTING IT BACKWHERE IT CAME FROM: IS GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE AN OPTION FOR AUSTRALIA?" APPEA Journal 40, no. 1 (2000): 654. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj99045.
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Liquefied natural gas projects with a total value of around $20 billion are planned for Australia. Over the next decade or so, they have the potential to generate an increase of approximately 3% in Australia's GDP, and an excess of 50,000 jobs. One of the major risks to this vast investment is uncertainty over how to deal with the major increase in direct carbon dioxide (C02) emissions that will result from these developments. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol has served to focus even more attention on this issue.Potentially, a solution to sustaining Australia's economic development, whilst at the same time meeting emission targets, may lie, in part, in developing suitable methodologies for C02 sequestration. One of the key sequestration options is geological disposal. The method, which involves injection of supercritical C02 into the deep subsurface, is being tested on a commercial scale in only one place in the world at the present time, although several other countries are now developing research programs into the technique.The APCRC research program GEODISC is investigating the applicability of this method in Australia. Whilst the focus of GEODISC is on the application of C02 disposal to the Australian natural gas industry, its outcomes will have implications for other industries such as power generation and minerals processing. It will also be looking at some of the other potential benefits of geological sequestration, such as enhanced oil recovery and enhanced coalbed methane recovery.The program will establish the most viable locations for C02 injection, determine the key areas of technical, social and economic risk, and help define a pilot injection program to address the most critical areas of uncertainty. GEODISC brings together six major petroleum companies, the Australian Greenhouse Office and key Australian research groups. The total cost of GEODISC will be approximately $10 million over four years. The major expected outcome of GEODISC will be to help the Australian gas industry plan the way ahead in terms of C02 emissions in an environmentally acceptable manner, whilst concurrently ensuring that the industry does not incur major cost disadvantages, which may adversely impact upon Australia's international competitiveness.
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van Beers, D., G. D. Corder, A. Bossilkov, and R. van Berkel. "Regional synergies in the Australian minerals industry: Case-studies and enabling tools." Minerals Engineering 20, no. 9 (August 2007): 830–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2007.04.001.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Australian minerals industry":
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Lodhia, Sumit, and sumit lodhia@anu edu au. "The World Wide Web and Environmental Communication: A study into current practices in the Australian Minerals Industry." The Australian National University. Faculty of Economics and Commerce, 2007. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20080506.164718.
Abstract:
This thesis explores the factors that influence the extent to which the World Wide Web
(henceforth web) is utilised by corporations in an environmentally sensitive industry to
communicate with their stakeholders in relation to environmental issues. The study
initially establishes, in theory, the communication potential of the web and possible
factors which can impact on the extent to which this potential is utilised for
environmental communication. Subsequently, it examines the use of the web by specific
companies in the Australian minerals industry for communicating environmental issues
to their stakeholders over time. Explanations for current practices are established
through an analysis of the impact of the factors established in theory on web based
environmental communication in the Australian minerals industry.¶
A model was established to guide the research process for this study. Drawing upon
media richness theory (Daft & Lengel, 1984, 1986; Sproull, 1991; Valacich et al.,
1993), the Media Richness Framework was developed to provide criteria for assessing
the communication potential of the web. It was also posited that the extent to which this
potential is utilised in practice is dependent on managements web based
communication needs. These needs incorporate timeliness, accessibility, presentation
and organisation, and interaction. Contextual factors, which include limitations of web
based technologies, economic, internal organisational and external stakeholder issues,
influence these needs.¶
Case study research (Hagg & Hedlund, 1979; Yin, 2003a, 2003b; Scapens, 2004) was
used as the methodological approach for this thesis in order to obtain an in-depth
understanding of current web based environmental communication practices. An
evaluation of the websites of mining companies was used as the basis for selecting three
companies as cases. These cases involved a triangulation of approaches towards data
collection: monitoring corporate websites on a regular basis; interviewing appropriate
personnel in these organisations; and evaluating documents related to the companies
environmental communication practice. Data gathered from interviews, websites and
documents were analysed for individual cases and then through cross-case comparisons.
The intention was to confirm the research model and to potentially extend it through a
consideration of other factors not identified in theory but evident in current practices.¶
The findings of this research indicate that even though the web has the potential to
enhance environmental communication in an environmentally sensitive industry that is
subject to extensive stakeholder pressures, there is variation in its use by companies in
the Australian minerals industry. An evaluation of the practices of the three chosen
companies highlighted that while the web is used extensively by these companies in
comparison with other corporations in the industry, the case study companies were at
different stages of web based environmental communication.¶
Managements web based environmental communication needs and the influence of
contextual factors on these needs explained the variation in web based environmental
communication across all three companies. Moreover, two other factors emerged from
the field; these are referred to as the double-edged sword and change in management
philosophy. These findings from the field highlight that the need for communication
through the web could have unintended consequences while a change in management
could alter the current approach towards web based environmental communication.¶
This study into the use of the web in the Australian minerals industry highlights that the
medium has an impact on environmental communication practice. Further research
could assess the communication potential of the various media used for environmental
communication in order to extend the explanatory power of the current study. This
study also outlines arguments in support of extending theorisation in environmental
communication. Existing theories for social and environmental accounting, such as
stakeholder and legitimacy theory (Roberts, 1992; Lindblom, 1993; Deegan, 2002) need
to be accompanied by other theoretical perspectives in order to capture a range of
potential factors that could impact environmental communication practices. Such
insights could provide a comprehensive understanding of environmental communication
in different contexts.
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Lodhia, Sumit K. "The World Wide Web and environmental communication : a study into current practices in the Australian minerals industry /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2007. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20080506.164718/index.html.
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Parkin, Raymond John Mining Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "The impact of legislation and other factors on the safety performance of Australian coal mines." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Mining Engineering, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43757.
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The theme of the thesis is to investigate the current safety paradigm in the Australian coal mining industry and establish if the safety performance is improving. The number of fatalities, serious bodily injuries and high potential injuries is unsatisfactory according to community standards. People are still being killed and there is little evidence of a sustained improvement trend over the last decade. Lost time injuries have reduced dramatically, but are now plateauing and over the last few years along with high potential injuries and other safety indicators are trending upwards. This research has found that hundreds of serious injuries are not being reported which would have a significant effect on safety indicators in the Industry. Fatigue and awareness issues as well as travel times to work are having a major impact on safety at work, which is particularly evident when employees are working 12-hour shifts. The rapid expansion of the mining industry has required the growing use of contractors, hence creating a more inexperienced workforce. Another significant finding is that there is a close association between the level of fatalities recorded and the growing use of contract labour in the industry. This research has demonstrated that the current approach to prosecution is counter productive, as it inhibits thorough safety investigation and creates a defensive rather than a proactive safety culture. This approach has resulted in unwillingness by companies to examine the root causes of accidents and incidents for the fear of being prosecuted. This research has shown there is a lack of trust between mining companies, the unions and the inspectorate. It has been stated that miners lives are at risk because of the shortage of Inspectors in Queensland and that the inspectorate was not meeting its compliance obligations. There is a "disconnect" between what mining companies aspire to achieve at the corporate level with their safety management systems and what is achieved at the coal face. The thesis has demonstrated that safety performance is deteriorating and in order to improve this situation recommendations have been made regarding prosecution, contractors, fatigue, safety and health management systems, hours of work, audits and remuneration for inspectors.
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Koeyers, J. E. "An assessment of some occupational health and safety issues in the mineral sands industry of Western Australia." Thesis, Koeyers, J.E. (1996) An assessment of some occupational health and safety issues in the mineral sands industry of Western Australia. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51311/.
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The presence of traces of thorium and uranium in heavy mineral sands, and in the dust, dirt and tailings generated by the separation and concentration of these minerals causes radiation health problems in the workplace of the mineral sands industry. These problems include health risks from external exposure of workers to gamma radiation and internal exposure to alpha, beta and gamma radiation from inhaled and/or ingested radioactive dust.
This thesis reports on the recent advances in the scientific understanding of, and epidemiological research in regard to, health risks from exposure of workers and the public to ionising radiation. It considers the subsequent revision of the biological model of human thorium metabolism and the updating of radiation health risk assessment methodologies and recommendations in regard to radiation exposure limits of workers and the public by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). The thesis considers subsequent changes in existing legislation and regulations for the industry in regard to radiation monitoring, dust control and radiation exposure assessment procedures.
It deals with problems faced by industrial management to comply with a tightening of regulations and directives in regard to adherence to radiation safety standards, improvements in the monitoring and control of radioactive dust in the workplace, and new methodologies of radiation risk assessment for workers in the industry. The practicality of conducting an epidemiological study on past and present workers employed in the industry' is also considered.
The thesis considers the possibility that mineral sands workers may also be exposed to substantial doses of non-ionising radiation associated with electric power at the extremely low frequency of 50 Hz. Furthermore, the thesis deals with reports on health risks for laboratory personnel due possibly to skin contact with, or the inhalation of fumes emitted by, toxic volatile liquids used in laboratory procedures.
Many of the definitions and scientific/technical and medical aspects relevant to matters dealt with in the thesis have been discussed more fully in four supporting papers which have been published separately. The cut-off point of reporting on currently-published research data, comments and reviews in regard to matters dealt with in the thesis is October 1995.
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Mouat, Jeremy. "Mining in the settler dominions : a comparative study of the industry in three communities from the 1880s to the First World War." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29037.
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This dissertation examines the evolution of the mining industry in three British dominions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adopting a case study approach, it describes the establishment and growth of mining in Rossland, British Columbia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; and Waihi, New Zealand.
Separate chapters trace developments in each area, focussing on the emergence of organised labour, the growth of mining companies and the sophistication of mining operations. These underline the need to consider diverse themes, maintaining that the mining industry's pattern of growth can be understood only by adopting such a broad approach. Following the three case studies, the final chapters of the dissertation offer a comparative analysis of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill. The study emphasises the similarities of these three communities, especially the cycle of growth, and identifies a crucial common denominator.
Despite differences in climate, in the type and nature of the ore deposit and in the scale of mining activity, all three areas experienced a common trajectory of initial boom followed by subsequent retrenchment. The changing character of the resource base forced this fundamental alteration of productive relations. In each region, the mineral content of the ore declined as the mines went deeper. In addition, with depth the ore tended to become more difficult to treat. Faced with a decline in the value of the product of their mines, companies had to adopt sweeping changes in order to maintain profitable operations. This re-structuring was accomplished in a variety of ways, but the most significant factors, common to Rossland, Broken Hill and Waihi, were the heightened importance of applied science and economies of scale. Both developments underlined the growing importance of the mining engineer and technological innovations, principally in milling and smelting operations. In addition, new non-selective extractive techniques reduced the significance of skilled underground labour.
The re-structuring of the industry not only had similar causes but also had a similar effect. The comparative chapter on labour relations, for example, argues that these managerial initiatives were closely associated with militant episodes in each community. While the leading companies in Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill successfully reduced their working costs, they all faced the same ultimate end. Their long-term success or failure reflected the skill with which they coped with the inevitable depletion of their ore body.
The common experience of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill demonstrates the importance of placing colonial development within a larger context. Regional historians should make greater use of the comparative approach, rather than continuing to focus on the unique and the particular.Arts, Faculty of
History, Department of
Graduate
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Harrison, Christopher Bernard. "Feasibility of rock characterization for mineral exploration using seismic data." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/999.
Abstract:
The use of seismic methods in hard rock environments in Western Australia for mineral exploration is a new and burgeoning technology. Traditionally, mineral exploration has relied upon potential field methods and surface prospecting to reveal shallow targets for economic exploitation. These methods have been and will continue to be effective but lack lateral and depth resolution needed to image deeper mineral deposits for targeted mining. With global need for minerals, and gold in particular, increasing in demand, and with shallower targets harder to find, new methods to uncover deeper mineral reserves are needed. Seismic reflection imaging, hard rock borehole data analysis, seismic inversion and seismic attribute analysis all give the spatial and volumetric exploration techniques the mineral industry can use to reveal high value deeper mineral targets.In 2002, two high resolution seismic lines, the East Victory and Intrepid, were acquired along with sonic logging, to assess the feasibility of seismic imaging and rock characterisation at the St. Ives gold camp in Western Australia. An innovative research project was undertaken combining seismic processing, rock characterization, reflection calibration, seismic inversion and seismic attribute analysis to show that volumetric predictions of rock type and gold-content may be viable in hard rock environments. Accurate seismic imaging and reflection identification proved to be challenging but achievable task in the all-out hard rock environment of the Yilgarn craton. Accurate results were confounded by crocked seismic line acquisition, low signal-to-noise ratio, regolith distortions, small elastic property variations in the rock, and a limited volume of sonic logging. Each of these challenges, however, did have a systematic solution which allowed for accurate results to be achieved.Seismic imaging was successfully completed on both the East Victory and Intrepid data sets revealing complex structures in the Earth as shallow as 100 metres to as deep as 3000 metres. The successful imaging required homogenization of the regolith to eliminate regolith travel-time distortions and accurate constant velocity analysis for reflection focusing using migration. Verification of the high amplitude reflections within each image was achieved through integration of surface geological and underground mine data as well as calibration with log derived synthetic seismograms. The most accurate imaging results were ultimately achieved on the East Victory line which had good signal-to-noise ratio and close-to-straight data acquisition direction compared to the more crooked Intrepid seismic line.The sonic logs from both the East Victory and Intrepid seismic lines were comprehensively analysed by re-sampling and separating the data based on rock type, structure type, alteration type, and Au assay. Cross plotting of the log data revealed statistically accurate separation between harder and softer rocks, as well as sheared and un-sheared rock, were possible based solely on compressional-wave, shear-wave, density, acoustic and elastic impedance. These results were used successfully to derive empirical relationships between seismic attributes and geology. Calibrations of the logs and seismic data provided proof that reflections, especially high-amplitude reflections, correlated well with certain rock properties as expected from the sonic data, including high gold content sheared zones. The correlation value, however, varied with signal-to-noise ratio and crookedness of the seismic line. Subsequent numerical modelling confirmed that separating soft from hard rocks can be based on both general reflectivity pattern and impedance contrasts.Indeed impedance inversions on the calibrated seismic and sonic data produced reliable volumetric separations between harder rocks (basalt and dolerite) and softer rock (intermediate intrusive, mafic, and volcaniclastic). Acoustic impedance inversions produced the most statistically valid volumetric predictions with the simultaneous use of acoustic and elastic inversions producing stable separation of softer and harder rocks zones. Similarly, Lambda-Mu-Rho inversions showed good separations between softer and harder rock zones. With high gold content rock associated more with “softer” hard rocks and sheared zones, these volumetric inversion provide valuable information for targeted mining. The geostatistical method applied to attribute analysis, however, was highly ambiguous due to low correlations and thus produced overly generalized predictions. Overall reliability of the seismic inversion results were based on quality and quantity of sonic data leaving the East Victory data set, again with superior results as compared to the Intrepid data set.In general, detailed processing and analysis of the 2D seismic data and the study of the relationship between the recorded wave-field and rock properties measured from borehole logs, core samples and open cut mining, revealed that positive correlations can be developed between the two. The results of rigorous research show that rock characterization using seismic methodology will greatly benefit the mineral industry.
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Muñoz, González Alexis Ruddy. "Estrategia de Globalización en el Mercado Australiano para la Empresa Chilena Ingeniería y Construcciones Mas Errázuriz S.A." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2009. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/102024.
Abstract:
El objetivo principal de este estudio es proponer una estrategia de globalización
en Australia para la empresa chilena Mas Errázuriz, en servicios de ingeniería y
construcción subterráneos para la minería, donde la empresa posee mayor experiencia
y competencia. Esto con la finalidad de explorar áreas donde Chile tiene claras ventajas
competitivas, como lo son la minería y exportación de servicios que inducen la
exportación de otros bienes; y en un país líder y estable como Australia donde las
relaciones comerciales y de colaboración se ven muy promisorias.
El esquema metodológico esta basado en cuatro frentes de análisis con los
cuales se desprende y sugiere una estrategia. El primero es el análisis de la empresa
que incluye la descripción del negocio, los pilares que la sustentan y su análisis FODA;
luego el análisis de Australia desde el punto de vista político, económico y empresarial;
en tercer lugar un análisis de la industria de minería subterránea en Australia de
acuerdo a las cinco fuerzas de Porter; y finalmente un análisis de la demanda
estimando un mercado potencial y asignándole grados de éxito a cada proyecto.
El estudio de la demanda es analizado con la última actualización de proyectos
de la organización australiana ABARE de Abril 2008, que incluye todo un record de 341
proyectos. Se acota el análisis a los que aún no están en construcción, y en los estados
de Western Australia y Queensland con el 80% de los proyectos totales.
Como conclusión se recomienda explorar el mercado australiano donde los años
2010 y 2011 presentan un mejor escenario considerando una sensibilización de la
actual crisis financiera. La nueva estrategia se recomienda que no sea excluyente sino
consistente a la actual estrategia en America Latina. Dado que la empresa no es líder y
Australia es un complejo mercado se recomienda no entrar sólo sino a través de un
socio local para capturar los importantes efectos de red, disminuir el riesgo, acceso a
mercados y aumentar las transferencias de conocimientos entre otros.
Finalmente el posicionamiento con un gobierno corporativo, el medio ambiente y
la responsabilidad social empresarial como eje de su estrategia, permitiría además
explotar los cambios del sector y ser un blanco de interés factible para las empresas
australianas que también buscan empresas chilenas bien posicionadas, serias y con
ventajas frente a otros competidores locales.
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Harrison, Christopher Bernard. "Feasibility of rock characterization for mineral exploration using seismic data." Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia School of Mines, Department of Exploration Geophysics, 2009. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=129417.
Abstract:
The use of seismic methods in hard rock environments in Western Australia for mineral exploration is a new and burgeoning technology. Traditionally, mineral exploration has relied upon potential field methods and surface prospecting to reveal shallow targets for economic exploitation. These methods have been and will continue to be effective but lack lateral and depth resolution needed to image deeper mineral deposits for targeted mining. With global need for minerals, and gold in particular, increasing in demand, and with shallower targets harder to find, new methods to uncover deeper mineral reserves are needed. Seismic reflection imaging, hard rock borehole data analysis, seismic inversion and seismic attribute analysis all give the spatial and volumetric exploration techniques the mineral industry can use to reveal high value deeper mineral targets.In 2002, two high resolution seismic lines, the East Victory and Intrepid, were acquired along with sonic logging, to assess the feasibility of seismic imaging and rock characterisation at the St. Ives gold camp in Western Australia. An innovative research project was undertaken combining seismic processing, rock characterization, reflection calibration, seismic inversion and seismic attribute analysis to show that volumetric predictions of rock type and gold-content may be viable in hard rock environments. Accurate seismic imaging and reflection identification proved to be challenging but achievable task in the all-out hard rock environment of the Yilgarn craton. Accurate results were confounded by crocked seismic line acquisition, low signal-to-noise ratio, regolith distortions, small elastic property variations in the rock, and a limited volume of sonic logging. Each of these challenges, however, did have a systematic solution which allowed for accurate results to be achieved.
Seismic imaging was successfully completed on both the East Victory and Intrepid data sets revealing complex structures in the Earth as shallow as 100 metres to as deep as 3000 metres. The successful imaging required homogenization of the regolith to eliminate regolith travel-time distortions and accurate constant velocity analysis for reflection focusing using migration. Verification of the high amplitude reflections within each image was achieved through integration of surface geological and underground mine data as well as calibration with log derived synthetic seismograms. The most accurate imaging results were ultimately achieved on the East Victory line which had good signal-to-noise ratio and close-to-straight data acquisition direction compared to the more crooked Intrepid seismic line.
The sonic logs from both the East Victory and Intrepid seismic lines were comprehensively analysed by re-sampling and separating the data based on rock type, structure type, alteration type, and Au assay. Cross plotting of the log data revealed statistically accurate separation between harder and softer rocks, as well as sheared and un-sheared rock, were possible based solely on compressional-wave, shear-wave, density, acoustic and elastic impedance. These results were used successfully to derive empirical relationships between seismic attributes and geology. Calibrations of the logs and seismic data provided proof that reflections, especially high-amplitude reflections, correlated well with certain rock properties as expected from the sonic data, including high gold content sheared zones. The correlation value, however, varied with signal-to-noise ratio and crookedness of the seismic line. Subsequent numerical modelling confirmed that separating soft from hard rocks can be based on both general reflectivity pattern and impedance contrasts.
Indeed impedance inversions on the calibrated seismic and sonic data produced reliable volumetric separations between harder rocks (basalt and dolerite) and softer rock (intermediate intrusive, mafic, and volcaniclastic). Acoustic impedance inversions produced the most statistically valid volumetric predictions with the simultaneous use of acoustic and elastic inversions producing stable separation of softer and harder rocks zones. Similarly, Lambda-Mu-Rho inversions showed good separations between softer and harder rock zones. With high gold content rock associated more with “softer” hard rocks and sheared zones, these volumetric inversion provide valuable information for targeted mining. The geostatistical method applied to attribute analysis, however, was highly ambiguous due to low correlations and thus produced overly generalized predictions. Overall reliability of the seismic inversion results were based on quality and quantity of sonic data leaving the East Victory data set, again with superior results as compared to the Intrepid data set.
In general, detailed processing and analysis of the 2D seismic data and the study of the relationship between the recorded wave-field and rock properties measured from borehole logs, core samples and open cut mining, revealed that positive correlations can be developed between the two. The results of rigorous research show that rock characterization using seismic methodology will greatly benefit the mineral industry.
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Devenin, Vera Verónica. "Responsabilidad social corporativa y producción de un espacio minero. Un análisis de 23 grandes yacimientos de cobre en el mundo (2006-2010), con énfasis en Chile y Australia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/293043.
Abstract:
El incremento significativo de proyectos mineros de las últimas décadas, particularmente en los países del Sur, ha puesto de relieve la magnitud de los impactos socio-ambientales que esta actividad conlleva. Ante esta evidencia, la industria minera, para alcanzar una licencia social para operar, ha desarrollado de forma sistemática programas de responsabilidad social corporativa en las comunidades cercanas a sus lugares de operación. Esta tesis aborda los efectos que éstas iniciativas tienen en el territorio en los que se llevan a cabo, postulando que la acción conjunta de los impactos socio-ambientales y de las acciones de responsabilidad social corporativa tienden a producir un espacio minero.
La aproximación teórica utilizada fue la producción del espacio de Henry Lefebvre, estableciendo que este espacio minero se constituye a partir de las transformaciones de la naturaleza, escenario base del espacio social; las prácticas espaciales, referido a los usos y relaciones dentro del espacio; y la representación del espacio, es decir, la conceptualización, los conocimientos y saberes que se aplican al espacio y a sus elementos.
La metodología utilizada para abordar la investigación fue una triangulación de métodos. Por una parte se realizó un análisis cualitativo de las acciones de responsabilidad social corporativa, que fuesen factibles de observar y de medir, correspondientes a 23 grandes yacimientos de cobre a nivel mundial para un periodo de cinco años, desde 2006 a 2010. Por otra parte, para contrarrestar la unilateralidad de los reportes de sustentabilidad, única fuente de información disponible acerca de las acciones de responsabilidad social corporativa, así como para enriquecer la interpretación de los datos, se realizó trabajo de campo. Éste consistió en observación y entrevistas semi-dirigidas a 48 personas pertenecientes a distintos ámbitos en torno a cuatro yacimientos de cobre en Chile y dos en Australia.
En términos de resultados, la tesis presenta, en primer lugar, una amplia descripción de las iniciativas de responsabilidad corporativa que llevan a cabo los grandes yacimientos mineros, en este caso de cobre, en el ámbito ambiental: agua, aire, biodiversidad, energía y suelo; así como en el ámbito social: deporte, cultura y recreación, educación, educación ambiental, empleo y desarrollo productivo, grupos en situación de mayor vulnerabilidad, influencia estratégica, participación de la comunidad, patrimonio arqueológico y cultural, promoción de la minería, salud, vivienda y urbanismo, y comunidades indígenas. Esta descripción incluye las dinámicas que se generan en las comunidades a partir tanto de los impactos de la minería como de las iniciativas de responsabilidad social corporativa descritas.
A partir de lo anterior, y basado en los postulados de Henry Lefebvre, la tesis propone la caracterización y el desarrollo del concepto de espacio minero, entendido éste como un espacio social dominado que contiene características identificables en múltiples contextos, que puede ser coherente o contradictorio, y cuyo radio de influencia se extiende a las comunidades adyacentes a la mina, al centro urbano más cercano capaz de entregarle servicios a la industria, hasta la zona de salida del producto minero, por lo general el puerto.
La tesis presenta además un análisis de las acciones de responsabilidad social corporativa en los casos en los que se realizó trabajo de campo, dando cuenta de las especificidades que adquiere en distintos contextos y escenarios espaciales.
A modo de conclusión, la tesis plantea que la responsabilidad social corporativa, en la medida que se encuentre acoplada a planes de desarrollo local, se puede constituir como un mecanismo efectivo para que las comunidades reciban beneficios de la industria minera. Por el contrario, en aquellos casos que no está acoplada a planes de desarrollo local, las tensiones que existen entre comunidad y minería tienden a mantenerse o incluso a intensificarse.The thesis considers that both the socio-environmental impact of mining and the actions of corporate social responsibility together produce a mining space. To develop this argument, the conceptual framework used was the production of the space by Henry Lefebvre, and a qualitative analysis was made of the actions of corporate social responsibility of 23 large copper mines in the world for a period of five years (2006-2010), as well as field work (observation and interviews) around six sites in Chile and Australia. The results of the thesis first of all present a broad description of the initiatives of corporate responsibility carried out by the large mining sites in the area of the environment (water, air, biodiversity, energy and soil) and in the social area (sport, culture and recreation, education, environmental education, employment and productive development, groups in a situation of greater vulnerability, strategic influence, community participation, archaeological and cultural heritage, promotion of mining, health, housing and urban development, and indigenous communities). This description includes the dynamics produced in the communities from both the impacts of mining and the described corporate social responsibility initiatives. Secondly, the thesis presents a characterisation of the mining space in terms of the transformations it implies in nature, the base scenario of the social space; the spatial practices, referring to the uses and relations within the space, and the representation of the space, in other words the conceptualization, the knowledge and wisdom applied to the space and to its elements. This characterization is used to develop the concept of mining space. Finally, the thesis presents the strategies of corporate social responsibility distinguishing between spatial scenarios by using the experience of the fieldwork. As a conclusion, the thesis considers that corporate social responsibility, being connected to local development plans, may be constituted as an effective mechanism for communities to receive benefits from the mining industry.
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Cortez, Febres Jaime Arturo. "Diseño e implementación de un programa de mejora continua para minería: Mina Blair Athol, Río Tinto Coal Australia." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/18990.
Abstract:
En línea con la Industria y Comercio mundiales, la minería moderna se ha visto en la
necesidad de implementar programas estructurados de Mejora Continua ante la necesidad de
optimizar el uso de sus recursos. En el sector de recursos naturales, tener costos bajos es
imperativo (de ser posible ubicarse en el 1er cuartil de costos), dada la naturaleza cíclica de
los precios de los commoditites.
El presente reporte es sobre mi experiencia profesional como Analista Senior de
Mejora Continua para la mina de carbón Blair Athol, propiedad de Rio Tinto Coal Australia,
en el estado de Queensland, Australia. Mi tarea se basó en diseñar e implementar, en
coordinación con la división corporativa, un Programa de Mejoramiento Continuo de
Procesos de Negocios (PMC), que se adaptara a las condiciones y circunstancias de la mina.
Blair Athol, una de las minas de carbón más antiguas del estado y una de las mayores en el
mundo en producción de carbón termal, llegaba a sus últimos años de vida. Adicionalmente,
las industrias generadoras de combustibles fósiles comenzaban a enfrentar oposición por
consideraciones ambientales. Debido a esto, la estrategia seguida tenía que considerar los
siguientes condicionantes:
La cercanía de la etapa de cierre de mina, obliga a dar menor prioridad al
cambio cultural profundo, el cual puede demandar mucho tiempo;
Conforme la etapa de cierre se acerca, se espera un aumento en la rotación de
personal, lo cual demanda que los procedimientos estén muy bien
documentados (institucionalizados) y no dependan de las personas;
Contracción en el margen de utilidad, por el incremento de los costos
operativos, paralelo a la disminución de las ventas por la baja en la calidad del
carbón remanente; y
Nuevos desafíos propios del final de la etapa comercial de la mina (medio
ambientales, laborales, logísticos, financieros, etc.), incrementándose el riesgo
general del negocio.
Por todo lo anterior el Programa de Mejora Continua de la Mina Blair Athol debía ser
enfocado en el rendimiento económico de los procesos y en la mitigación de riesgos. El
programa debería contemplar al cambio cultural como consecuencia de la implementación de
los proyectos de mejora, y debía ser altamente estructurado y documentado.
El programa se diseñó basado en la arquitectura de un Sistema de Gestión, con
similitud a un Sistema de Gestión de Seguridad, Salud e Higiene. Una ventaja de esta
estrategia es que el Sistema de Gestión de Mejoramiento Continuo puede en algún momento
fusionarse con los Sistemas de Gestión mencionados y lograr sinergias en las plataformas y
herramientas de gestión utilizadas.
El fin último de todo programa de mejora continua es alinear la cultura de la
organización, sus procesos de negocios y sus sistemas de gestión con la estrategia corporativa
de negocios; se utiliza como recurso primario la iniciativa y el compromiso con la
organización de cada colaborador, quien idealmente deberá actuar como si fuera el “dueño”
del negocio. Este esfuerzo requiere del diseño e implementación de sistemas y herramientas
de gestión ad hoc.
El modelo de programa contenido en el presente reporte es el resultado de la
aplicación de metodologías de mejora continua en diversas organizaciones mineras de gran
escala a nivel nacional e internacional, en las cuales el autor ha prestado servicios.
El PMC propuesto va a necesitar de los siguientes elementos estratégicos para lograr
resultados sostenibles y congruentes con los principios de gestión moderna.
1. Principios Éticos de Negocios – representan la base moral que debe tener la
empresa, sobre la cual se deben desarrollar todas las actividades relativas al
negocio, incluyendo las relacionadas al PMC;
2. Dirección Estratégica – proveen dirección y foco al PMC. Están
determinadas por la Visión, Misión y Objetivos;
3. Estructura de Gobierno – determina los roles y responsabilidades para la
implementación efectiva del PMC;
4. Elementos Impulsores del PMC – son herramientas y sistemas que permiten
la ejecución exitosa del PMC. A saber:
a. Generadores de Motivación y Comportamiento; El
Reconocimiento, El Desarrollo Profesional e incentivos
económicos servirán como medios para desarrollar
compromiso en los participantes del PMC.
b. Sistema Operativo de Gestión; los mecanismos que permiten
la administración y control de la implementación del PMC.
Por ejemplo, el registro de ideas de mejora o los procesos de
reporte sobre rendimiento y avances.
c. Metodología de Mejora Continua; el método general a seguir
en la implementación de proyectos de mejora, incluyendo
técnicas de análisis y gestión de proyectos.
d. Proceso de Desarrollo de Proyecto; el proceso que sigue una
Idea de Mejora hasta llegar a ser Proyecto de Mejora.
e. Reuniones y Sesiones de Trabajo; se llevan a cabo de acuerdo
a estándares de eficiencia predeterminados.
f. Adquisición de Habilidades y Entrenamiento; una propuesta
para adquirir los conocimientos y habilidades sobre las
metodologías de mejoramiento continuo.
g. Gestión de Cambio; es crítico para generar aceptación e
involucramiento por parte de los miembros de la
organización a todo nivel.
h. Gestión de Conocimiento; el sistema que captura, documenta
y permite compartir el conocimiento adquirido a través de la
implementación del PMC.
5. Plan de Implementación – es el paquete de instalación del PMC, el cual
incluye un cronograma de actividades conducentes al lanzamiento del PMC;
6. Procesos de Revisión y Reporte – monitorean el desarrollo del PMC
brindando información oportuna a la Gerencia y permitiendo la aplicación de
medidas correctivas en caso haya desviaciones del plan original;
7. Herramientas Generales y Recursos – facilitan la estandarización de las
actividades relacionadas a la implementación de proyectos de mejora continua
El PMC, al ser ejecutado y ser probado en circunstancias reales, generará
oportunidades de mejora y/o cambios en sí mismo, que pueden ser de formato, metodología e
incluso de estrategia. Así. el PMC, se considera un Sistema Vivo y autorregulado.
A continuación, un cuadro esquemático que muestra el flujograma del proceso de
implementación del programa como también, los pasos requeridos para su revisión y
modificación o mejoramiento.
Books on the topic "Australian minerals industry":
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Clements, Kenneth W. The great energy debate: Energy costs, minerals, and the future of the Western Australian economy. Nedlands, W.A: University of Western Australia Press, 2002.
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Minerals Council of Australia. Environmental Workshop. The code: Delivering results : Australian minerals industry code for environmental management : proceedings, 23rd Annual Environmental Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria, 25 October-30 October 1998. Dickson, A.C.T: Minerals Council of Australia, 1998.
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Brooks, Denis R. Reclamation in Australia's heavy mineral sands industry. S.l: s.n, 1989.
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Biomine '93 International Conference and Workshop (1993 Adelaide, S. Aust.). Biomine '93: International Conference and Workshop, Applications of Biotechnology to the Minerals Industry : March 22-23, 1993, Adelaide, South Australia. Glenside, S. Aust: Australian Mineral Foundation, 1993.
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International Conference and Workshop (1994 Perth, W.A.). Biomine '94: International Conference and Workshop, Applications of biotechnology to the minerals industry : September 19-20, 1994, Perth, Western Australia. Glenside, S. Aust: Australian Mineral Foundation, 1994.
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Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (Australia). Exploring for common ground: Aboriginal reconciliation and the Australian mining industry. Canberra: Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1993.
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Kelly, E. R. Enquiry into occupational health and safety in the mining industry in Western Australia. [Perth: Govt. of Western Australia, 1991.
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Fetherston, J. M. Tantalum in Western Australia. Perth, W.A: Geological Survey of Western Australia, 2004.
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Huang, Xueli. Chinese investment in Australia: Unique insights from the mining industry. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Kauffman, Paul. Wik, mining, and Aborigines. St. Leonards, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 1998.
Book chapters on the topic "Australian minerals industry":
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Huang, Xueli, and Ian Austin. "Chinese Investment in the Australian Minerals Industry: Concluding Comments, Organisational Challenges and Policy Implications." In Chinese Investment in Australia, 175–99. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230314153_7.
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Guerin, Turlough F. "Applications of Stakeholder Engagement and Eco-Efficiency as Enablers of Corporate Responsibility in the Australian Mining and Minerals Processing Industry." In Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World, 321–70. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01103-0_12.
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Huang, Xueli, and Ian Austin. "An Overview of China’s Investment in the Australian Mineral Industry: Theoretical Perspective and Investment Characteristics." In Chinese Investment in Australia, 18–47. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230314153_2.
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Reemeyer, L. "Effect of Deposit Types, Mine Development and Industry Structure on Primary Lead and Zinc Economics in Australia, North America and Europe." In The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 507–16. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37070-1_43.
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Andrews, Trish. "Mining Education Australia." In Cases on Interactive Technology Environments and Transnational Collaboration, 94–113. IGI Global, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-909-5.ch005.
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Due to a range of social and economic factors, Australian institutions have struggled to meet the demand for highly trained professionals for the minerals industry in recent years. In order to address this issue, Mining Education Australia, a consortia of four of Australia’s mining schools was established to develop and deliver a common curriculum for mining engineering education.. The use of technology to support the delivery of this common curriculum is integral to the success of this initiative. This chapter outlines the challenges in such collaborations and discusses the range of corporate and open source technologies selected and adopted to overcome these challenges to enable collaborative teaching and learning activities in this trans-national program.
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Hutchison, Charles S. "The Geological Framework." In The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199248025.003.0011.
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This chapter outlines the principal geological features of the region, extending from Myanmar and Taiwan in the north, southwards to include all the ASEAN countries, and extending as far as northern Australia. The present-day lithospheric plates and plate margins are described, and the Cenozoic evolution of the region discussed. Within a general framework of convergent plate tectonics, Southeast Asia is also characterized by important extensional tectonics, resulting in the world’s greatest concentration of deep-water marginal basins and Cenozoic sedimentary basins, which have become the focus of the petroleum industry. The pre-Cenozoic geology is too complex for an adequate analysis in this chapter and the reader is referred to Hutchison (1989) for further details. A chronological account summarizing the major geological changes in Southeast Asia is given in Figure 1.2. The main geographical features of the region were established in the Triassic, when the large lithospheric plate of Sinoburmalaya (also known as Sibumasu), which had earlier rifted from the Australian part of Gondwanaland, and collided with and became sutured onto South China and Indochina, together named Cathaysia. The result was a great mountain-building event known as the Indosinian orogeny. Major granites were emplaced during this orogeny, with which the tin and tungsten mineral deposits were genetically related. The orogeny resulted in general uplift and the formation of major new landmasses, which have predominantly persisted as the present-day regional physical geography of Southeast Asia. The Indo-Australian Plate is converging at an average rate of 70 mm a−1 in a 003° direction, pushed from the active South Indian Ocean spreading axis. For the most part it is composed of the Indian Ocean, formed of oceanic sea-floor basalt overlain by deep water. It forms a convergent plate margin with the continental Eurasian Plate, beneath which it subducts at the Sunda or Java Trench. The Eurasian continental plate protrudes as a peninsular extension (Sundaland) southwards as far as Singapore, continuing beneath the shallow Straits of Malacca and the Sunda Shelf as the island of Sumatra and the northwestern part of Borneo.
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Jiménez Diaz, Pablo Emilio, Laura Alejandra Merchán Verano, Daniel Pita Ruiz, and Diego Muñoz Ussa. "Explotación de coltán en Colombia, una nueva fuente de financiación ilícita." In Cartografía de la explotación ilícita de recursos naturales en Colombia, 89–118. Escuela Militar de Cadetes General Jose María Córdova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21830/9786289514667.03.
Abstract:
El coltán, un mineral esencial para prevenir la corrosión en aleaciones especiales y de alta resistencia, es usado en general para la producción de componentes electrónicos, por lo que se considera muy estratégico en la industria tecnológica. Debido a estas propiedades y a la demanda internacional, en la última década organizaciones criminales alrededor del mundo han desatado conflictos por controlar esta commoditie, lo cual ha generado inestabilidad en muchos países, sobre todo en África, donde se encuentran las principales reservas, en contraste con Australia o Canadá, países que también son productores, pero que no sufren las consecuencias de la llamada “maldición de los recursos”. Luego de que en el año 2009 se descubrieran yacimientos de coltán en Colombia, los diversos actores criminales que ejercen un control territorial sobre algunos departamentos ricos en este recurso iniciaron procesos de explotación ilícita, con un alto costo ambiental y enormes beneficios económicos.
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Hardin, Garrett. "From Jevons's Coal to Hubbert's Pimple." In Living within Limits. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195078114.003.0018.
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In a commercial society like ours it is understandable that money-makers should be the ones who pay the greatest attention to the implications of economics. Historians have been a breed apart, with most of them (until recently) paying little heed to the ways in which economics affects history. Yet surprisingly, a basis for the eventual integration of economics, ecology, and history was laid in the nineteenth century. The Victorian who tackled history from the economic side was William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882). The distinction made in the previous chapter between living in a area and living on it was a paraphrase of what Jevons wrote about the material basis of English prosperity: "The plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields; Chicago and Odessa our granaries; Canada and the Baltic are our timber forests; Australia contains our sheep farms, and in South America are our herds of oxen;.. . the Chinese grow tea for us, and our coffee, sugar, and spice plantations are in all the Indies. Spain and France are our vineyards, and the Mediterranean our fruit-garden.'" A century before the term "ghost acres" was coined, Jevons had clearly in mind the idea behind the term. Half a century before Jevons was born—in fact in the year the Bastille was stormed by French revolutionaries (1789)—an English mineral surveyer by the name of John Williams had asked, in The Limited Quantity of Coal of Britain, what would happen to the blessings of the industrial revolution when England no longer possessed the wherewithal to power the machinery that produced her wealth? Optimism is so deeply engrained a characteristic of busy people that this warning, like most first warnings, was little noted. It remained for Jevons to rouse the British public in 1865 with the publication of his book, The Coal Question. Jevons's life coincided in time with the period when the nature and significance of energy (in its prenuclear formulation) was becoming manifest to physical scientists. Since energy was needed to turn the wheels of industry, and coal was the most readily available source of energy, Jevons reasoned that the continued political dominance of Great Britain was dependent on the bounty of her coal. This naturally led to the double question, How long would English coal and the British Empire last?
Conference papers on the topic "Australian minerals industry":
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Lim, Cheryl S., and Brian Sowerby. "Neutron techniques of on-line analysis in the Australian mineral industry." In 4th International Conference on Applications of Nuclear Techniques: Neutrons and their Applications, edited by George Vourvopoulos and Themis Paradellis. SPIE, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.204184.
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McAlpine, Sarlae. "Trusted Environmental and Geological Information." In PESA Symposium Qld 2022. PESA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36404/adeg3062.
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Two new programs at Geoscience Australia are providing trusted, high-quality science to support decision making and the Australian resources industry. The Trusted Environmental and Geological Information program will provide baseline precompetitive data in the Cooper, Adavale, north Bowen and Galilee basin regions. A repository of information is being developed in collaboration with CSIRO, including new geological and environmental assessments, to accelerate development in the sectors of petroleum, mineral, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, while simultaneously providing opportunities to understand the potential hazards, risk and impacts of these resources being developed. The Data Driven Discoveries program is combining new and old data to better understand the underexplored Adavale Basin in central-western Queensland. The program will undertake chemical composition analyses to support the correlation of geological layers, collate and reprocess historical seismic data, acquire new seismic reflection data, and undertake stratigraphic research drilling to provide a more detailed understanding of basin architecture and the resource potential of the Adavale Basin. An overview of the Trusted Environmental and Geological Information and Data Driven Discoveries programs, initial results, and planned acquisition, will show how these complementary programs will contribute to streamlined regulation and approval processes, the low emissions agenda, and responsible resource development in key basins regions across Australia.
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White, Benedict, Graeme Doole, D. Byrd, and David Pannell. "An economic analysis of environmental bonds in the Western Australian mineral sands industry." In Fourth International Conference on Mine Closure. Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.36487/acg_repo/908_11.
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Lagat, Christopher, Reem Roufail, Vamegh Rasouli, Brian Evans, and Soren Soe. "Experimental Investigation of Steel Coiled Tubes Performance Under Cyclic Bending." In ASME 2014 33rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2014-23208.
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Research is currently being undertaken in Australia to develop new drilling technologies for deep mineral exploration. The Deep Exploration Technologies Cooperative Research Centre (DET CRC) has carried out a comprehensive review of the available drilling technologies in the market. Following the study, coiled tube drilling technology has been suggested as a faster and cheaper method than conventional pipe drilling. This is primarily due to its smaller footprint relative to the standard rotary method, ease of unit mobility, less operating personnel, faster rate of penetration, and faster rig up and rig down times. The steel coiled tubing technology has traditionally been used in the petroleum industry. While there have been several attempts to evaluate the performance of coiled tubes in the oil and gas industry, limited or no attempts have been made to assess its performance in deep hard rock mineral exploration drilling. Therefore, DET CRC is in the process of re-designing the coiled tube rig approach to enable fast and efficient drilling of deep micro-holes in hard rocks. Cyclic bending of the coiled tubing past the yield strength point of the material leads to progressive weakening of the tube, which accordingly leads to rapid reduction of the tube service life [1]. Hence fatigue is an important parameter that needs to be considered in material selection for coiled tube and rig design. A bending machine was designed and manufactured to evaluate the fatigue bending strength of conventional HSLA steel tubes. The machine is capable of measuring and recording the bending/flattening resistant forces of the tubes along with the number of bend/flatten events. It can also measure the strain applied on the tube if needed. In this study, several HSLA steel grades and thicknesses of coiled tubes were tested for fatigue bending strength. Fatigued and non-fatigued tubes had their mechanical property alteration tested using tensile test methods. This paper presents the fatigue bending machine. The machine is designed to test most material types of coiled tubes. The paper also reports results of the cyclic bending experiments that were performed on selected grades and sizes of conventional HSLA steel coiled tubes. The paper complements and enhances the understanding of the performance of conventional coiled tube material under fatigue bending conditions.