PUBLICATIONS

1971 Surveying Pilot Holes for Raise Borers, Honours Project. Melbourne University, Department of Mining.

1978 Geostatistical Modelling of an Iron Orebody, M Eng Sc Thesis. Melbourne University, Department of Mining and Metallurgy.

1979 Geostatistical Modelling of an Australian Iron Orebody, Proc 16th Int APCOM Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.

1982 Current Drilling and Blasting Practices on Groote Eylandt, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Conference, Melbourne, Victoria, August 1982.

1982 Current Tyre Maintenance Practices on Groote Eylandt with particular reference to Wabco 85C Dump Trucks, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and Institute of Engineers Conference on "Off Highway Truck Haulage", September, 1982.

1983 Review of BHP Minerals Yampi Organisation, Internal Report, The BHP Company Limited, Organisation Planning Department.

1984 Review of the BHP Group Library and Information Services, Internal Report, The BHP Company Limited, Organisation Planning Department.

1987 Koolan Island Slope Stability - Managing the Deep Pit Option, AMIRA 28th AGM and Technical Meeting, "Advances in Blasting and Ground Support", Sydney, Paper Number 4.

1991 Open Pit to Underground Mining - When and How?, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Kalgoorlie Branch, Regional Conference on Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Practices
in the Eastern Goldfields, December 1992.

1992 Massive Underground Mining in Australia - Applications and Costs, Massmin '92, Underground Mass Mining Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 1992. (Co-authored with S G Gemell and E P Ashley)
 

1993 Making the Transition - When and How, Open Pit to Underground: Making the Transition, Australasian Institute of Geoscientists, Bulletin No. 14, 1993.

1996 Diversity Overseas - The CIS Experience, AusIMM Annual Conference, Diversity the Key to Prosperity, Perth, (Co-authored with Dr JM Chisholm).

1996 The Awak Mas Gold Project, AusIMM Annual Conference, Diversity the Key to Prosperity, Perth, (Co-authored with MJ Tuite and LJ Woolcock).

1997 Boddington Gold Mine Wandoo Feasibility Study, Worsley Alumina Ltd internal report for the JV. (Co-authored with S Williams and J Hacker).

1999 Mining Options Study, for Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM), internal report for the JV regarding owner mining options for the Super Pit.

2000 Hope Downs Mining Study, internal report for Hope Downs Management Services, managers of the Hope Downs Iron Ore Project.

2000 Mining Methods Study, internal report for Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations, managers of the Ravensthorpe Nickel Project.

2002  One Orebody - Two Tenements - Multiple Owners: How to Apportion Costs and Production Equitably Over the Mine Life?, AusIMM Underground Operators' Conference, Townsville, Queensland, July. 

2002  Contract versus Owner Mining - an Update on Current Australasian Mining Practice, Proceedings AusIMM Iron Ore Conference, Perth, September.

2006    Mining Consulting in Australia, Mining Chronicle, Vol 11 No. 7, August 2006, pp 61 - 64.

2007    Uranium Mining Issues, a workshop presented in association with Mineral Technical Engineering Services, Perth, May 2007.

 2011    The VALMIN Code – Some Current Day User Reflections, VALMIN 08, a symposium organised by the Minerals Industry Consulting Association (MICA), August 2011.

2012    Mine Manager's Handbook, published by the AusIMM, Monograph 29, Editor in Chief JS Dunlop, November 2012.

2014    The VALMIN Code – Some Current Day User Reflections, an update of the 2011 paper presented at a Seminar in Hong Kong, hosted by Greater China Advisory and MICA. 

2015    The Mineral Consultant's Handbook, published by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Monograpph 34, 2020, see www.ausimm.com.au

2016    Mineral Project Management: a Perspective from Four Decades in the Industry, AusIMM Metplant Conference, keynote address.

2016    The VALMIN Code – Some Current Day User Reflections (updated), AusIMM FNQ Branch Technical Meeting, Cairns, May.

2023    Critical Minerals and the Role of the Australian Government, AusIMM Critical Minerals Conference, Perth, November 2023.

 

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