Underground                                       Underground

Health and safety, productivity and environment initiatives.

Open Cut                                          Open Cut

Safety, productivity and the right to operate are priorities for open cut mine research.

Coal Preparation                                  Coal Preparation

Maximising throughput and yield while minimising costs and emissions.

Technical Market Support                          Technical Market Support

Market acceptance and emphasising the advantages of Australian coals.

Mine Site Greenhouse Mitigation                   Mine Site Greenhouse Mitigation

Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the production of coal.

Low Emission Coal Use                             Low Emission Coal Use

Step-change technologies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mining and the Community                          Mining and the Community

The relationship between mines and the local community.

 

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Recently completed projects

Underground

C15019Geophysical Strata Ra...

The Geophysical Strata Rating (GSR) is a means of empirically ....

C15002Longwall Automation 2...

This report covers a nominal two-year extension to the Major Longwall ....

C14022Development of a Data...

The need for this project was identified in a previous ACARP project ....

Open Cut

C13046Artificial Structures...

For an increasing number of open cut coal mines in central Queensland, ....

C14060Development of a Cent...

The objective of this project was to evaluate the concept of using a ....

C10043Use of Soil Amendment...

Since the Kyoto Protocol was first drafted in 1997, many ....

Coal Preparation

C16004Electrical Efficiency...

The report is intended to be used as a guide or a handbook by ....

C14068Ultimate Froth Flotat...

This report describes the development of a new reliable method ....

C16041Electrokinetic Dewate...

The processing, transport and management of ultrafine coal tailings ....

Technical Market Support

C13068Alternative Method fo...

Traditional plasticity measurements for coal have a number of ....

C11017Coke: Its Constitutio...

Coke made in coke ovens from coal and used in iron blast furnaces is a ....

C14073QEMSCAN for Character...

QEMSCAN is an automated electron beam image analysis technique, ....

Mine Site Greenhouse Mitigation

C17055Estimation of Gas in ...

ACARP Project C15076 (Saghafi et al., 2008) presents a calculation ....

C15076Evaluating a Tier 3 M...

Fugitive emissions from open cut coal mines arise when coal and ....

C17006Spontaneous Combustio...

Open-cut coal mining produces large quantities of waste material that ....

Low Emission Coal Use

C17002An Integrated Roadmap...

Heavy investment into research and development of clean coal ....

C16008Review of HyperCoal, ...

This report describes the findings of a review of three potential ....

Mining and the Community

C13078Communication Strateg...

This ACARP project was designed to identify communication strategies ....

C13080Socio-economic Impact...

The broad aim of this project was to assist coal mining companies ....

C13081Age Related Changes i...

The ageing of the Australian workforce poses particular challenges to ....