Industrial experiences in the evaluation of various flotation reagent schemes for the recovery of gold

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Klimpel, R R ^a  

^a RK Associates LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Flotation; Gold recovery; Reagents

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003305196     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03402850     Document Type: Article

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