Mineralogical, petrographic and geological controls on coal ash fusion temperature from New Clydesdale Colliery, Witbank Coalfield, South Africa

Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-190

  Weeber, S L ^a   Cairncross, B ^a   Falcon, R M S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b Falcon Res Consult Serv (Pty) L   (South Africa)

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