Changing potential for the electrical beneficiation of minerals by chemical pretreatment

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 14-22

  Manouchehri, H R ^a   Hanumantha Rao, K ^a   Forssberg, K S E ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemical pretreatment; Electrostatic separation; Mineral separation; Tribocharging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008656317     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03402814     Document Type: Article

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