Use of synthetic ore particles to test a transformation function in liberation analysis

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1017-1032

  Woollacott, L C ^a   Valenta, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Liberation; Liberation analysis; Ore mineralogy; Particle morphology

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; MEASUREMENTS; MINERALS; MORPHOLOGY; ORE ANALYSIS; ORE SAMPLING; ORES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); STANDARDS; TESTING;

LIBERATION ANALYSIS; MINERAL SYSTEM; STEREOLOGY; SYNTHETIC ORE PARTICLES; TRANSFORMATION FUNCTION;

MINERALOGY;

EID: 0030268886     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0892-6875(96)00095-7     Document Type: Article

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