Diagnosis of concentrate grade and mass flowrate in tin flotation from colour and surface texture analysis

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 613-621

  Hargrave, J M ^a   Hall, S T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flotation froths; Froth flotation; Neural networks; Non ferrous metallic ores

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTALS; FROTH FLOTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; TEXTURES;

SURFACE TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

TIN ORE TREATMENT;

EID: 0031153655     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-6875(97)00040-x     Document Type: Article

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