The behaviour of gold bearing minerals during froth flotation as determined by diagnostic leaching

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 523-533

  Teague, A J ^a   Swaminathan, C ^a   Van Deventer, J S J ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Froth flotation; Gold ores; Leaching; Ore mineralogy; Sulphide ores

Indexed keywords

AIR; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COPPER COMPOUNDS; FROTH FLOTATION; GOLD ORE TREATMENT; LEACHING; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFIDE MINERALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ARSENOPYRITE; COPPER SULFATE; POTASSIUM AMYL XANTHATE; PYRRHOTITE;

EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY;

EID: 0032092167     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-6875(98)00034-x     Document Type: Article

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