Heavy minerals in the athabasca oil sands tailings - Potential and recovery processes

Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 383-392

  Ciu, Z ^a   Liu, Q ^a   Etsell, T H ^a   Oxenford, J ^b   Coward, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; HYDROCARBONS; ILMENITE; METALLURGY; SAND; TITANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ATHABASCA OIL SANDS; HEAVY MINERALS;

TAILINGS;

EID: 0142165760     PISSN: 00084433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/cmq.2003.42.4.383     Document Type: Article

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