Sampling and flotation testing of Sudbury Basin drill core for process mineralogy modelling

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 857-864

  Lotter, N O ^a   Kowal, D L ^a   Tuzun, M A ^b   Whittaker, P J ^a   Kormos, L ^a  

^a Falconbridge Limited   (Canada)

^b Sudbury Mines and Mill Business Unit ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Flotation kinetics; Liberation analysis; Mineral processing; Ore mineralogy; Process optimisation

Indexed keywords

FLOTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL RECOVERY; MINING DRILLS; ORE DEPOSITS; ORE SAMPLING; SILICATE MINERALS; THEOREM PROVING;

LIBERATION ANALYSIS; MINERAL PROCESSING;

MINERALOGY;

EID: 0348163587     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-6875(03)00207-3     Document Type: Article

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