The adhesion of gold to oil-carbon agglomerates

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-38

  Wu, X Q ^a   Gochin, R J ^b   Monhemius, A J ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agglomeration; Flocculation; Gold ores; Particle morphology

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADSORPTION; DEFORMATION; FLOCCULATION; FRACTURE; GRAPHITE; MIXING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACES; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

GOLD ORES; MICROGRAPHS; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGY;

GOLD;

EID: 0942300694     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2003.10.007     Document Type: Article

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