Electrostatic separation of muscovite mica from feldspathic pegmatites

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 422-429

  Iuga, Alexandru ^a   Cuglesan, Ioan ^a   Samuila, Adrian ^a,b   Blajan, Marius ^a   Vadan, Dumitru ^c,d   Dascalescu, Lucian ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b University Institute of Technology   (France)

^c Cominex SA ^*  (Romania)

^d Capus Mining Company   (Romania)

Author keywords

Corona field; Electrostatic separation; Feldspar; Muscovite mica; Quartz

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FELDSPAR; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICA; QUARTZ;

FELDSPATHIC PEGMATITES; MUSCOVITE MICA;

ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS;

EID: 2342450516     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2004.824506     Document Type: Article

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