The Magotteaux Mill®: Investigating the effect of grinding media on pulp chemistry and flotation performance

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 891-896

  Greet, C J ^a,c   Small, G L ^b   Steinier, Philippe ^a   Grano, S R ^b  

^a MAusIMM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Froth flotation; Grinding; On line analysis; Redox reactions

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PULP; DATA ACQUISITION; FROTH FLOTATION; LABORATORIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROCESSING; REDOX REACTIONS;

DOWN STREAM PROCESSING; ON-LINE ANALYSIS; PLANT DATA; PULP CHEMISTRY;

GRINDING (MACHINING);

EID: 2942527421     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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