The effect of particle shape on the behaviour of gold tailings

Advances in Geotechnical Engineering: The Skempton Conference - Proceedings of a Three Day Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering, organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 393-404

  Clayton, C R I ^a,b   Theron, M ^a   Vermeulen, N J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c Jones and Wagner ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SAND; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GOLD TAILINGS; PARTICLE SHAPE; SLIMES;

CLAY;

EID: 32544433980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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