On empiricism in minerals processing research

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 776-781

  Stevenson, Paul ^a   Galvin, Kevin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Modelling

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ENGINEERS; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; MINERALS PROCESSING OPERATIONS; RIGOROUS DEVELOPMENT;

MINERALS;

EID: 34249941499     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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