Surface characteristics and flotation behaviour of platinum and palladium tellurides

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1232-1245

  Shackleton, N J ^a   Malysiak, V ^a   O'Connor, C T ^b  

^a Anglo American Research Laboratories   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Microflotation; PGE telluride; ToF SIMS; XPS; Zeta potential

Indexed keywords

FLOTATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

MERENSKYITE; MICROFLOTATION; PGE TELLURIDE;

PLATINUM;

EID: 34548843029     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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