Characterisation of various Jamaican bauxite ores by quantitative Rietveld X-ray powder diffraction and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 14-18

  Kirwan, Luke J ^a   Deeney, Francis A ^b   Croke, Gerard M ^c   Hodnett, Kieran ^d  

^a UC RUSAL   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c Department of Chemistry   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bauxite; M ssbauer spectroscopy; Rietveld; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; IRON ORES; LITHOLOGY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MOLYBDENUM; OXIDE MINERALS; POWDERS; RIETVELD ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMORPHOUS IRONS; BAUXITE; CHARACTERISATION; IRON MINERALS; PHASE PRESENTS; PROCESSABILITY; QUANTITATIVE PHASE ANALYSIS; RIETVELD; X-RAY POWDER DIFFRACTIONS; XRD;

X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 62749095935     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.minpro.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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