Understanding the discrepancy between prediction and plant GRG recovery for improving the gold gravity performance

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 559-564

  Koppalkar, Sunil ^a   Bouajila, Ahmed ^a   Gagnon, Claude ^a   Noel, Guillaume ^b  

^a COREM ^*  (Canada)

^b IAMGOLD Doyon Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gold gravity recovery; Gravity concentration; Gravity recoverable gold; Knelson concentrator; Particle shape

Indexed keywords

GOLD PARTICLES; GRAVITY CONCENTRATION; GRAVITY RECOVERABLE GOLD; KNELSON CONCENTRATORS; LABORATORY TEST; MCGILL UNIVERSITY; OPERATING CONDITION; PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION; PARTICLE SHAPE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GRINDING (COMMINUTION); GRINDING (MACHINING); LABORATORIES; RECOVERY; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STORMS;

GOLD;

EID: 79955645763     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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