A relationship between the bubble-particle attachment time and the mineralogy of a copper-sulphide ore

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1335-1339

  Albijanic, Boris ^a   Amini, Eiman ^a   Wightman, Elaine ^a   Ozdemir, Orhan ^a,b   Nguyen, Anh V ^a   Bradshaw, Dee J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bubble particle attachment time; Froth flotation; Mineral liberation analysis

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BATCH FLOTATION; BUBBLE-PARTICLE ATTACHMENT TIME; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; FLOATING MATERIALS; FLOTATION PERFORMANCE; MINERAL LIBERATION; MINERAL LIBERATION ANALYSIS; PARTICLE COMPOSITION; SULPHIDE ORES;

COPPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; ORE ANALYSIS; ORE TREATMENT; SILICATE MINERALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FROTH FLOTATION;

EID: 80052958193     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2011.06.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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