Development of a froth dropback measurement device

XXV International Mineral Processing Congress 2010, IMPC 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2279-2288

  Rahman, R ^a   Ata, S ^a   Jameson, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

dropback; Flotation; Froth; Froth recovery; Particle detachment

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; AS FRACTIONS; COARSE PARTICLES; CONCENTRIC TUBE; DROPBACK; FLOTATION COLUMNS; FROTH; FROTH PHASE; FROTH RECOVERY; FROTH STABILITY; INNER TUBES; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; NEW DEVICES; PARTICLE DETACHMENTS;

EXPERIMENTS; FLOTATION; SILICA; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FROTH FLOTATION;

EID: 84874396404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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