Characterisation of graphite by automated mineral liberation analysis

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 184-189

  Sandmann, Dirk ^a   Haser, Sabine ^a,b   Gutzmer, Jens ^a,b  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beneficiation; Graphite; Liberation; Mineral association; MLA; Modal mineralogy; SEM based image analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BENEFICIATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOTATION; GRAPHITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MINERALS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGING; INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS; LIBERATION; MINERAL ASSOCIATIONS; MINERAL LIBERATION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PROCESS-RELEVANT PARAMETERS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907029835     PISSN: 03719553     EISSN: 17432855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743285514Y.0000000063     Document Type: Article

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