Germanium

Critical Metals Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 177-203

  Melcher, Frank ^a,b   Buchholz, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deposit types; Germanium; Mining; Processing; Recycling

Indexed keywords

COAL; COAL ASH; COPPER DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; FLOTATION; GERMANIUM; IRON DEPOSITS; MANGANESE DEPOSITS; METALS; MINING; ORES; PROCESSING; RECYCLING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC ORE TREATMENT;

BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; FLOTATION METHOD; GERMANIUM CONTENTS; NON-TOXIC ELEMENT; PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS; RARE ELEMENTS; SULFIDE ORES; UNDERGROUND MINING;

GERMANIUM DEPOSITS;

EID: 84979935851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118755341.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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