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Minerals, Volume 2, Issue 4

December 2012 - 14 articles

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Articles (14)

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
20,899 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2012

The European Union (EU) is highly dependent on critical and rare metals which are very important for a sustainable development. However, European industry is not able to cover its demands from native sources and it imports commodities from third coun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,599 Views
17 Pages

Transmission X-ray Microscopy—A New Tool in Clay Mineral Floccules Characterization

  • Marek S. Żbik,
  • Yen-Fang Song,
  • Ray L. Frost and
  • Chun-Chieh Wang

18 October 2012

Effective flocculation and dewatering of mineral processing streams containing clays are microstructure dependent in clay-water systems. Initial clay flocculation is crucial in the design and for the development of a new methodology of gas exploitati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,113 Views
11 Pages

EDEEP—An Innovative Process for Improving the Safety of Mining Equipment

  • Robin Burgess-Limerick,
  • Jim Joy,
  • Tristan Cooke and
  • Tim Horberry

15 October 2012

Fifteen multi-national mining companies are currently members of the Earth Moving Equipment Safety Round Table (EMESRT). Formed in 2006, EMESRT engages with mining equipment manufacturers with the aim of accelerating improvements in the safe design o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,007 Views
14 Pages

An Overview of Optimizing Strategies for Flotation Banks

  • Miguel Maldonado,
  • Rodrigo Araya and
  • James Finch

10 October 2012

A flotation bank is a serial arrangement of cells. How to optimally operate a bank remains a challenge. This article reviews three reported strategies: air profiling, mass-pull (froth velocity) profiling and Peak Air Recovery (PAR) profiling. These a...

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