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Minerals, Volume 5, Issue 2

June 2015 - 15 articles

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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
11,912 Views
14 Pages

Use of Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria to Leach Rare Earth Elements from Monazite-Bearing Ore

  • Doyun Shin,
  • Jiwoong Kim,
  • Byung-su Kim,
  • Jinki Jeong and
  • Jae-chun Lee

2 April 2015

In the present study, the feasibility to use phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) to develop a biological leaching process of rare earth elements (REE) from monazite-bearing ore was determined. To predict the REE leaching capacity of bacteria, the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,236 Views
22 Pages

30 March 2015

Froth image segmentation is an important and basic part in an online froth monitoring system in mineral processing. The fast and accurate bubble delineation in a froth image is significant for the subsequent froth surface characterization. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,613 Views
25 Pages

30 March 2015

A new boundary condition treatment has been devised for two-phase flow numerical simulations in a self-aerated minerals flotation machine and applied to a Wemco 0.8 m3 pilot cell. Airflow rate is not specified a priori but is predicted by the simula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,881 Views
9 Pages

25 March 2015

Naturally occurring radionuclides such as uranium, thorium and their decay products (226Ra, 222Rn) are present in a number of geological settings in Jordan. Motivated by the existence of uranium anomalies ‎coupled with its lack of conventional ‎‎ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
121 Citations
10,860 Views
16 Pages

Distribution and Substitution Mechanism of Ge in a Ge-(Fe)-Bearing Sphalerite

  • Nigel J. Cook,
  • Barbara Etschmann,
  • Cristiana L. Ciobanu,
  • Kalotina Geraki,
  • Daryl L. Howard,
  • Timothy Williams,
  • Nick Rae,
  • Allan Pring,
  • Guorong Chen and
  • Bernt Johannessen
  • + 1 author

24 March 2015

The distribution and substitution mechanism of Ge in the Ge-rich sphalerite from the Tres Marias Zn deposit, Mexico, was studied using a combination of techniques at μm- to atomic scales. Trace element mapping by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Ma...

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