Table of Contents
1.4 Metallic and Nonmetallic Ores
1.5 The Need for Mineral Processing
1.8 Representing Mineral Processing Systems: The Flowsheet
2.2 The Removal of Harmful Materials
2.6 Self-Heating of Sulfide Minerals
Chapter 3. Sampling, Control, and Mass Balancing
3.4 Slurry Streams: Some Typical Calculations
3.5 Automatic Control in Mineral Processing
3.7 Example Mass Balance Calculations
Chapter 4. Particle Size Analysis
4.5 On-line Particle Size Analysis
6.3 Secondary/tertiary Crushers
6.4 High Pressure Grinding Rolls
6.7 Crushing Circuits and Control
Chapter 8. Industrial Screening
8.3 Factors Affecting Screen Performance
8.4 Mathematical Models of Screens
9.2 Principles of Classification
9.4 Centrifugal Classifiers—The Hydrocyclone
Chapter 10. Gravity Concentration
10.2 Principles of Gravity Concentration
10.3 Gravitational Concentrators
10.4 Centrifugal Concentrators
10.8 Single-Stage Units and Circuits
Chapter 11. Dense Medium Separation (DMS)
11.6 Laboratory Heavy Liquid Tests
12.3 Classification of Minerals
12.8 The Importance of Pulp Potential
12.10 The Role of Particle Size and Liberation
12.11 Cells, Banks, and Circuits
12.14 Flotation Cell and Gas Dispersion Characterization
12.15 Control of Flotation Plants
12.16 Reagent Addition and Conditioning
12.17 Flotation Flowsheets and Plant Practice
12.18 Other Surface Chemistry and Flotation-Based Separation Systems
Chapter 13. Magnetic and Electrical Separation
13.4 Magnetic Separator Design
13.5 Types of Magnetic Separator
Chapter 14. Sensor-based Ore Sorting
14.2 Sensor-based Sorting Principles
14.4 Example Flowsheet and Economic Drivers
15.2 Gravitational Sedimentation
15.3 Centrifugal Sedimentation
16.2 Methods of Disposal of Tailings
Chapter 17. Modeling and Characterization
Appendix I. Metallic Ore Minerals
Appendix II. Common Nonmetallic Ores
Appendix III. Technical Separation Efficiency: Definition and Derivation
Appendix IV. Data Used in Figure 4.7
Appendix V. Derivation of Fully Mixed Recovery Equation (Chapter 12, Equation 12.28)