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Flotation in Mineral Processing

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The Scientific Basis of Flotation

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Few of the metals or minerals required by modern civilisation are mined naturally pure and ready to use. Instead they occur in complex aggregates of up to twenty different minerals of which only one or two will be of value. There are some two hundred of these ‘value’ minerals amoung the several thousand minerals that go to form the earth’s crust. The number of combinations of minerals that can occur with a valuable component is therefore very large and each deposit (ore) containing nominally the same valuable minerals will differ materially from all others. Consequently, the best separation process for a particular ore is closely related to its overall mineralogy and not to just the nature of the valuable components.

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Shergold, H.L. (1984). Flotation in Mineral Processing. In: Ives, K.J. (eds) The Scientific Basis of Flotation. NATO ASI Series, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6926-1_7

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