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Mineral Processing Technology

An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery (In SI/Metric Units)

  • 4th Edition - October 22, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Barry A. Wills
  • Editor: D. W. Hopkins
  • Language: English

Provides practising engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy and mining with a review of the common ore-processing techniques utilized in modern installations.… Read more

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Provides practising engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy and mining with a review of the common ore-processing techniques utilized in modern installations. Each chapter encompasses all the recent technical developments within each field, and discusses new equipment and process routes. This latest edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include important new sections on economics, use of computers and developments in froth flotation. A further feature is a valuable collection of microcomputer programs, written in ANSI BASIC, for the solution of numerical mineral processing problems. The work is fully referenced up to 1987, indexed, and SI units are used throughout.

Readership

For students of mineral processing, metallurgy and mining.

Table of contents

Introduction. Ore handling. Metallurgical accounting and control. Particle-size analysis. Comminution. Crushers. Grinding mills. Industrial screening. Classification. Gravity concentration. Heavy medium separation (HMS). Froth flotation. Magnetic and high-tension separation. Ore sorting. Dewatering. Tailings disposal. Appendices: Metallic ore minerals. Common non-metallic ores. BASIC computer programs. Index.

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 22, 2013
  • Language: English

About the editor

DH

D. W. Hopkins

Affiliations and expertise
University College of Swansea, UK

About the author

BW

Barry A. Wills

Barry Wills' career in mineral processing began in 1969, when he left Leeds University to work for 4-years in Zambia with Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd. On his return to the UK, he worked for a year as a senior development engineer with Johnson Matthey Ltd, before taking up the post of Senior Lecturer at the Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall, where he wrote the first edition of Wills’ Mineral Processing Technology. In 1988 he founded the Elsevier journal Minerals Engineering, and in 1999 he launched Minerals Engineering International (MEI) Online in order to provide a central source of information for minerals engineers around the world.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Partner, MEI, Cornwall, UK

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