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Mineral Processing Technology

'Mineral Processing Technology' provides practising engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy and mining with a review of the common ore-processing techniques… Read more

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'Mineral Processing Technology' 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 which are advancing at a rapid rate to deal with the processing of increasingly complex and refractory ores. New equipment and process routes are also discussed.This latest edition highlights the developments and the challenges facing the mineral processor, particularly with regard to the environmental problems posed in improving the efficiency of the existing processes and also in dealing with the waste created. Four appendices are attached, one of which contains a valuable collection of BASIC computer programs. The work is fully indexed and referenced.

Readership

Students and Practitioners of Mineral Processing, Metallurgy, Mining and related fields.

Table of contents

Introduction; Ore Handling; Metallurgical Accounting, Control and Simulation; Particle Size Analysis; Comminution; Crushers; Grinding Mills; Industrial Screening; Classification; Gravity Concentration; Dense Medium Separation (DMS); Froth Flotation; Magnetic and High Tension Separation; Ore Sorting; Dewatering; Tailings Disposal; Appendices; Index

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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.

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Senior Partner, MEI, Cornwall, UK