Books in Mineral processing

Our Mineral processing collection offers in-depth insights into ore beneficiation, extraction techniques, and process optimization. It supports mineral engineers, researchers, and industry professionals seeking to improve efficiency, sustainability, and product quality. Featuring the latest innovations, case studies, and technological advances, these resources help address industry challenges and promote responsible resource utilization.

Mine Tailings
Fundamental and Engineering Aspects of Colloidal/Fine Mine Wastes
1st Edition
Akira Otsuki + 3 more
English
Mine Tailings: Fundamental and Engineering Aspects of Colloidal/Fine Mine Wastes offers an in-depth examination of mine waste and related issues such as storage, safety, environmental impact, water management, and sustainability. The book begins with a review of regulations and global standards for tailings management that is followed by an analysis of common types of tailings storage facilities. The book delves into the behavior of tailings materials, including particle interactions, dispersion/aggregati... and the rheology of mineral suspensions. It covers soil mechanics and toxic substance treatment, as well as managing the closure and safety of mine waste management facilities.Additiona... it addresses the environmental, social, and governance factors essential for sustainable mining operations, making it a valuable resource for those concerned with mine waste management. This comprehensive text is crucial for researchers and engineers aiming to understand and mitigate the impacts of mine waste.
Mineral Processing Design and Operations
An Introduction
3rd Edition
Denis S. Yan + 1 more
English
Mineral Processing Design and Operations: An Introduction, Third Edition outlines the various methods commonly used in mineral beneficiation and concentration processes. It provides a balance of fundamental theoretical operational principles and practical explanations of the design and operation of apparatus and equipment. The basics of process controls for efficient and economic modes of separation are also introduced. This fully updated third edition features updates on key areas within the field such as the properties of slurries and tailings waste management, as well as the increasing importance of sensor-based ore sorting options to improve efficiency and sustainability. The book covers the theory and formulae for unit capacities and power requirements to help the designer develop the necessary equipment and flowsheets to economically attain maximum yield and grade. Application of the theory to practice is explained at each stage, helping operators understand associated implications in each unit process. It aims to help students, practicing engineers and operators who are interested in processing minerals to economically liberate and concentrate them for down-stream extraction processes. To understand the unit as well as the integrated processes, the subject has been treated with a mathematical emphasis to help in applying the theory in actual process design and operations. Data provided in the appendix is intended to aid in the calculations of designing and plant operations, whilst solutions to simple and common plant problems are also provided. Mineral Processing Design and Operations: An Introduction, Third Edition is written primarily for undergraduate, graduate and postdoc level students in metallurgy, chemical engineering and process engineering who are engaged in the beneficiation of minerals. It also remains a valuable text for professional engineers working in industry given the breadth of coverage.
Processing of Complex Ores
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Processing of Complex Ores, Halifax, August 20-24, 1989
1st Edition
G. S. Dobby + 1 more
English
A broad spectrum of the subject from basic research to plant applications has been covered. Flotation and hydrometallurgy have attracted a good deal of interest in view of their growing importance in the processing of complex ores. Physical methods including magnetic and gravity separation techniques have received attention in the processing of tantalum, niobium and tungsten. In addition, a set of papers is devoted to expert systems and their applications in mineral processing plants.
Production and Processing of Fine Particles
Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Production and Processing of Fine Particles, Montreal, August 28-31, 1988
1st Edition
A. J. Plumpton
English
This volume contains the proceedings of an international symposium organised by the Metallurgical Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. The aims of the symposium were to discuss fundamental and practical aspects of the technology for the production of fine inorganic particles for the metals, industrial minerals and advanced ceramics sectors, to highlight particle characterization methods and developments, and to review major advances in the processing and extractive metallurgy of finely-sized minerals. 96 conference papers by authors from 19 countries addressed such topics as particle morphology and size analysis, physical and chemical methods for producing fine particles, processing of minerals using gravity, magnetic and electrostatic separation, flotation and flocculation, phase separation involving fine particles, and the hydrometallurgy and pyroprocessing of fine particles. This book will be of interest to mineral processing scientists and engineers, ceramicists, extractive metallurgists and chemical engineers, who are faced with the increasing significance of inorganic fine particles either as valuable products or as materials to be treated in mineral processing systems.
Membrane-Based Separations in Metallurgy
Principles and Applications
1st Edition
Lan Ying Jiang + 1 more
English
Membrane-Based Separation in Metallurgy: Principles and Applications begins with basic coverage of the basic principles of the topic and then explains how membrane technology helps in the development of new environmentally friendly and sustainable metallurgical processes. The book features the principles of metallurgical process and how widely the membrane-based technology has been applied in metallurgical industry, including the basic principles of membrane-based separation in terms of material science, membrane structure engineering, transport mechanisms, and module design, detailed metallurgical process flowcharts with emphasis on membrane separations, current process designs, and describes problems and provides possible solutions. In addition, the book includes specific membrane applications, molecular design of materials, fine tuning of membrane’s multi-scale structure, module selection and process design, along with a final analysis of the environmental and economic benefits achieved by using these new processes.
Petroleum Production Engineering
2nd Edition
Boyun Guo + 2 more
English
Petroleum Production Engineering, Second Edition, updates both the new and veteran engineer on how to employ day-to-day production fundamentals to solve real-world challenges with modern technology. Enhanced to include equations and references with today’s more complex systems, such as working with horizontal wells, workovers, and an entire new section of chapters dedicated to flow assurance, this go-to reference remains the most all-inclusive source for answering all upstream and midstream production issues. Completely updated with five sections covering the entire production spectrum, including well productivity, equipment and facilities, well stimulation and workover, artificial lift methods, and flow assurance, this updated edition continues to deliver the most practical applied production techniques, answers, and methods for today’s production engineer and manager. In addition, updated Excel spreadsheets that cover the most critical production equations from the book are included for download.
WEEE Recycling
Research, Development, and Policies
1st Edition
Alexandre Chagnes + 4 more
English
WEEE Recycling: Research, Development, and Policies covers policies, research, development, and challenges in recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The book introduces WEEE management and then covers the environmental, economic, and societal applications of e-waste recycling, focusing on the technical challenges to designing efficient and sustainable recycling processes—including physical separation, pyrometallurgical, and hydrometallurgical processes. The development of processes for recovering strategic and critical metals from urban mining is a priority for many countries, especially those having few available ores mining.
Gold Ore Processing
Project Development and Operations
2nd Edition
Volume 15
Mike D. Adams
English
Gold Ore Processing: Project Development and Operations, Second Edition, brings together all the technical aspects relevant to modern gold ore processing, offering a practical perspective that is vital to the successful and responsible development, operation, and closure of any gold ore processing operation. This completely updated edition features coverage of established, newly implemented, and emerging technologies; updated case studies; and additional topics, including automated mineralogy and geometallurgy, cyanide code compliance, recovery of gold from e-waste, handling of gaseous emissions, mercury and arsenic, emerging non-cyanide leaching systems, hydro re-mining, water management, solid–liquid separation, and treatment of challenging ores such as double refractory carbonaceous sulfides. Outlining best practices in gold processing from a variety of perspectives, Gold Ore Processing: Project Development and Operations is a must-have reference for anyone working in the gold industry, including metallurgists, geologists, chemists, mining engineers, and many others.
The Metallogeny of Lode Gold Deposits
A Syngenetic Perspective
1st Edition
Ulrich Kretschmar + 1 more
English
The Metallogeny of Lode Gold Deposits: A Syngenetic Perspective is a synthesis of lode gold vein forming processes, addressing the commonality in similar worldwide deposits. The book’s empirical model incorporates widely known and accepted principles of ore deposition and shows how it applies in the volcanic-sedimentary greenstone belt environment. Several chapters detail outcrop maps and photos of field occurrences and textures. The interpretations flow directly from the authors’ field work, and are coupled with analyses of underlying physical processes. Utilizing detailed geological mapping, field work, and chemical analyses as the basis of a syngenetic formation mode, the text arms readers with the tools necessary to accurately analyze and interpret new data on the subject. This includes information on decoding the significance of asymmetry in vein formation, as well as the role of lamprophyres in gold camps, how Archean geology requires integration into a lode vein formation model, and how to develop an understanding of the worldwide applicability of gold cycles to lode vein formation and exploration and how it can be applied to deposits of all ages.
Wills' Mineral Processing Technology
An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery
8th Edition
Barry A. Wills + 1 more
English
Wills' Mineral Processing Technology: An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery has been the definitive reference for the mineral processing industry for over thirty years. This industry standard reference provides practicing engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy, and mining with practical information on all the common techniques used in modern processing installations. Each chapter is dedicated to a major processing procedure—from underlying principles and technologies to the latest developments in strategies and equipment for processing increasingly complex refractory ores. The eighth edition of this classic reference enhances coverage of practical applications via the inclusion of new material focused on meeting the pressing demand for ever greater operational efficiency, while addressing the pivotal challenges of waste disposal and environmental remediation. Advances in automated mineralogy and analysis and high-pressure grinding rolls are given dedicated coverage. The new edition also contains more detailed discussions of comminution efficiency, classification, modeling, flocculation, reagents, liquid-solid separations, and beneficiation of phosphate, and industrial materials. Finally, the addition of new examples and solved problems further facilitates the book’s pedagogical role in the classroom.