Laboratory Testing & General Mineral Processing Engineering

Laboratory Testing & General Mineral Processing Engineering

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Reducing Plant Downtime
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When discussing the reducing plant downtime and considering increasing metallurgical plant uptime, it is essential to have a clearly understandable definition of the terms 'uptime', availability', 'utilisation' and others. In the example outlined abo...
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It was recently pointed out on another forum that plants with high reliability have both higher than average profits and fewer accidents, yet constantly the media and others harp on that those who pla...
MetSMART Simulation Software of Mass Balance -A Review
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MetSMART is powerful simulation software that can mass balance, model fit and simulate the behaviour of any ore body within a grinding & flotation plant. Simulate your whole plant from crushing through to flotation in ONE FLOWSHEET and highlight pro...
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Laboratory Grindability Test Results and Scale-Up
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A laboratory grind-ability test made in closed circuit. Should it be regarded as a miniature commercial mill operation? It is normally not a big problem but it depends on the size of the small scale mill and the operation mode. In dry grinding we h...
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The laboratory grindability test made in little laboratory mill determine the grind ability index a determined size of the product required: 100, 150 or 200 mesh and indicates the number of grams that...
Preparation of Silver Nitrate Solution
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Please, how can one prepare say a 0.1 Molar Silver Nitrate Solution to be used in the titration of Cyanide. Please back it with reactions and or calculations if there are any. Thanks.
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The use of 0.1 M AgNO3 solution is not needed. Page 33 from Dorr's Cyanidation & Concentration of Au & Ag Ores Standard silver nitrate solution is 4.33 gm of AgNO3 in 1 liter of distilled water. The...
Mass Balance Reconciliation
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Hello, could we discussion the importance of a good Mass balance reconciliation in a plant or unit operation evaluation?
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Gold Assay by Electrodeposition
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Gold determination by electrodeposition (Electrophoretic deposition) using graphite carbon elecrode or glassy carbon electrode. Do you have any professional paper? We used to analyse Gold by fire assay finished by AAS or gravimetric but as you know ...
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You could have procedure written to analyze the low grade ore you describe. However is is necessary to know your major, minor, and tertiary elements that you are the working with. I personally do no...

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