Flotation Plant

Optimisation
A

Metallurgical Guide to Identifying and

Solving Problems in Flotation Plants

The Australasian Institute of

Spectrum

Mining

and

Metallurgy

Series No 16

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THE MINERALS INSTITUTE

Edited

by Christopher J

Greet

THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY

Level 3,

15-31

Pelham

Street, Carlton Victoria

3053 Australia

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Chapter

I
An

The Eureka Mine

Example

of How to

Identify

and Solve Problems in

Flotation Plant

Greet

CJ

Chapter

35

Existing Methods
N

CONTENTS

for Process

Analysis

WJohnson

Chapter

65

Mass

Balancing

Flotation Data

R Morrison

Chapter

83

A Practical Guide

to

Some

Aspects

of

Mineralogy

that Affect Flotation

A R Butcher

Chapter

95

Characterisation Measurements in Industrial Flotation Cells

G

Harbort and S Schwarz

Chapter

107

Chemical Measurements During Plant Surveys and Their Interpretation

S ft Grano

Chapter

123

Electrochemical

Aspects

of Sulfide Mineral Flotation

R Woods

Chapter

137

Surface Chemical Characterisation for

Identifying

and

Solving

Problems Within Base Metal Sulfide Flotation

Plants
A N

Buckley

Chapter 9

155

Laboratory Flotation Testing

K

An Essential Tool for Ore Characterisation

CRunge

Chapter

10

Designing

175
and

Analysing

Plant Trials

TJ Napier-Munn

Chapter

II

191

Economics and Communication

D Pease

Chapter

12

201

Operational Geometallurgy
D David

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