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dc.contributor.authorMcGrath, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Louisa
dc.contributor.authorEksteen, Jacques
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:16:18Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:16:18Z
dc.date.created2015-10-14T02:46:42Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationMcGrath, T. and O'Connor, L. and Eksteen, J. 2015. A comparison of 2D and 3D shape characterisations of free gold particles in gravity and flash flotation concentrates. Minerals Engineering. 82: pp. 45-53.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19888
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.mineng.2015.04.022
dc.description.abstract

The focus of this study was to characterise and quantify the nature of free gold particles recovered in a plant setting featuring parallel gravity concentration and flash flotation processes, with an emphasis on the influence of size and shape as a review of the literature suggests the importance of such attributes on a particle’s recovery behaviour. Automated mineralogical analysis (AMA) was employed to quantify the free gold particles’ circularity and sphericity measurements using two and three dimensional (2D/3D) methods. As expected, the 2D results indicated that free gold particles (−212/+38 μm) reporting to the gravity concentrate in were, on average, more circular than those of the flash concentrate. However, 3D sphericity characterisations of the same samples offered opposing results. Such a conflict identifies the limitation for application of simple 2D and 3D shape characterisations for malleable and irregularly shaped free gold particles.

dc.publisherElsevier
dc.subjectGravity concentration
dc.subjectfroth Flotation
dc.subjectParticle shape
dc.subjectGold ores
dc.titleA comparison of 2D and 3D shape characterisations of free gold particles in gravity and flash flotation concentrates
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume82
dcterms.source.startPage45
dcterms.source.endPage53
dcterms.source.issn0892-6875
dcterms.source.titleMinerals Engineering
curtin.departmentWestern Australian School of Mines
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