Keywords for minerals engineering

KEYWORDS FOR MINERALS ENGINEERING Authors should select a maximum of five keywords. Each keyword should be accompanied by the capital letter denoting the category from which the keyword has been selected. i

A. MATERIALS Acid rock drainage Coal Diamonds Flue dusts Gold ores Industrial minerals Iron ores

Non-ferrous metallic ores Non-metallic ores Oil sands Oxide ores Precious metal ores Sulphide ores Tailings

B. MINERAL PROCESSING Agitation Agglomeration Air cyclones Autogenous grinding Classification Column flotation Comminution Crushing Dense medium separation Dewatering Electrostatic separation Elutriation Filtration Fine particle processing Flocculation Flotation froths Flotation reagents Flotation bubbles Flotation depressants

Flotation collectors Flotation activators Flotation frothers Flotation kinetics Froth flotation Gravity concentration Grinding Hydrocyclones Liberation Magnetic separation Ore handling pH control SAG milling Screening Shear forces Sizing Sorting methods Tailings disposal Thickening

C. CHEMICA/JELECTRICAL PROCESSES Activated carbon Cementation Cyanidation Electrometallurgy Electrorefining Electrowinning Hydrometallurgy Ion exchange

Leaching Oxidation Pyrometallurgy Reaction kinetics Redox reactions Reduction Roasting Solvent extraction

D. BIOLOGICAL METHODS Bacteria Biooxidation

Bioleaching Biotechnology

E. COMPUTER METHODS Artificial intelligence Expert systems Modelling Neural networks

Process control Process optimisation Process synthesis Simulation

F. ANALYTICAL METHODS Liberation analysis Mass balancing On-line analysis

Particle morphology Process instrumentation

G. MISCELLANEOUS Environmental Extractive metallurgy Mineral processing Mineral economics Mining Ore mineralogy

Particle size Pollution Reclamation Recycling Surface modification Waste processing