Keywords for minerals engineering

KEYWORDS

FOR MINERALS ENGINEERING

Authors should select a maximum of five keywords. Each keyword should be accompanied the capital letter denoting the category from which the keyword has been selected. A. MATERIALS Non-ferrous metallic ores Non-metallic ores Oil sands Oxide ores Precious metal ores Sulphide ores Tailings

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

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. CHEMICAL/ELECTRICAL Activated carbon Cementation Cyanidation Electrometallurgy Electrorefining Electrowinning Hydrometallurgy Ion exchange

PROCESSES Leaching Oxidation Pyrometallurgy Reaction kinetics Redox reactions Reduction Roasting Solvent extraction

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D. BIOLOGICAL

Bioleaching Biotechnology

Bacteria Biooxidation

E. COMPUTER

METHODS Process control Process optimisation Process synthesis Simulation

Artificial intelligence Expert systems Modelling Neural networks

F. ANALYTICAL Liberation analysis Mass balancing On-line analysis

METHODS

METHODS 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