Beneficiation of Hard Rock Lithium Ore and the Effect of Calcination

Calcination is a compulsory pre-treatment during the processing of spodumene ores that transforms a-phase of spodumene to ß-phase that is more reactive. This conversion happens at high temperatures above 900 °C. The resultant ß-spodumene has highly altered physical properties with 30% more volume th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nazir, Muhammad Kashif
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/91830