Towards large scale microwave treatment of ores: Part 1 – Basis of design, construction and commissioning

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Towards large scale microwave treatment of ores: Part 1 – Basis of design, construction and commissioning

Despite over thirty years of work, microwave pre-treatment processes for beneficiation of ores have not progressed much further than laboratory testing. In this paper we present a scaleable pilot-scale system for the microwave treatment of ores capable of operating at throughputs of up to 150tph. Th...

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Main Authors:	Buttress, A.J., Katrib, Juliano, Batchelor, A.R., Jones, D.A., Craig, D.A., Royal, T.A., Dodds, Chris, Kingman, S.W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2017
Subjects:	Microwave; Ore; Copper; Pilot scale; Fracture; Beneficiation
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42847/

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