Automated Mineral Liberation Analysis on a Multipurpose SEM

作     者：Christian Lang Matthew Hiscock Jussi Liipo Hans Otterstroem 

作者机构：Oxford Instruments NanoanalysisHalifax RoadHigh WycombeHP12 3SEUnited Kingdom Outotec Research CenterKuparitie 10FI- 28101 PoriFinland Ottab TechnologiesSturegatan 6211436 StockholmSweden 

出 版 物：《矿物学报》 (Acta Mineralogica Sinica)

年 卷 期：2013年第33卷第S1期

页      面：15-15页

核心收录：

学科分类：081901[工学-采矿工程] 0819[工学-矿业工程] 0709[理学-地质学] 070901[理学-矿物学、岩石学、矿床学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 

主　　题：mineral liberation analysis scanning electron microscope EDS 

摘      要：Ore grades are currently declining and mines are increasingly required to operate more efficiently in order to save costs and conserve resources. As a result, automated procedures to control and measure process efficiency have become popular: The demand for sustainable mining and metals processing is globally increasing. Mineral Liberation Analysis is a well established technique to analyse and optimize mining processes and its significance to process mineralogy studies and mineral & metallurgical processing has been widely reported. Dedicated systems consisting of an optimized scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and usually several X-ray detectors are an established solution. With the advent of large area SDDs (Silicon drift detector) and progress in stage automation on conventional SEMs, the speed of X-Ray acquisition is no longer a limiting factor. However, until now, the particle analysis packages on commercially available systems do not lend themselves to Mineral Liberation Analysis without significant modification. INCAMineral is a new solution for mineral liberation analysis which runs on conventional SEMs equipped with large area SDDs.