Welcome to the world-renowned series of technical monographs, published by the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) for the practising engineer.
JKMRC publishes a unique and widely-lauded series of monographs on mining and mineral processing, designed to help practitioners do a better job in operations, consulting, engineering services and research. These books combine practical method with scientific rigour by the world-renowned expertise available at JKMRC, and its peer groups, to deliver effective solutions to problems that professionals are required to solve in the field. Because of the applied research basis of the expert knowledge captured in the monographs, the books can also be a valuable aid for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Each book is designed as an integrated approach to a particular topic, written by top experts in the field and including many illustrative case studies.
- Mineral Comminution Circuits is the standard work on the operation and optimisation of comminution and classification circuits, and a guide to process simulation using JKSimMet.
- Open Pit Blast Design covers the blast design and monitoring methodology developed by JKMRC researchers over many years of applied research in Australia and overseas.
- Block Caving Geomechanics makes available the knowledge gained in the first International Block Caving Study.
- Guidelines on Caving Methods builds on this knowledge based on the succeeding Mass Mining Technology research program.
- Metal Balancing and Reconciliation provides metallurgists and geologists with the information necessary to practice these essential skills and complements the Draft Code of Practice developed as part of an AMIRA project.
- Statistical Methods for Mineral Engineers is a comprehensive and practical guide to collecting and analysing data, including plant trials
- Process Mineralogy is a wide-ranging treatment of principles, methods and technologies in this vital process discipline.
Explore the series below.
2. Process Mineralogy
Written by a collection of internationally recognised specialists, this book is a practical and informative resource for anyone whose job is related to minerals and their processing.
Edited by Megan Becker, Elaine Wightman and Cathy Evans
As the title suggests the book is about process mineralogy and provides information on a number of the currently available tools for mineral characterisation together with a wide range of examples showing how they can be applied. The chapters of the book have been divided into three main sections with the first highlighting a number of the key tools and techniques used to collect the mineralogical data needed to measure process performance. Information on how to apply the resulting data in process analysis is provided in the second section of the book while the final section is dedicated to case studies. The case study section provides a unique collection of examples which demonstrate current practice in the selection and application of characterisation tools to solve process mineralogy problems in a broad range of commodities and processing contexts.
Topics include:
- Sample collection and preparation.
- Specialised and advanced mineralogical characterisation tools.
- How to use the data.
- Examples from a wide range of commodities including: base and precious metals, coal and iron ore.
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Monograph review
"Generally I think this is an excellent book for metallurgists.
Some of the detail in section one might be overlooked by the typical plant and research metallurgist but the mineralogists and researchers will appreciate them. In any event they stand as what appear to me to be excellent and very detailed reference chapters. Sections two and three go straight to the heart of the practising metallurgist with a great list of references for further investigation.
The case studies have been well chosen to cover a very wide range of ore/process applications/problems and certainly represent “best practice” in the application of mineralogical methods described earlier. The chapters generally give practising plant metallurgists something to aspire to in their own operations.
The book editors are to be congratulated for compiling it."
– Peter Tilyard, Tilyard Metallurgical Services Company