Dr Mayra Jefferson Montoya
Research Fellow
JKMRC

Journal Articles
Jefferson Montoya, M., Jones, T.R, Curtis-Morar, C., Parbhakar-Fox, A., Forbes, G. and Forbes, E. (2024). Impact of pyrite textures prevalence on flotation performance in Mount Isa copper orebodies. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 46 (4), 502-516. doi: 10.1080/08827508.2024.2349204
Forbes, E., Jefferson, M., Yenial-Arslan, U., Curtis-Morar, C. and O'Donnell, R. (2024). Solving the mystery of natural pyrite flotation – A mineralogy-based approach. Minerals Engineering, 207 108544, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.mineng.2023.108544
Jefferson, Mayra, Yenial-Arslan, Unzile, Evans, Catherine, Curtis-Morar, Catherine, O'Donnell, Roxanne, Parbhakar-Fox, Anita and Forbes, Elizaveta (2023). Effect of pyrite textures and composition on flotation performance: a review. Minerals Engineering, 201 108234, 108234. doi: 10.1016/j.mineng.2023.108234
Yenial-Arslan, Unzile, Jefferson, Mayra, Curtis-Morar, Catherine and Forbes, Elizaveta (2023). Pathway to prediction of pyrite floatability from copper ore geological domain data. Minerals, 13 (6) 801, 1-24. doi: 10.3390/min13060801
Conference Papers
Jefferson, Mayra, Forbes, Gordon, Brown, Elliot, Curtis-Morar, Catherine, Parbhakar-Fox, Anita and Elizaveta Forbes (2023). An object-based image recognition approach methodology for pyrite texture quantification in flotation performance studies. Procemin-GEOMET, Santiago, Chile, 4-6 October 2023.
Jefferson Montoya, Mayra, Yenial Arslan, Unzile, Evans, Cathy, Prabhakar-Fox, Anita, O’Donnell, Roxanne, Curtis-Morar, Catherine and Forbes, Liza (2023). Effect of Pyrite Textures and Composition on Flotation Performance. Flotation 2023 • V International Conference on Minerals Flotation, Lima, Peru, 6 - 8 Sep 2023.
Yenial-Arslan, U., Jefferson, M., Wang, J., Curtis-Morar, C., O’Donnell, R. and Forbes, E. (2023). Textural influence on flotation behaviour of Mount Isa copper deposit. World Mining Congress, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 26-29 June 2023.
Forbes, Liza, Yenial Arslan, Unzile, Jefferson Montoya, Mayra, O'Donnel, Roxanne and Curtis, Catherine (2023). Solving the mystery of pyrite flotation: a mineralogy-based approach. International Flotation Symposium in Honour of Prof Graeme Jameson, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 13-14 July 2023.
La Torre, L., Jefferson, M., Johnston, A., Concha, J. and Wasmund, E. (2021). Simulation of HydroFloat® performance in flotation circuits for early stage project evaluation. Flotation 21, Online, 8-12 November 2021.
Jefferson, Mayra, Johnston, Adam, Matias, Cesar and Davila, Nilo (2020). A roadmap to geometallurgical modeling at The Cerro Lindo VMS Deposit. Procemin - Geomet 2020, Online, 23-27 November 2020. Chile: Gecamin.
Johnston, Adam and Jefferson, Mayra (2017). Minimum criteria for reporting representativity of metallurgical samples. Procemin - Geomet 2017, Santiago, Chile, 4-6 October 2017. Santiago, Chile: Gecamin.
Jefferson, M., Fuentes, C. and Johnston, A. (2013). Mediciónes de dispersión de gas en celdas de flotación industrial. II Encuentro Internacional Metalurgia Perú 2013, Lima, Peru, 1-3 November 2013. Lima, Peru: Intermet.