The Quantitative Mineralogy of Granular Materials

摘要

Knowledge of the mineralogy of granular materials can be critical to understanding the behavior of these materials. Particles in which minerals impact process development include concentrates, flotation and leach feed materials (mining industry), cuttings (oil and gas industry), soils, dust, and precipitates (environmental science), and lunar soils and simulants (planetary research). In each of these cases, the grain size, aspect ratio, angularity, hardness, porosity and mineral association are key components of the behavior of the material and are directly related to its mineralogy.