Selected Projects
Canadian Tungsten
Size distribution and locking relationship between tungsten
bearing minerals in metallurgical test products. Identification
of sulphide and gangue phases. Key minerals: wolframite, hubnerite,
scheelite.
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Canadian Palladium
Palladium table concentrates and tailings: mineralogical description,
size distribution and modal analysis of three groups of palladium-bearing
minerals (palladium arsenides, palladium bismutho-tellurides
and palladium nickel sulphides) by optical microscopy and
SEM/EDS analysis. Key minerals: pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite,
pentlandite, millerite.
Turkish Copper Cobalt
Size distribution and locking relationships of copper and
cobalt bearing minerals in crushed ore fractions. Optical
microscopy and electron microprobe analysis. Key minerals:
cobalt-rich pyrite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite.
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Algerian Iron Ore
Optical microscopy study to determine size distribution and
locking relationships between phosphorous bearing phases.
Key minerals: magnetite, hematite, apatite.
Eastern European Copper Zinc
Altered basalt head sample and mixed copper concentrates.
Mineralogical description, ore characterisation and liberation
study. Key minerals: altered basalt, pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite,
bornite, chalcocite, covellite.
Eastern European Iron Ore
Iron ore, crushed exploration drill core and magnetic separation
test products. Mineralogical description, mineral associations
and liberation of magnetite. Key minerals: magnetite, hematite,
ferromagnesium minerals.
Irish Lead Zinc
Mineralogical description, size distribution and modal analysis
of head samples and mill products. Key minerals: galena, sphalerite,
pyrite.
Kyrgyzstan, Copper Tailing
Identification of copper bearing minerals, size distribution
and locking relationships. Key minerals: chalcopyrite, malachite/
azurite, chalcocite/ covellite, native copper.
Greenland, Lead Zinc Concentrate
Mineralogical description, size distribution and locking relationships
of lead and zinc minerals. Key minerals: galena, sphalerite,
pyrite.
(Note: example reports have been modified to maintain commercial confidentiality)
