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MINE-3634: Fundamentals of Mineral Processing

Description: Principles of mineral processing with an emphasis on metallurgical data evaluation, unit operations, and flowsheet configurations. Metallurgical accounting, slurry calculations, grade-recovery relationships, chemical aspects of mineral processing, and particle size analysis. Unit operations including rushing, grinding, size separation, gravity separation, magnetic and electrostatic separation, froth dewatering. Laboratory investigations of the unit operations and principles of mineral processing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: CHEM-1035 and GEOS-1004 and MINE-2504

Required By: MINE-3644

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 5

Average GPA: 3.36 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 26.14%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Roe H Yoon202241.6%55.9%2.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.393
Michael Strickland202361.6%30.0%0.0%0.0%8.3%0.0%3.322

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