Advances in Geometallurgy
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2015) | Viewed by 14405
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mineral processing; grinding; flotation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Geometallurgy combines geological and metallurgical information to create a spatially-based predictive model for mineral processing plants in which the mine-to-mill concept is used. This is a strongly growing area, both for research and as an industrial practice answering diverse needs for more efficient use of our primary resources. As a research is multi-disciplinary and includes areas such as sampling, sampling theory, resource characterization, geostatistics, resource evaluation, process mineralogy, metallurgical testing, modelling of mineral processes, mine planning, tailing management, production scheduling and economical optimization.
For this special issue on geometallurgy, we welcome papers on all areas of geometallurgy. They can cover theories behind geometallurgy, methods to be used in resource characterization and geometallurgical testing, modelling and simulation from a geometallurgical perspective and holistic production optimization. Especially welcome are case studies which demonstrate the value of geometallurgy in the mining industry.
Prof. Dr. Jan Rosenkranz
Prof. Dr. Pertti Lamberg
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Minerals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- geometallurgy
- mine-to-mill
- resource characterization
- holistic resource estimation
- process mineralogy
- metallurgical testing
- process modelling and simulation
