Courses Handbook 2009

5633 (v.6) Mineral Processing 561


Area: WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Mineralogical analysis, liberation, sampling, metallurgical balances particle size analysis and distribution functions, screening, classification, crushing, grinding, gravity separation, dense medium separation, washability curves, magnetic separation, electrostatic separation, ore sorting. Solid-liquid separations - flocculation, thickening, centrifuges, filtration and thermal drying. This unit has on-site laboratory requirements.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030303 Mining Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 1 Y        
2009 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 1     Y    

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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