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Courses Handbook 2014

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

309537 (v.4) Process Mineralogy 562

Area: Department of Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Introduction to mineralogy as applied to mineral processing. Elementary crystallography, crystal structures, polymorphs and crystal chemistry including solid solution in minerals. A detailed study of the principal ore minerals including native metals, sulphides and oxides. Trace and minor elements in ore minerals with particular reference to economically important trace constituents. For example, refractory gold in sulphides, and deleterious elements (toxic heavy metals in sulphides), Mineralogy of the more common ore deposit types (gold, PGE, base metals and Fe-Ti oxides) with emphasis on mineral processing, zoning in ore deposits, mineral textures and liberation. Instrumental methods applied to mineralogy including reflected light microscopy, x-ray diffraction, x-ray fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy, electron and ion microprobes. Some discussion will also be made introducing the relevance of process mineralogy into the discipline of geometallurgy.
Field of Education: 030305 Materials Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2014 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2     Y    
2014 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y        

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