Handbook

The objective of this course is to provide mining engineering students a background in mineral processing with a focus on geometallurgy. Geometallurgy is considered the practical application of mineralogical knowledge  to predict and optimise how an ore can best be mined and processed. With a lesser number of high grade deposits more and more low grade ores have to be processed. Low grade deposits are difficult to process due to their complex nature, and they usually have much higher operating costs. Geometallurgy will improve the effectiveness of processing of low grade where there is significant mineralogical and grade variation in the orebody.