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Title: CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF QEMSCAN® ANALYSIS PROCEDURE BASED ON POLISH COPPER ORES INVESTIGATION
CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF QEMSCAN® ANALYSIS PROCEDURE BASED ON POLISH COPPER ORES INVESTIGATION

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R. Kubik
10.5593/sgem2018/1.1/S01.008
1314-2704
978-619-7408-35-5
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The importance of mineralogical research in microscale increases with the need of advanced characterization and detailed quantitative analysis of ores and upgrading products. Automated mineralogy technique connected with advanced scanning electron microscopy like QEMSCAN® or MLA give a possibility to obtain comprehensive information about mineral and elemental composition, particle size distribution, liberation and associations between grains and other quantitative and qualitative data for raw materials and products of mineral processing.
These studies present stages of creation and development of specific mineral library dedicated to QEMSCAN® system and estimation of measurement parameters. Presented research is based on the results of investigation of Polish copper ores from stratiform deposit. The development of measurement procedure involved taking into account electron beam voltage, number of counts per pixel, field size, point spacing and many other variables that are described in these studies in details. Another important part of the whole research was to create and develop mineral library for QEMSCAN® - SIP (Species Identification Protocol). SIP development was based on element selection and mineral phases creation. The results obtained during our research have to help with better understanding copper ore processing results and hence technologists have the opportunity to improve the whole process and get better performance. However, the key to obtaining helpful data, is the reliability of the analysis, which was the goal of the research described in the paper.
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18th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2018
18th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2018, 02-08 July, 2018
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International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference-SGEM
Bulgarian Acad Sci; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Slovak Acad Sci; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; World Acad Sci; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Ac
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02-08 July, 2018
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QEMSCAN®; automated mineralogy; copper ore; mineral processing; scanning electron microscopy