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in the broad sense to include ore extraction, quarrying, and beneficiating (e.g., crushing, screening, washing, sizing, concentrating, and flotation), customarily done at the mine site. beneficiation is the process whereby the extracted material is reduced to particles which can be separated into mineral
primarily use chemical and electrochemical processes, such as electrolysis, distillation, and so on. however some treatments, such as heat treatments, take place in both stages: the beneficiation and the manufacturing (i.e., smelting/refining) stages. the range of preparation activities varies by mineral...
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