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Characterization of Laterites by X-Ray Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

D. Chandra ,
C. O. Ruud ,
C. S. Barrett  and
R. E. Siemens
D. Chandra
Affiliation:
University of Denver Research Institute Denver, Colorado 80208
C. O. Ruud
Affiliation:
University of Denver Research Institute Denver, Colorado 80208
C. S. Barrett
Affiliation:
University of Denver Research Institute Denver, Colorado 80208
R. E. Siemens
Affiliation:
Albany Metallurgy Research Center Albany, Oregon 97321
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Abstract

To assure an adequate supply of such critical metals as nickel and chromium, extraction procedures must be developed to process low grade domestic sources. In optimizing these procedures it is essential to use suitable analytical procedures to characterize the materials, identify phase transformations, and determine metal and mineral association of the critical metallic elements through all stages of the process. Evaluation of complex sources such as laterites requires special material handling techniques coupled with X-ray diffraction and with optical and SEM analyses of many individual particles. A joint study by the Bureau of Mines and the Denver Research Institute using these procedures has resulted in optimizing a new modification of an extraction process.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 22: Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-4, 1978 , 1978 , pp. 65 - 76
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1978

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