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Dr José Ángel Delgadillo Gómez is the Director of Minpro University and a Founding Partner of Minpro Consultants. He is a consultant and trainer for mining companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Chile and Nicaragua. He has over 29 years' experience optimising mineral processing plants in the mining and metallurgical industry. He graduated from the
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Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation. Many areas of unusual geology that contain ore-bearing bodies also support unique ecological communities of plants and animals. Increasing demand to exploit rich mineral deposits can lead to a conflict between mining and conservation interests in such landscapes. This book
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by Fernando Concha A., Juan Luis Bouso A. ...

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This book covers topics on engineering science, technology and applications of the classification of particles in liquids suspensions in hydrocyclones. It is divided into 12 chapters starting with the introduction of the hydrocyclone to the mining industry and its several applications of classification, followed by the fundamentals of classification. A special chapter on the fundamentals of
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by Alastair Cameron, Liz Withey ...

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Series series Fuels and Petrochemicals
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