beneficiation
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun edit
beneficiation (countable and uncountable, plural beneficiations)
- The reduction in size of particles of ore (or similar physical processing) before further processing to recover the metal
- 1968, National Research Council (U.S.). Materials Advisory Board. Committee on Technical Aspects of Critical and Strategic Materials, Trends in Usage of Beryllium and Beryllium Oxide, page 2:
- The beryl is cobbed out by hand, since no method for successful beneficiation has been developed and applied.
Translations edit
reduction in size of particles of ore before further processing
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