Brief description
In the first five years of the twentieth century, Minerals Separation Ltd, a small London-based company, was involved in developing a revolutionary technique of ore extraction. Its work, along with that of others, emerged in response to a most serious metallurgical crisis faced by any Australian mining field in the nineteenth century. Essentially the problem was that companies involved in mining silver, lead and zinc found that the deeper they mined the lode, the more difficult these metals were to extract and separate.Full description
Minerals Separation Ltd was a small London-based company that was involved in developing a revolutionary technique of ore extraction. Its work, along with that of others, emerged in response to "the Sulphide Problem", seen by some historians as the most serious metallurgical crisis faced by any Australian mining field in the nineteenth century.
This London-based company sought to tackle the problem of extracting minerals from sulphides, especially in the Broken Hill context. In 1905, the company developed Froth Flotation, an improvement on the Potter-Delprat flotation process. Further refinements included that of Auguste de Bavay (1906) which Minerals Separation Ltd. obtained a licence for in 1910-1912.
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- AU-VU : esrc.unimelb.edu.au/OHRM#E000104
- AuCNLKIN : abv11540972
- AU-AuCNLKIN : 35149535
- Handle : 11343/59846
- AU-VU : services.ands.org.au/home/orca/rda/view.php?key=http://esrc.unimelb.edu.au/OHRM#E000104
- AU-VU:EOAS : www.eoas.info/biogs/A002061b.htm
- AuCNLKIN : nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35149535
- NLA : nla.party-479362
