heavy-media separation

heavy-media separation

[′hev·ē ‚mēd·ē·ə ‚sep·ə′rā·shən]
(mining engineering)
A series of processes for the concentration of ore developed at one time, but now used in coal cleaning; uses suspensions of magnetic materials such as magnetite.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The majority of these plants use heavy-media separation systems.