TY - BOOK ID - 134037486 TI - Applications of SEM Automated Mineralogy : From Ore Deposits over Processing to Secondary Resource Characterization PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Research & information: general KW - Zr-REE-Nb deposits KW - alkaline rocks KW - automated mineralogy KW - Khalzan Buregtei KW - automated scanning electron microscopy KW - QEMSCAN® KW - trace minerals KW - gold KW - REE minerals KW - REE carbonatite ore KW - comminution KW - multi-stage flotation KW - EDX spectra KW - MLA KW - mineral processing KW - iron ore KW - Kiruna KW - Raman spectroscopy KW - magnetite KW - hematite KW - scanning electron microscopy (SEM) KW - automated quantitative analysis (AQM) KW - spectrum quantification KW - signal deconvolution KW - fault gouge KW - 200-nm resolution KW - grain size distribution KW - Ikkattup nunaa KW - mineral maps KW - submicrometer KW - automated quantitative mineralogy (AQM) KW - scanning electron microscopy KW - ZEISS Mineralogic KW - Fiskenæsset complex KW - Feret angle KW - element concentration map KW - visualization KW - mineral association KW - bulk composition KW - grain size KW - waste of electrical and electronic equipment KW - X-ray computed tomography KW - mineral liberation analysis KW - indicator minerals KW - heavy mineral concentrates KW - till sampling KW - VMS KW - Izok Lake KW - sewage sludge ashes (SSA) KW - phosphate KW - recycling KW - recovery KW - SEM-automated mineralogy KW - mineral liberation analysis (MLA) KW - scanning electron microscope KW - raw materials KW - resource technology KW - granular material KW - petrology KW - n/a UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134037486 AB - During the last decade, software developments in Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) provoked a notable increase of applications to the study of solid matter. The mineral liberation analysis (MLA) of processed metal ores was an important drive for innovations that led to QEMSCAN, MLA and other software platforms. These combine the assessment of the backscattered electron (BSE) image to the directed steering of the electron beam for energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) to automated mineralogy. However, despite a wide distribution of SEM instruments in material research and industry, the potential of SEM automated mineralogy is still under-utilised. The characterisation of primary ores, and the optimisation of comminution, flotation, mineral concentration and metallurgical processes in the mining industry by generating quantified data, is still the major application field of SEM automated mineralogy. However, there is interesting potential beyond these classical fields of geometallurgy and metal ore fingerprinting. Slags, pottery and artefacts can be studied in an archeological context for the recognition of provenance and trade pathways; soil, and solid particles of all kinds, are objects in forensic science. SEM automated mineralogy allows new insight in the fields of process chemistry and recycling technology. ER -