Learning from the past

Michael Nelson, Amy Richins and Dariusz Lelinski look at energy consumption in copper concentrators from the 1970s to the present

31 May 2013
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There is a currently a strong interest in reducing energy consumption in mining and milling. Thus it is interesting to look at how energy use in milling processes has changed over the past 40 years.

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