Recovery and grade in mineral processing is strongly determined by grain size distributions in the ore and in the beneficiation products, mineral liberation size and mineral associations.

Traditionally, the measurement of these core characteristics was only carried out to a limited extent, and the measurements employed optical microscopy and/or a semi-automated SEM.

These methods were time consuming, costly and usually produced only semi-quantitative results from data sets that were too small to be statistically useful. The MLA vastly increases the speed and accuracy of liberation analysis, while introducing a high degree of measurement automation. Routine measurements are now a reality.

The MLA system comprises:
. An off-the-shelf FEI Quanta scanning electron microscope (SEM);
. An energy dispersive X-ray analysis system (EDS) and
. The MLA software suite developed by JKTech.

Key contact: Dr Ying Gu, MLA Group Manager

JKTech offers the MLA to industry, educational and research institutions through the extensive distribution network of our hardware partner FEI Company.