Wills’ Mineral Processing Technology compiles the major aspects of ore processing and segregation, from the influence of ore mineralogy to engineering and financial factors, as well as environmental concerns, into one source. Impressively, it largely succeeds in this aim, providing a fairly complete exposition of techniques and practices used in the ore processing industry to convert the raw ore feed to concentrate. It is unavoidably too brief in some aspects, but in general it provides a good introduction for students and others interested in the field of ore processing. Given that many of the techniques described are also in use in geology and related fields albeit on a laboratory scale, the book will appeal to a much wider audience.

The present book is the seventh edition of this work with a new editor (T.J. Napier-Munn) and extended set of contributing authors, with the aim of bringing the text up to date with current techniques and practices. Although largely successful in this aim, the editor decided to preserve as much as possible of the original, thereby restricting the scope of the revisions. This is unfortunate, as it has resulted in some lack of coherence in the book. Where several chapters are concise and well presented, others are wordy and contain minor typographic errors. Some chapters also dwell …

WILLS’ MINERAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ORE TREATMENT AND MINERAL RECOVERY Seventh edition, by B.A. Wills and T.J. Napier-Munn. (2006) Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Burlington, Massachusetts. 456 p. ISBN: 978-0-7506-4450-1. $59.95.

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