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Article: Databases for mineral processing.
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- Mining Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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Although mineral processing software is gaining popularity, facilities to store, access and manipulate large amounts of process data are only available minimally.
The advent of microprocessor and simpler programming tools are making available a myriad of computational tools to a mineral process engineer. In a relatively short space of time, desktop computing has become a reality for mineral process engineers in performing duties ranging from carrying out computer simulation for process design and improvement to generating daily plant and management reports. In addition, more and more plants are being equipped with distributed control systems leading to the use of ...