24-MMP-A3 Mineral Processing
Worked solutions to 6 past sittings (2013–2018), 29 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Metallurgical Balance (3 sittings): May 2018 Q1 · May 2015 Q1 · Undated paper Q1
- Mineral Processing Term Pairs (3 sittings): May 2018 Q4 · December 2017 Q3 · May 2013 Q3
- Copper Flotation Circuit (2 sittings): May 2018 Q5 · Undated paper Q1
- Cumulative Size Distribution (2 sittings): December 2017 Q4 · May 2013 Q4
- Flowsheet (2 sittings): May 2015 Q1 · Undated paper Q1
- Gibraltar Mine Copper Flotation Circuit (2 sittings): December 2017 Q1 · May 2013 Q1
- Mineral Processing Short-Answer Bank (2 sittings): December 2018 Q3 · Undated paper Q3
- Mineral Processing Term Matching (2 sittings): December 2017 Q5 · May 2013 Q5
- Sieve Analysis (2 sittings): December 2017 Q4 · May 2013 Q4
- Two-Stage Grinding Circuit Material Balance (2 sittings): December 2017 Q2 · May 2013 Q2
Questions by sitting
December 2018
- Question 1: Bell Concentrator Flowsheet
- Question 2: Iron Ore Grinding Circuit
- Question 3: Mineral Processing Short-Answer Bank
- Question 4: Niobium Flotation Plant Audit
May 2018
- Question 1: Highland Valley Copper — Metallurgical Balance
- Question 2: Heavy-Liquid Density Mixing (TBE/CCl 4 )
- Question 3: Zircon-Concentrate Flowsheet from Oil-Sands Tailings
- Question 4: Mineral Processing Term Pairs
- Question 5: Copper Flotation Circuit — Rougher/Cleaner Mass Balance
- Question 6: Fill in the Blanks
December 2017
- Question 1: Gibraltar Mine Copper Flotation Circuit
- Question 2: Two-Stage Grinding Circuit Material Balance
- Question 3: Mineral Processing Term Pairs
- Question 4: Sieve Analysis — Cumulative Size Distribution
- Question 5: Mineral Processing Term Matching
May 2015
- Question 1: The Bell Concentrator — Flowsheet, Metallurgical Balance and Operating Profit
- Question 2: Three-Product Laboratory Flotation Test on a Lead-Zinc Ore
- Question 3: Material Balance on a Two-Stage Water-Only Cyclone Coal Circuit
- Question 4: Similarities, Differences and Relevance of Nine Pairs of Terms
- Question 5: Short Answer Questions
- Question 6: Bonus — Canadian Mineral Commodities Not Concentrated by Froth Flotation
May 2013
- Question 1: Gibraltar Mine Copper Flotation Circuit
- Question 2: Two-Stage Grinding Circuit Material Balance
- Question 3: Mineral Processing Term Pairs
- Question 4: Sieve Analysis — Cumulative Size Distribution
- Question 5: Mineral Processing Term Matching
Undated paper
- Question 1: Copper Flotation Circuit – Flowsheet, Metallurgical Balance and Economics
- Question 2: Two-Stage Grinding Circuit – Circulating Load, Water Balance, Bond Power
- Question 3: Mineral Processing Short-Answer Bank