Laboratories and Facilities

Max Bowen Mineral Processing Laboratory

The mineral processing laboratory at the Mining Engineering Department of The Colorado School of Mines (CSM), serves as an interdisciplinary link between mining metallurgy and environmental engineering disciplines.

Activities at this laboratory include the following:

*Teaching
*Research
*Industrial problem solutions
*Continuing education courses and
*Consulting services through CSM-managed contracts

Relatively small-size classes, enhance the teaching function of this laboratory, (MNGN323) to proceed in tandem with the Mineral Processing Lecture Course, (MNGN322).

The following are examples of project capabilities of the mineral processing laboratory:

*Chemical Analyses and Assays
*CIP/CIL Studies
*Coal Washing and De-sulfurization
*Column Flotation
*Contact Angle Measurement
*Corrosion Studies
*Critical Surface Tension of Wetting Measurement
*Crushing
*Cyanidation and Thio-urea leaching
*Dewatering
*Drying
*Filtration
*Flocculation
*Flotation
*Gravity Separations
*Grinding
*Heap, Column and Agitated Tank Leaching
*Heavy Liquid and Heavy Media Separation
*Industrial Minerals Processing
*Magnetic Separation
*Optical Microscopy and Mineralogy
*Particle size determinations
*Perlite expansion
*Physical and Chemical powder Characterizations
*Plastics and Metal Recycling
*Pressure Leaching
*Process Design
*Sample Preparation
*Sampling
*Sieving
*Solvent Extraction and Electrowinning (SX/EW)
*Surface Area Determination
*Surface Chemistry
*Tabling
*Tailings Management
*Thickening, Thickener Design
*Zeta-Potential measurements