The Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA) is an automated mineral-analysis system that can identify minerals in polished sections of drill core, particulate, or lump materials and quantify a wide range of mineral characteristics, such as mineral abundance, grain size, and liberation. Mineral texture and liberation potential are fundamental properties of ore and drive its economic treatment, making the data gathered by the MLA invaluable to geologists, mineralogists, and metallurgists who engage in process optimization, mine feasibility studies, and ore characterization analyses.
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MLA 650F is a high-speed automated mineralogy analyzer used in the mining Industry to optimize the performance of mineral processing operations. Compared to traditional automated mineralogy analyzers, the system reduces sample analysis turnaround time from days to hours, allowing operators to increase metal recovery by responding faster and more frequently to changes in feed and waste stream mineralogy. Also available are the MLA 250 and MLA 650 solutions.
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Chris Hamilton, Chief Mineralogist for Barrick Gold Corporation, using MLA technology
at Barrick's Technology Centre in Vancouver, Canada