beneficiation

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beneficiation (countable and uncountable, plural beneficiations)

  1. The reduction in size of particles of ore (or similar physical processing) before further processing to recover the metal
    • 1968, National Research Council (U.S.). Materials Advisory Board. Committee on Technical Aspects of Critical and Strategic Materials, Trends in Usage of Beryllium and Beryllium Oxide, page 2:
      The beryl is cobbed out by hand, since no method for successful beneficiation has been developed and applied.

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