Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Flotation
This book is a compilation of articles appearing in the Mining and Scientific Press during the years 1915 to 1920. Five of the articles were reprinted in a book entitled "The Flotation Process," by T. A. Rickard, published in 1916, and seventeen of the appeared in "Flotation," by T. A. Rickard and 0. C. Ralston, published in 1917. Only small editions of these books were printed and the supply of both was speedily exhausted. Since then no book on the subject has been provided to fill the current need of those engaged in the use and development of the flotation process. Hence this volume, which, besides the twenty-two articles already mentioned, contains eighteen later articles on the subject, and thus serves as a convenient compendium of the principal literature on the technology of the process. As editor of the Mining and Scientific Press, I am responsible for the editing and selection of the material it contains. It does not pretend to be complete or final; no book that could be considered a comprehensive treatise can be written cm the theory and technique of a metallurgical process that is still so imperfectly understood and that continues to undergo such radical changes. It is my hope that the information given in this compilation of technical writings will be helpful to those engaged in the concentration of ores by flotation. If this hope be fulfilled, the book will have justified its existence.
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