OLEH :
WINDHU NUGROHO
PS TEKNIK PERTAMBANGAN
FT UNIVERSITAS MULAWARMAN
GRAIN COUNTING
• Keterangan :
• α = derajat liberasi
• NA = jumlah butir mineral A
• SG = Specific Gravity
• Sebelum dilakukan perhitungan, perlu dilakukan sizing ukuran dari
mineral, dimana ukuran mineral harus relatif seragam satu sama
lain.
• Butiran yang akan di counting harus memiliki ukuran yang relatif
seragam atau berasal dari satu fraksi ukuran tertentu, dengan
asumsi bahwa butiran yang berasal dari fraksi ukuran yang sama
akan memiliki volume yang sama, sehingga jika diketahui jumlah
butiran masing-masing mineral dari analisis grain counting,
kemudian berat jenisnya diketahui, maka hasil perkaliannya analog
dengan berat masing-masing mineral, dengan demikian kadar
masing-masing mineral dalam sampel dapat dihitung dalam %
berat.
Mineral magnetit berwarna kehitaman dan
Mineral magnetit berwarna kehitaman mineral silika yang berwarna putih kusam,
dan mineral silika yang berwarna putih tampak mineral emas berwarna emas
kusam (sampel dari Blitar, Jawa Timur) (sampel aluvial dari Sulawesi Tenggara,
Jawa Timur)
Emas aluvial bersama-sama ilmenit
dan kuarsa (lokasi sampel
Sulawesi Tenggara)
b.Texture/Interlocking: Mutually curving boundaries with negligible interpenetration. Simple locking (Fig 2).
Liberation Properties: Fairly easy liberation. Common occurrence in simultaneously crystallized ores where interfacial free energies are similar.
c. Texture/Interlocking: Mottled, spotty, careous, with partial penetration. Relatively simple locking (Fig 3).
Liberation Properties: Fairly easy liberation. Common occurrence in ores where interreplacement processes have been active.
e.Texture/Interlocking: Disseminated, drop like, emulsion, eutectoidal locking. Finely dispersed phases (Fig 5)
Liberation Properties: Complete liberation difficult or impossible; chemical treatment often required. Common occurrence by exsolution (left) Au/arsenopyrite,
chalcopyrite/sphalerite; by replacement (right) pyrite/sphalerite.
f. Texture/Interlocking: Intergranular rim; coating mantled, enveloped, atoll-like locking (Fig 6).
Liberation Properties: Liberation may be difficult if free grain is continuously enveloped by layer. Not uncommon, often formed by replacement reaction. Eg. Hematite
film on gold; chalcocite or covellite on pyrite, galena or sphalerite.
h. Texture/Interlocking: Planar, lamellar, sandwich-type locking. Lamellae may vary in size (Fig 8).
Liberation Properties: Liberation fairly easy to variable. Produced by exsolution (Eg. Cubanite/chalcopyrite, ilmenite/magnetite). Also by replacement (Eg. Magnetite and
hematite).