Applications of a model for the analysis of liberation from a binary system

Abstract The liberation model recently developed by Klimpel and Austin for liberation from a binary system was reduced to a number of useful limiting cases. Analytical solutions to the model were obtained for several assumed grain size distributions of the minor component. These solutions are algebraic equations capable of predictive use with a hand calculator. They can be used for back-calculation of the starting grain size distribution employing very simple trial-and-error search procedures. The use of these special model solutions is illustrated on several sets of experimental liberation data, and the approach is shown to have practical utility.