Glossary · term
Concentration factor
Mining & Metallurgy
- Aliases
- clarke of concentration
- Domain
- Mining & Metallurgy
Definition
How much geology has enriched an element above its average in the crust before it is worth mining: about 3 for aluminium, 80 for copper, 500 for gold, over 100,000 for antimony.
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