Graeme Jameson
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Graeme John Jameson AO FRS FAA FTSE (born 1936) is an engineer, professor and Director of the Centre for Multiphase Processes at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in New South Wales, Australia.[1] He is notable for being the inventor of the Jameson Cell mineral separation device, which he devised in the 1980s. The Jameson Cell uses bubbles to separate super fine particles during mineral processing.[2] It is based on the froth flotation mineral separation process, first invented in 1905.[3][4][5]
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Graeme Jameson | |
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Born | Graeme John Jameson |
Alma mater | University of New South Wales University of Cambridge (PhD) |
Known for | Jameson Cell |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mineral processing Flotation[1] |
Institutions | University of Newcastle, Australia |
Thesis | The behaviour of a bubble in a vertically oscillating liquid, and allied topics (1963) |
Website | www |
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In the coal industry alone, Jameson's cell has retrieved A$36 billion worth of export coal particles.[2] It is being used worldwide in the separation of coal, copper, lead, nickel, platinum, silver and zinc.[3]