By Benjamin Wallace
“Part detective tale, half wine background, this is often one juicy story, even for people with no real interest in the fruit of the vine. . . . As scrumptious as a real classic Lafite.” —BusinessWeek
The Billionaire’s Vinegar tells the genuine tale of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by way of Thomas Jefferson—that bought for $156,000 at public sale and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. was once it really entombed in a Paris cellar for 2 hundred years? Or did it come from a mystery Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly marvelous con artist?
As Benjamin Wallace unravels the secret, we meet a gallery of interesting players—from the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as though they're girls to the obsessive wine collector who came upon the bottle. Suspenseful and thrillingly unusual, this is often the classic story of what may be the so much tricky con because the Hitler diaries. Updated for paperback with a brand new epilogue.
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With a proper control of these parameters a sequential selective flotation has been found possible for a large number of ores, comprising solidified mixtures of sulfides liberated at relatively coarse sizes from nonsulfide gangue minerals. e[ IAI 95 . . . . . . . . ·. . ·. ·.... ' ...... / .... ' ... -:~ ....... 7. Threshold concentration of collector. , CA, Cc , and CB , for a 95% recovery. Such differentiation is the basis for selective separations by flotation. However, in practice the selectivity is achieved not so much through different concentrations of collector alone but through a combined effect of activating and depressing agents together with the collector species.
Sutulov (1974) gives detailed accounts of the world's porphyry deposits, the associated processing technology, and metallurgical production data. At present, porphyry copper deposits are responsible for approximately half of the total copper production. The need to supply the market requirements from such low-grade ores resulted in a spectacular development of the open pit mining technology and, at the same time, in an equally spectacular increase in throughput of associated flotation plants. Some 50 years ago, flotation plants had 100-300 tonne/day capacities and "-' 25 years ago, 1000-3000 tonne/day capacities, whereas most of the recently constructed plants range from 20,000 to 60,000 tonnes/day, with a few which are in the 100,000-175,000 tonne/day range.
The first attempt at selective separation of galena from sphalerite was made in 1912 at the Zinc Corporation mill in Broken Hill, Australia [Diamond (1967)] and that of a selective separation of chalcopyrite from pyrite by the Granby Company at Anyox, British Columbia, Canada, in 1918 [Petersen (1967)]. The reagents employed were distillation products of coal or wood: coal tar creosote and wood tar or wood oils. t Once xanthates were introduced in 1923, the selective flotation separations of individual sulfides proved unusually successful from ores containing dolomitic gangue minerals, especially when the valuable sulfides were liberating at relatively coarse sizes.