Assessment of a spodumene ore by advanced analytical and …
The spodumene associated with the locked (4–5%) and middling (15–26%) classes in both Pil2 and Pil3 samples are much less than the Pil1 sample. The spodumene particles in the locked class in Pil2 consists of low abundance of spodumene at 3 wt%, associated mainly with quartz (59 wt%) and moderated amounts of feldspars (29 wt%).
