As it is shown with this series of experiments, the model is
applicable to mineral processes of one valuable component and
no circulating mass. Beyond that, typical mineral processing included
processes with several valuable products. The model can
handle several product processes (X–Y-ore) because the Fuerstenau
diagram can be used to study the separation of components
by changing the gangue. Having the information about the mineralogical
limiting curve and the upgrading of the components, the
parameters (Blib, Bsep, Z) can be calculated for each component separately,
plotted versus particle size, and compared to each other.