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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was performed at the Materials Modelling Centre
(MMC) at the University of Limpopo in collaboration with
the Centre for Minerals Research (CMR) at the University
of Cape Town and BGRIMM Technology Group. Financial
support was received from the South African Department
of Science and Innovation (DSI) and National Research
Foundation (NRF). The computational work benefited
from supercomputing resources at the Centre for High
Performance Computing (CHPC). Also, many thanks to
International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC) for the
opportunity to share our work.
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