DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A DENSE MEDIA .
amongst others. The dense media (DM) cyclone has been installed in over one quarter of the coal preparation plants worldwide (Reeves, 2002). de Korte (2000) reported that about 93% of the 58 coal preparation plants in South Africa employed DM cyclones. DMS processes offer some advantages over the other beneficiation processes (England et al, 2002):