**Author details**

Edris Madadian1,2\*

\*Address all correspondence to: edris.madadian@mail.mcgill.ca

1 Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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2 Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
