“…Therefore, such methods are used in many disciplines including medicine, geodesy, photogrammetry, earth sciences, chemistry, astrophysics, biotechnology, and metallurgy (Maras et al, 2010). Moreover, the DIP method has been used for the evaluation of several processes such as flotation (Moolman et al, 1994;Aldrich et al, 2010), particle size distribution analysis (Kursun, 2009), and solid-liquid separation (Stanford et al, 1992) in the mineral processing discipline. Alternatively, these methods have also been researched in several studies as an alternative to traditional techniques used in ore grade analyzes (Singh and Rao, 2006;Khorram et al, 2011;Perez et al, 2011).…”