About the Authors

Liyao Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Liyao Ma, Bin Hu

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Bin Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liyao Ma, Bin Hu

Roles Project administration

hbin74@wust.edu.cn

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Kai Cui

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Erjian Wei

Roles Investigation

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zhen Zhang

Roles Data curation

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Zeqi Wang

Roles Supervision

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory for Efficient Utilization and Agglomeration of Metallurgic Mineral Resources, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.