The flotation of copper from copper-tin alloy was also conducted in an XFD flotation machine with 0.5 L cell volume, under following conditions: natural pH, the pulp concentration is 30%, 300 g/t of ADD and 50 g/t of terpineol for copper rougher; and 100 g/t of ADD for copper cleaner, as shown in Fig. 2. Finally, a rich copper …
However, this may result in finer grinding and slimes, and consequently, reduce the overall flotation recovery. This paper discusses the effect of wet and dry grinding on copper flotation of a complex Cu-Pb-Zn ore. Industrially, wet grinding is preferred due to its higher energy efficiency and owing to downstream processing …
Grinding and flotation tests. Synthetic copper ores were made to simulate the ores treated in a copper flotation plant. Chalcopyrite concentration in the synthetic ores was fixed at 4.9 % (corresponding to a 1.7 % copper head grade), while pyrite concentration was made at either 5 or 25 % to represent a low- or high-pyrite feed …
The reported effects of the grinding method and grinding medium upon the flotation performance of sulphide minerals has shown that the pulp chemical environment, the ore composition, the ...
In the standard flowsheet, a 1.7 kg ore sample was ground at 60% w / w solids content in the presence of the depressants in a ball mill with high-chrome balls. The flotation was performed at 30% w/w using a Denver flotation machine and 4.5 L volume cell as sequential pre-flotation, copper flotation and zinc flotation.Web
both cases (copper grade and copper recovery) the parameter effects are. similar to be varied. A maximum recovery of copper was 88,58% while the grade was 2,88. with 32,29 copper oxide on the ...
Grinding and Flotation. Fine ore at minus 19mm (¾") sizing is fed at a controlled rate into the open-circuit 2600mm x 3960mm (8'-6 x 13'-0) Hardinge rod mill at an average feed rate of 2,106 STPD or 87.75 STRH. Rod mill discharge at a nominal size of minus 16 mesh and a pulp density of 75 percent solids combines with ball mill discharge ...
According to the screening and detection analysis of the flotation tailings, the recovery of copper in -0.1+0.01mm particles of grinding minerals in the recommended scheme was better than that in the field scheme. The recommended medium ratio scheme was used to optimize the particle size composition of grinding minerals, which …
A combination treatment using 0.1 M H2O2 and 60 g/t of KAX at pH 9 enhanced the separation selectivity in the selective flotation of copper sulfide and arsenic-bearing copper minerals by producing ...
Mechanochemical sulfidization of a mixed sulfide/oxide copper ore by co-grinding with sulfur and additives including Mg(NO 3) 2 and Fe(NO 3) 3 salts and iron, aluminum and magnesium powders was investigated for the first time. Also, the influence of sulfidization during the wet-milling process was examined on the separation efficiency …
The recovery of these copper minerals by flotation or hydrometallurgy from ores, typically containing 0.5%TCu (open pit mines) and 1-2%TCu (underground …
The frothers, such as methyl isobutyl carbonyl, TEB (alkoxy paraffin and pine oil), Dow 250, Dow 1012 (glycols), HP700 and HP600 (alcohols in amine oxide) are typically used in the flotation of porphyry copper and …
For example, particles subjected to flotation should be tens of micrometers in diameter [10] and should make up a flour-like powder, is achieved over several stages of crushing and grinding. Of ...
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The present study initially investigates the kinetics of microwave-assisted grinding and flotation in a porphyry copper deposit. Kinetic tests were conducted on untreated and microwave-irradiated samples by varying the exposure time from 15 to 150 s. Optical microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and scanning electron …
Flotation of sulphidic and oxidic copper minerals is reviewed, with particular reference to previous studies of refractory copper ore flotation. Keywords: Flotation; recovery; …
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Flotation is a common mineral processing method used to upgrade copper sulfide ores; in this method, copper sulfide mineral particles are concentrated in froth, and associated gangue minerals are separated as tailings. However, a significant amount of copper is lost into tailings during the processing; therefore, tailings can be considered …
A total recovery of more than 97% of the gold and silver is made by flotation, while the combined flotation-cyanidation process gives an overall extraction of 95%. The installation is much more compact and its capital cost far less than one embodying fine grinding and cyaniding of the whole tonnage, and it can be run with …
A Copper Flotation Flowsheet. Because the copper in this type of ore usually assays only plus or minus 1% copper, the porphyry copper operations must be relatively large in order to be commercial. The flowsheet in this study illustrates a typical 3,000 ton per day operation. In general most operations of this type have two or more …
Flotation was used for rejecting discrete gangue particles, acid leaching to remove residual iron and aluminum, hydrogen reduction to eliminate oxygen, sintering to consolidate the …
Therefore,to recover their copper by flotation method, grinding should be carried out to obtain optimal particle size. Copper smelting slags in the Bardeskan district, with work index of 16.24 kwh/st, were. Copper smelting slags are hard materials. Therefore,to recover their copper by flotation method, grinding should be carried out to obtain ...
economic to acid heap leach the stockpile. The recovery of these copper minerals by flotation or. hydrometallurgy from ores, typically containing 0.5%TCu (open pit mines) and 1-2%TCu (underground ...
Fig. 1. The steel (a) and stainless-steel (b) balls used in this study. The filling rate of the both grinding media was controlled at 40%. The volume ratio of the grinding environment was set as big ball: middle ball: small ball = 4:3:3 (big ball: Φ25mm; middle ball: Φ18 mm; small ball: Φ14 mm).
Recovery of copper in concentrates from slags cooled in the induction furnace and ground for 30 minutes ranged from 87.1 to 96.2 percent with the best recovery obtained on the highest grade slag sample. Copper content of the flotation tailings, which is the most important indicator, ranged from 0.26 to 0.39 percent.
Influence of grinding on flotation of copper sulphide ores is investigated by tests in laboratory. ... The ground product (slurry from wet grinding or powder from dry grinding) was transferred to the flotation cell to make a slurry body of 4.5-litre volume by adding SPW before conditioning and flotation. The time of this transfer was kept ...
Fig. 2 shows the P 80 of different mineral species in an ore for a major copper operation. These values vary significantly, with the P 80 of total solids, sulfide minerals, iron minerals, copper minerals and molybdenum are ∼ 200, 105, 125, 94 and 85, respectively. Flotation optimization of complex ores often requires a better …
Abstract. In th e current research work, influences of particle size, grinding time, and agitation rate on. the flotation of a copper sample from Sungun copper mine (E. Azerbaijan, Iran ...
Introduction. Wet milling in ball mills followed by flotation is the general practice employed in the beneficiation of copper sulphide ores in which the major minerals of commercial significance typically are chalcopyrite (CuFeS 2), bornite (Cu 5 FeS 4), covellite (CuS) and chalcocite (Cu 2 S). The flotation response of ground minerals can …
Grinding finer particles can use more energy [50]. Generally, in the mining processes, harder materials need the higher impact energy for breakage or second stage of grinding, which can also cause ...
Dry grinding is usually preferred in regions where water is scarce and following process is dry. The effect of wet and dry grinding environment prior to flotation of sulfide ores has been a ...
To investigate the effect of grinding time on the copper flotation, the feed sample underwent different grinding periods including 20, 22, 24, 26, and 28 minutes. Then, flotation tests
According to the screening and detection analysis of the flotation tailings, the recovery of copper in -0.1+0.01mm particles of grinding minerals in the recommended scheme was better than that in the field scheme. The recommended medium ratio scheme was used to optimize the particle size composition of grinding minerals, which effectively ...
Interestingly, the copper slags were mixed with Na 2 CO 3 before grinding and the flotation results were different. Experiments on the Na 2 CO 3 dosage were conducted with a grinding time of 10 min, while Na 2 CO 3 was added before grinding. The flotation results are shown in Fig. 5 (b).
Copper 3.78%. Sulphur 42.38%. Zinc 12.45%. Gold 0.01 oz/ton. Iron 32.84%. Silver 1.50 oz/ton. Insoluble 8.50%. In order to meet smelter requirements it is desired to produce at least a 20% copper concentrate with not over 8% zinc. The copper is present principally as chalcopyrite in extremely close association with both the sphalerite …
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of wet and dry grinding on copper flotation of a complex CuPb-Zn ore. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE Materials 3 The ore used in the current study was a massive sulphide ore with a density of 4.3 g/cm and a typical head elemental assay of 0.5% copper, 1.4% lead and 8.5% zinc. ...
Liu et al. (2018) showed that the grinding medium on the flotation of two different copper sulphide ores had some effects on the particle size distributions and the copper grade of the feed, the ...
A new combined process of flotation–high-gradient magnetic separation–leaching is proposed here to recover copper minerals. The test results …
Primary grinding cyclone overflow averages 8.0 percent plus 0.208mm (65 mesh). Rougher flotation produces a concentrate and the final tailings. The rougher concentrate is reground to 76.0 to 78.0 percent passing 0.043mm (325 mesh). ... As an example, the copper flotation columns were operated with holes in the sparger fabric …