Flotation Column Cell Carrying Capacity & Scale-Up
Flotation Column Cells can only ‘carry’ or recovery so much froth/concentrate for any given diameter. Unlike a mechanical cell on which you can just turn-on more air to recover more metal, column cells with not respond that way. A column cell can only carry so much froth to the concentrate launder. Their concentrate production is […]
Gravity Gold Recovery and Gold Flotation Recovery Process
D12 Laboratory Flotation Machine Drawings & Dimensions
D12 Laboratory Flotation Machine Drawings & Dimensions In case you need the specific sizes: depth, height, weight, width of you lab float cell.
Copper Lead Concentrate Separation
The ways to obtain successful Separation of Copper and Lead into individual Concentrates, several process approaches can be examined; bulk copper-lead flotation with a reverse flotation stage depressing copper, the same bulk flotation with a reverse flotation to depress lead and a sequential copper-lead-zinc flotation circuit as well as a simple cleaning of the bulk Cu/Pb concentrate by Pb […]
Example Locked Cycle Test Results
Locked cycle tests were conducted on each of the super composites, using the flowsheet shown below. The flowsheet consisted of a primary grind to a P80 of 150 µm, followed by rougher flotation at pH 9.5 to produce a bulk sulphide concentrate. The rougher concentrate was reground to a P80 of ~30 µm prior to […]
Effect of pH on Copper Cleaner Flotation
In the study, batch cleaner tests were conducted to confirm the target regrind size and select the cleaner pH conditions. The objective of the high pH, collector-starved environment in the cleaners is: To liberate and reject attached silicates, Depress the previously-floated pyrite. If the floatability imparted on the pyrite in rougher flotation is not adequately […]
Effect of Collector on Copper Flotation Metallurgy
A pretty clean and relatively easy to treat ore was tested suggesting a collector optimization strategy would probably yield only relatively minor incremental metallurgical improvements. Therefore, collector suite fine-tuning was deemed largely better left for future optimization, possibly when the plant is in operation. In earlier studies Sumitomo had adopted the use of thionocarbamate Cytec […]
Effect of pH on Copper Flotation Recovery VS Mass Pull
An example of testing the effect of pH on rougher flotation on pit samples and the results are presented. Since this is only an example, it needs reminding that not all ores will respond the same. Here, rougher flotation is most Selective at a pH of 9.5 as pH levels in the 9 to 10 […]
Effect of Primary Grind Size on Copper Flotation
An example of a copper metallurgy study where the effect of primary grind on rougher flotation each of the GeoMetallurgical samples was investigated. A simple economic study was conducted on these copper flotation results, using typical power costs and a net smelter revenue value for copper of 90 cents. This indicated that the optimum grind was […]
Sample Preparation Flowchart
The samples set aside for the Super Composites (SC) were blended to form the four composites used for the initial flowsheet development program. Each SC was crushed to 100% passing 10 mesh and rotary split into 2 kg charges and a reject fraction. A flowchart summarizing the sample preparation procedure is presented here below. Eighteen […]