Dewatering: Thickening, Filtering, CCD, Water Treatment & Tailings Disposal

Dewatering: Thickening, Filtering, CCD, Water Treatment & Tailings Disposal

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Started by OratileM
We have a problem with the Tailings thickener.It does not settle solids and the overflow has no clarity. The feed rate is 90m^3/h at the density of 1.12.The flocculant has been changed more than 3 times. It is dosed at full speed but there's no chang...
Last replied to by SmartDog
You did not mention the size of your thickener, this can play a big part in acchieving settling.  Next, pH is also a key point and matching it to your flocculant.  Then dosage rate and interaction w...
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Started by Surry
Is it possible to change the location of air blowing section of vacuum disc filter (bag filter)?
Last replied to by SmartDog
The simple answer is, yes, but why?  The air blow is normally/usually at the discharge point to help remove material from the cloth.  Why would you want it some where else?
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Started by alenme
Hi   Does anyone have recommendations on the dissolved oxygen for the SO2/air process.   I could reach to 5-7 g/g SO2 to CN ratio and 8-10 pH ranges with 50 ppm of Cu but almost no recommendation is there in the literature regarding DO.
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Last replied to by Jorge
Regarding the Dissolved Oxygen (DO) in the reactors, it is important to maintain a low content, that usually should range from 2 to 5 mg/L. The equipment to determine the DO should be calibrated const...
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Started by jeremy190
Hi everyone, I am a Chemical Engineering student and I am doing Plant Design course. In our plant, I have to size the Horizontal Vaccum Belt Filter for phosphoric acid production from phosphate rock. I am trying to look for a document about how to si...
Last replied to by SmartDog
The simplest is just using the lab vacuum filter such as: https://www.sepor.com/product/laboratory-batch-vacuum-filter/ Which will give you the approximate filter rate, doing a timed filter test:  p...
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Started by Adimulu
Hello, We are running a dry stacking tailing storage facility, that include filter presses and the filtrate water is recycled for reuse in processing plant. Our current storage facility is at its lowest capacity and new facility is under constructio...
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Last commented on by Adimulu
Thanks Mike
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Started by anjanisail
Do any body have data related to Rise rate to be consider for the sedimentation of slurry inside the High Rate Thickener. I want this for calculating the size of thickener in case of High rate thickener for iron ore concentrate and tailings.
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Last replied to by Jorge
A typical engineering design considers that a magnetite concentrate will be pumped to dewatering magnets installed ahead of the storage tanks to ensure a concentrate density target of 60 to 65% w/w so...
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Started by anjanisail
I want to know what iom iron ore tailing dam. What are the losses we need to consider from tailing dam. 
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Last commented on by anjanisail
Thanks a lot sir. I want to know sir what is the percentage amount of water we can recover from Iron ore tailing dam. Ex if we throw 1000 m3/hr of water in tailing pond then how much water we will be ...
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Started by anjanisail
How to correlate pilot scale data of Pressure filter with that for designing of plant. What will be the effect on Cycle Time consideration. How to calculate size of filter.
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Last commented on by anjanisail
Thanks a lot sir. What is the effect of - 40 micron particle in pressure filtration. What is the effect of Silica/ Alumina ratio in filtration. Is high silica to Alumina ratio is beneficial for filtra...
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Started by anjanisail
What is the percent of water we can recover from iron ore tailing dam. What are the losses we need to consider from tailing dam. 
Last replied to by SmartDog
Water recover from a tailings system is dependent on the characteristics of the material.  If the tails are low in clay and fines perhaps 50%, if the tails have a high amount of fines and clay 10% re...
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Started by annaheric
Can anyone help with minimising frothing in flotation thickeners? Frother in use is MIBC. Different options of adding carbon depressants in addition to flocculant have been trialed with no significant success.
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Last commented on by annaheric
Yes its taking days but do know any defoamer that can be used to break froth?
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Started by Carloe
hello everyone, i am trying to determine the appropriate dose for coagulant or flocculant in a settling test for a slurry stream that has 5% solids from the tailings dam.  
Last replied to by SmartDog
see: https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/settling-and-thickening-test-procedure  
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Started by Darrel
Hi all, How to remove or precipitate base metal such Cu, Zn, Fe in solution tailings of cyanide destruction by INCO process. The regulation limit 2 ppm and the actual residual about 15 ppm. The head about 20ppm. Our process running with pH 10-11. ...
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Last replied to by Reactor
Hello Darrel, Are you still looking for an effective and economical way to precipitate base metal such Cu, Zn, Fe in solution?
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Started by Millza79
To anyone with operational experience with filter presses, If you get large throughputs of flotation concentrate to filter press (due to high head grades etc) than design or typical, how do you manage it? Does the filter press become a bottleneck a...
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Last replied to by Philipo
better to install  a surge tank. you don't have to slow down the mill throughput to keep up with your filter presses. your surge tanks must keep the balance. Not only about the throughput, but when t...
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Started by Jorge Quintanilla
Friends: My name is Jorge Quintanilla, I am a Bolivian citizen (south america) I am involved in expansion plant project in Colquiri Mine, Bolivia. The project has three thickeners.Tin concentrate thickener 30 ft x 10 ft .Zinc concentrate thickener ...
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Last replied to by Todd H
Outotec  https://www.outotec.com/products-and-services/technologies/thickening-and-clarification/ There are also good Chinese suppliers, send us a note at equipment@911metallurgist.com if you are i...
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Started by Millza79
Does anyone have some typical annual consumption numbers for filter cloths? I.e. tonnes of concentrate produced/square metres of cloth?
Last replied to by SmartDog
Since one of the key wear factors is how the scraping and air blow is handled, the hours of operation is the figure normally kept.  While the amount of material filtered is a factor, the amount of fi...
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Started by Jorge Quintanilla
dear friends.. I have the task of installing, starting and leaving working three new thickeners for Zn, Sn concentrates and slimes.To perform the slurry density measurement in the under flow, nuclear densimeters are used. We want to avoid using thes...
Last commented on by SmartDog
Actually find an instrumentation engineer over 50 years old and he can probably put one together for you.
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Started by oduro
hi, is there anyway of reducing flocculant consumption both at the CIL and CCD thickeners apart from lime
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Last replied to by David
Yes, just add less! Also, how are you adding it? How much dilution water? ADD DILUTION WATER  LOTS OF IT
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Started by Ayanda
Hi, I am trainee at a Biox plant. Can anyone please share any information on how to assist reduce colloidal gold(gold suspended in liquid). We're losing alot of gold suspended in the wash liquor at the CCDs. Has anyone faced anything like this before...
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Last replied to by dauren.abralin
Does design consider loses of colloidal gold with CCD o/f's? I used to work on some BIOX plants and it seems to to me that this colloidal gold was a kind of myth. For Suzdal gold mine design criteria ...
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Started by bobo12
Good day Everyone I have conducted settling rate tests and i recorded height of the interface after every 30 seconds. So how do i calculate the overall settling rate of the flocculated material.??  Thanks Bobo        
Last replied to by SmartDog
see: https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/settling-and-thickening-test-procedure  
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Started by Hamid72
Hello everybody I have some question What is the effect of feeding pressure and slurry percent solid on final moisture?  Thanks for your attention
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Last replied to by Jorge
Follow the link below to review some information, https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/slurry-filtering-concentrate-filtration https://www.911metallurgist.com/equipment/vacuum-disk-filter/  
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Started by Teggry
Just a Bit of a Naive question. Can cyanide be washed out of slurry if put through a number of CCD's to wash it?
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Last replied to by Reactor
If the CN ppm is high enough why not look at recovery versus destruction?
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Started by Message
Hi met community how you doing? i hope all will be fine.Now my question or the thing that i want help is about the problems occurring in the thickener last night when i was on duty on the thickener,the thickener overflow was become dirty and it was c...
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Started by CA
We have an application that requires a 1.5" x 1" slurry pump. However, the spare pumps that we have available are a Warman 3/2 and a Flowserve 2.5/2.  We would like to try to reduce the throughput of these pumps by changing out the pulleys and/or u...
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Last replied to by Todd H
As mentioned you need the pump curve to know the impact of changing speeds, it is not a linear relationship except for a small portion of the curve (typically).  You can do a couple of other things: ...
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Started by vaheedghassemy
hello friends  I want to make a vacuum drum filter but i dont know how i can calculate required surface of drum . we have slurry with 20% soil(200 micron) and flow is 14000 lit/hour the eye of filter must be 50 micron. can you help me please. tha...
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Last commented on by vaheedghassemy
hello and thanks a lot
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Started by smhs
I use different surfactants to improve function of filtration. The pulp i used for the tests is the output of the leach stage and has pH 2. According to the result of XRD analysis and pzc of minerals in the pulp, I predicted that the anionic surfacta...
Last replied to by SmartDog
Not trying to be sarcastic (okay a little), but the old fashioned way of doing lab testing is often the most reliable.   The are lot of things going on that theoretical work can miss, such as minera...
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Started by NP
Hello,Please, I need the help about the process of using hydro-sizers/aquasizers (upward water stream classification), and how the upward water stream affect the U/F PSD. Hydro-sizers are vertical and I saw them, but aquasizer looks like thickener, b...
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Last replied to by Todd H
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX-IjGjUOh0 They both work on the same principle of elutriation, upward velocity of water overcomes the gravity pulling particles down.  The higher the flow the coars...
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Started by Hannes
Hello All. I need some help or insight on different cone designs between the scalloped floor and flat cone floor design. What are the pros and cons of the different designs?
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Last commented on by David
Great find Rod https://www.911metallurgist.com/design-of-scalloped-bottom-thickener-tanks/
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Started by cesararaya
Hello, I introduce myself, my name is Cesar Araya and I am a student of metallurgy and I am looking for a program to simulate a thickening or clarifying process. I have been told that with metsim I can simulate, but I do not know how, and the hsc che...
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Last replied to by TonyE
Hi Cesar I do free excel apps for students. Tony synthan.services@gmail.com  
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Started by Hamid72
Hello every body. In our plant we have orion pump for feeding our press filter. Their pressure rate in the feeding cycle is constant absolutely. They have only soft start have not variable speed drive to change feed pressure at feeding cycle. And we...
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Last replied to by RodC
As people note, the pump should be designed for the application.  A constant flow PD pump for example is probable the worst type for a filter press.   Depending on the filter press size a flows the...
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Started by raveendra
We are operating a VBF to filter our tail thickener U/F to produce a cake of moisture 15-20% to make paste for U/G. Flocs are used in the process. We get substantial carry back during the filter press sometime even had to utilise labor permanently to...
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Last replied to by RodC
Ravendra - if I understand solids are accumulating on the filter and requiring it to be cleaned?   May sure the cloth sprays on both side of the filtration fabric are clean and the water pressure is...
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Started by Rofabri
I need help in selecting a mixer to mix a 20% solution of hydrated lime into water. Anyone have advice?
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Last commented on by Rofabri
This not slaking lime - it is mixing already slaked/hydrated lime with water.
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Started by Hamid72
Hello everybody What is the best method for cleaning and washing press filter cloth to reuse. Which solution clean better the cloth?   Our particles are mostly  chalcopyrite. Thankyou
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Last replied to by pepperd
Cloth washing options depend very much on the size of the filter press / filter plates.  On 470mm or 630mm filter plates, there is likely no cloth wash system, and washing would be done manually, eit...
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Started by Robert
If so the proceedings from Paste 2017 and Paste 2015 are available, open access: https://papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/f/paste Read away and comment or question here.  
Last replied to by David
this is how little I know... Basics of Paste Backfill Systems https://www.911metallurgist.com/basics-paste-backfill-systems/
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Started by knvaid
I am looking for best polymer for thickening Kaolin clay slurry without affecting its brightness value. Anyone can help us in this regard? and aslo what should be the dosage of that polymer?
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Last commented on by knvaid
Respected, I have sent you a mail before 2 days but i am not getting reply. I am looking for favourable reply from your side.
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Started by Teggry
Hi I have recently been involve in commissioning a filter belt. We are getting some loud howling noises coming from it and I have pretty well ruled out drive drum slipppage. Any ideas?
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Last commented on by Robert
Does it get worse as: - belt is more heavily loaded - vacuum is increased

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