Gravity Separation & Concentration Methods

Gravity Separation & Concentration Methods

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Started by Jean Rasczak
I need a Rotary Pan (De Beers Pan) for diamond recovery. Used or new will do. I was told before that the Rotary pan does not work in Brazil, apparently they prefer Jigs in Brazil. Can anybody comment on this as to why, maybe? I am very familiar with...
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Rob Riggir has kindly sent me some info already. Apologies my email address is wayne@coindemire.co.za
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Started by Bob Mathias
When it comes to very fine gold recovery in alluvial operations where throughput volume and continuity are very important, what are the top priorities to consider?How important are say Corey factors, make up of host gravel/sands, gold finesse, clear ...
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Hi Bob - did you ever get an answer to this question?
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Started by Zander Barcalow
I'm looking for methods of industrial processing of titanium ores which follows the initial "gravity separations".
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how can i increase grade of titanium (ilmenite) from iron?i mean above  65 percent with flotation
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I am mining in Ghana and wonder which type of gold washing plant are better: rotary scrubber/ trommel or drum scrubber/ trommel concentrator.
Last replied to by David
Gold Wash Plants of all sizes & budgets https://www.911metallurgist.com/equipment/alluvial/gold-wash-plants/
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Started by JohnnyD
Do we finally have a viable efficiency low-cost "Cheap" Gold Recovery Process that most can afford? Could Gravity + Intensive Leach help small mining Companies or individual process Gold in more cost effective manner? Some study in stopping the ille...
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Hi I would be interested to know if there are any new developments in this area/research. We plan on recovering gold from tailings in Zimbabwe and are faced with shortage of capital. Is there any way...
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What method would be best to use for the washing of coal tailings having ash of ranges from 45-54um
Last replied to by Treve Mildren
The old Mozley MGS certainly wasn't worth consideration due to its inability to pull sufficient material to concentrate. Development work by Gravity Mining ltd in conjunction with the Camborne School ...
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I'm working on beneficiation of barium sulfate from low grade barite ore (64.2% BaSO4) in presence of 28.01 SiO2 and 4.8 PbO.  4.8% PbO with 28% SiO2. We want to achieve min 4.2 S.G with less than 250 ppm Lead. (OCMA Standard) Does anyone have any ...
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See https://www.911metallurgist.com/blog/barite-beneficiation-process-plant-flowsheet
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Started by Amar
Just wondering if there is a better way, environmentally, to reprocess mercury-rich gold tailings other than using a retort! The tailings belong to an old Whole Ore Amalgamation process at a saprolite deposit.
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Gravity Concentrators can only recover about 60-70% of the mercury at best.
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Anyone experience any significant correlation between feed rate and grade/recovery in GRG concentration test work?If we run 50kg batch, 20 kg batch, 2 kg batch with similar feed rate and other parameters, anyone experience any significant difference ...
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Totally agree with all the above. The nugget effect calls for a larger sample size. Start-up and shutdown effects will bias results so the longer you are at steady state, the better.You need to think ...
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There is any specific reaction, to describe the process of amalgamation of gold?
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Just straight physical dissolution as sugar dissolves in water. The gold SG is 19.3 and the mercury SG 13.6 if you would take a gold concentrate and assume it is liberated largely from a host like sil...
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We have a heavy mineral sand project and we would want to use standards samples. Most of our analyses are done by heavy liquid separation to get the Total Heavy Minerals (THM). For now, we use a homogenized bulk sample for our standards but it’s n...
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Thanks for the answers.After having checked the above proposed solutions, I finally checked with the lab in charge of the standards for our Canadian open pit operation and they said that won’t be a ...
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"Diamond Soaks" for Separating Precious Metals from Precious Stones: Are There Any New and Efficient Methods Better Thank Aqua Regia Then Sieve Shakers? This is a process for recycling by separating precious stones from gold, silver, the platinum gro...
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You can use AR with ultrasonic, this will help in agitating impurities so that you have better results separating Au from other metals. Properly alloyed metals should not dissolve and leave behind lar...
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Started by Standartenfurer
We have a placer gold mine in the remote area, the grade is 0.3 ppm and the reserve is 30 million tons. We do not have water and maximum recovery with Knelson is around 40%, can anyone help for processing?
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We are working on characterization tests and will inform you the result shortly.
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We are giving feed to Rougher spiral with 58.8% Fe, Concentrate yields 60% along with 63%Fe, Again this material is sending for Second stage treatment (Cleaner stage) here its producing 64.2%Fe. But, total tailing from Spiral Circuit contains 55% yie...
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I appreciate your response and that you are planning to try out the tests suggested. If you do require a plant audit then our company CDE Asia Ltd could be of service. We have an agreement with GHD of...
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Is it possible to gravity concentrate a gold dump during the rainy season using sluices taking advantage of the natural drainage system?
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1. Size approximately 300tons no characterisation has been done yet. At lower levels visible Au is observed on panning. There is also a low grade 0.43g/t Au gravel of unknown tonnage in the area. 2. S...
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Started by Bob Mathias
The video shows one that was shown last year at electra mining. It gives some idea on how it works I just wonder how this can be applied to different mineral ores? What is the discriminatory edge with this method? Meaning how different must the dens...
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Rock of 3.0 g/cc can be separated from rock of 2.0 g/cc. Separating 3 cm2 rock from 4 cm2 rock would be a classification process using screens not spirals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O64USKI_UDs
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Might is be for base metal recovery by flotation or gold by leaching and flotation, a Mobile and Modular Process Plants only use to be a thing of the pass... no more. While gold and other placer operations (diamonds) are the big users in numbers of ...
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The old Yuba Manufacturing company which operated from the late 1890's to about 1960 built many floating dredges that also include a gravity circuit on them. I used to have a picture showing four or f...
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Started by Zander Barcalow
Can any body tell me cut- off grade of Tantalum in alluvial deposit for economical mining &processing. Tantalum present in alluvial deposit in the form of Coltan.
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Cut-offs around 150-200 pp is an industry standard to look out for, below this, you may be wasting your time. The above comments are all true. On alluvial/eluvial - overburden depth is critical. On ha...
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Started by Marshal Meru
The performance of Churn Drills on wet alluvial merits some discussion as I agree that Churn Drills are EXCELLENT on DRY-ISH ground (terraces, small creeks, paleoplacers etc) but USELESS on WET ground such as floodplains or below water tables. Possi...
Last replied to by Zander Barcalow
Whenever people suggest applying factors to assay numbers they are implicitly admitting they have sampling problems. When you use holes drilled by different machines, each producing its distinctive di...
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Could a Dredging Bucket be used for alluvial mining? I suppose it is an accessory that replaces a bucket of an excavator. Cutter head and slurry pump moved by the hydraulic. Has anyone known or worked it?
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Glad to learn the craft of dredging has yet to be classified as an extinct procedure of interest to archaeologists.
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Knowing that gold particles do not exceed 0.25mm and with the 1/32'' portion ranging between 15-20% and absence of clays.  Would it not pay off to classify further before feeding the jigs or centrifuges, say down to 1/32''?   If so are multi-deck...
Last replied to by Jean Rasczak
Agree with above comments. Classification is a method of concentration and it can be overkill at some point. Bench scale or pilot scale testing is required. The full range particle size analysis is re...
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We operate an InLine Leach Reactor (ILR) by Gekko used to leach gravity gold. The problem we have is to estimate the Au recovered using Solution assays & tons from volume measurements. The variance in gold metal we are missing is always around -...
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What are the best automatic sample cutters for the solution streams. I think the problem with solution accountability has been identified. it was due to interference with Fe ions with the use of AAS ...
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Started by JohnnyD
Using gravity concentrators like spirals or jigs, how is the water distribution estimated or calculated between Concentrate and Reject/tailings? During preparation of the Flow sheet from lab results we came across water balance of the gravity concen...
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Spirals will cut the water split to the reject such that extra water is often needed to carry the heavy concentrate to the collection point.Jig water split is a matter of hutch water addition. As the ...
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Started by Victor Bergman
I know of a placer gold mine with an average grade is 0.3 ppm (0.3 gram/tonne) and the reserve is 30 million tons. The mine located in remote area and we do not have sufficient water although we send a sample for Knelson company but the max recove...
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First to screen and reduce the weight for the value mineral, then is available a air classification for the -2 mm - 1 mm.(I do not know for 700tons/hr capacity, may be) Then Knelson of course many uni...
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When is a Heavy Media separation system applied for processing of Lead & Zinc ore? Generally processing of which type of lead and zinc ore is practical using heavy media? Which design criteria should be considered?
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Nyrstar in Tennessee has 2 processing plants using Heavy Media Separation on a 2.6% Zn sphalerite hosted in dolomite. 60% of the mass reports to tails of 0.2% Zn while the flotation feed created by t...
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How to calculate the process water and Hutch water for Iron ore processing on Jigs? How water is redistributed in hutch and process water. If there is any thumb rule to calculate hutch water for 4m and 2.5m jig area. How much water is going out throu...
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