Laboratory Testing & General Mineral Processing Engineering

Laboratory Testing & General Mineral Processing Engineering

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Started by nchekkars
Hi,  I am in search of standard symbols for mineral processing to use in process flow sheet diagrams. Jaw crusher, SAG Mill, Ball Mill, cyclones, Slurry tank, Floatation cell, Thickener and Filter press. Thanks Navin
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Thank you
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Started by ALanyon
G'day, I've been doing some sizings from our pulverizers to attempt to find why we're getting high variation in our lab results. 2 of our pulverizers are over pulverizing creating quite hard lumps. My concern is that this may be affecting our sulp...
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Last replied to by SURENDER PAL
There is production loss of Calcium molybdate in our plant .Please Help us
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Started by arsi315
I have 2 different steel material and got them both tested and following are the results. However I am not sure which steel is better from both of the comparison. If anyone can help me out to identify it, I will really appreciate it.Sorry for the bad...
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Hi, Please, can you tell us what you want to do with these steels. The application of the material will guide you to choose which properties you should focus on. It is good to have the chemical compo...
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Started by Pillai
i have done many bottle roll trials with the same feed of the CIL/CIP tanks but bottle roll trials give lesser recovery than CIL/CIP 's recovery. Anybody had the same situation? any ideas?
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Last replied to by Bhaduri
Richard is correct. In general, the reverse situation is true viz. lower recovery at the plant, You might want to corroborate the following stepwise & check plant slurries for the same: a) Grind size,...
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Started by Oscar96UIS
How can I determine the acidity of an ore?. Where can I get more information about that.
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Last replied to by Bhaduri
Dave is correct; however, the most accurate procedural would be to perform a Leco C & S for organic/inorganic C & elemental/sulfide/sulfate S; very simplistically, the neutralization rxn may be repres...
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Started by MAP
How we could test a bentonite ore(clay) to determine if it is good for production of acid activated bleaching earth?
Last replied to by raghdmuhi
dear Mr. Pazokian Try read the attached file for big beatification, dont hesitate for any information you want best regards
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Started by markoramiusiii
Are there any settling test procedure specific for flotation concentrate pulp? I am currently testing optimal floc dosage of column flot concentrate, fed to a concentrate thickener and encountered problems such as frothy samples which makes it harder...
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Last replied to by Todd H
Concentrate should settle relatively easily if you are using the right reagents.  Froth is certainly an issue with conc but it should not impact your settling tests, in terms of interface determina...
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Started by adityakale
Gold loss in carbon fines is a major concern for gold mines. I am looking for percentage of carbon fines generated during regeneration of carbon in rotary kiln. Anyone data available from industry?
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Last replied to by rob riggir
Hi Adityakale - you are correct in that a rotary kiln with a screw feed conveyor is not the best for minimising carbon fines generation. however, if you have one installed there's not much you can do ...
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Started by owor laban
Hello Members, Please I request for guidance through  comments  I have done some sampling in Wolfram deposit and I encountered wolfram average  grade of 0.05% and tailing grade of 0.03% Ta . Please guide me here can 0.05% W  can it  be minable...
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Last commented on by owor laban
Hello Rob I used Ta symbol for stand for tailings. The wolfram in tailing was 0.03%W while average of wolfram from outcrop samples was 0.05% W is the 0.05% W grade from outcrops minable?
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Started by iron_pirate
Sample was taken from surface, curious if from this assay is this ground worth the time to stake.  
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Started by owor laban
Hello Members, please i'm developing tungsten mining and processing project with an average grade of 0.28% with gravity separation, the reserves estimates proves to be big(35Mt)with artisans present in the area as well. i therefore your guidance and...
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Last commented on by owor laban
Hi Trever, Mineralogy is reinite(scheelite) replaced by ferberite with low Mn0 content. It consists of sheeted zones parallel quartz veins with stringers in carbonaceous wall rock(sandstone, shal...
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Started by Dadson
I have a proposed pilot project for copper processing (Azurite and Malachite). Capacity for the project is 5 tonnes per day where we want to do heap leach and tank leaching. Type of acid to be used is dilute sulfuric acid. My inquiry is whats the opt...
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Last replied to by David
Dear Dadson, I will try to help for your project : - Crushing size for heap leaching feed. § 99% of the heap leaching feed should be having a size passing a screen of 1 mm. F99 is 1mm. - Extracta...
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Started by jyang
I am looking for any suggestions/input on methods to more completely digest a nickel laterite sample. Currently, my lab is using an aqua regia digestion using 5 g of pulverized sample (-200 mesh) with 25 mL of aqua regia on a hotplate. We have been h...
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Last replied to by Todd H
When you complete the aqua regia digestion how much solids are left from the original 5 grams?  You should be filtering the digestion prior to dilution and running on the AAS - I am sure you are. Th...
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Started by bolka
hi all one of my colleagues asked a question about series some slurry pumps with various sizes like as combination of 1*6/4 AH WRT pump with 2*4/3 AH pumps in one series!! i think its very strange but is it possible combine various sizes of slurry ...
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Last replied to by Mike Rockandel
When selecting pumps there always is give and take. A larger pump at low rpm or smaller pump at high rpm. A series of pumps geographically spaced could have different head requirements due to contours...
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Started by Jeffreybch
Hi, I am currently producing gold concentrates. I'd like to be able to classify them so I can sell them in the close future. A few weeks ago I was able to buy an "iCE 3300 AA Spectrometer" (Thermo Scientific), which is now installed and ready to ...
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Thanks!
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Started by ssaeed
I work for a company that is constantly doing total digestions and sequential copper analysis for different ores from around the world. A question that has come up is, what is the appropriate size of the pulverized material to conduct these tests? Cu...
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Last replied to by ssaeed
To update this question, I guess what the real inquiry was, what is the correlation  between a sample crushed to a particle size of
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Started by ssaeed
I am looking up Sulfur standards for ICP-OES and most of the standards offered are prepared in a water matrix. I have only ever seen standards prepared in what's usually a 2-5% acidic matrix. The sulfur standard we currently have at my job site is an...
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Last replied to by uboservices
Hi, you may find sulphur standard in water from: https://highpuritystandards.com/100054-5-1000-g-ml-sulfur-in-h2o/
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Started by Judeila
Dear Sir/Madam, Good day! I would like to request for your assistance in selecting inline instruments (brand/model) in measuring % solid (ores) and water in Filtration process of mining plant. Its output signal will be monitored by controller and d...
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https://www.rhosonics.nl/models/sdm-slurry-density-meter/
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Started by anjanisail
During designing the flow sheet of Iron ore Mines I encountered a problem. Initially during the sampling of ore from its faces of mines it was decided that Feed grade of the Iron Ore was like Fe= 63.2% Sio2= 2.8% Al2O3= 2.9%. Fe value fixed for the ...
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Started by Munyabrwn
Greetings Metallurgists, I recently got 2 job offers as Graduate Trainee/Learner  from a gold mine and the other from a diamond mine. So my question is which is the best route to take and why ? I hope to hear from you soon.
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Started by Dannyoung
Please, i have been given just the mill throughput of 300tph of a free milling gold ore to estimate the capital cost for purchasing and installing comminution and CIL circuits. Kindly assist me.
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I needed the list of major equipment and the direct and indirect estimated costs.
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Started by Fachrifaa
Hello Guys! I wanna ask something silly yet it's disturb me,  can someone suggest what sampling method i should use, if there is a 100 Kg of ore, and i want to do a leaching test with only 0,15 Kg / Leaching test. is it ok if i split it to 12,5 K...
Last replied to by Bob Mathias
Best split 'till the weight of the ore is 150 grams. Better yes is to do your leach test with 1000 grams
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Started by SaveMetals
Hello All,  I am trying to separate two different aluminum alloys in scrap that I'm processing where one alloy is significantly more pure (higher value) than the other. At the moment I'm thinking of trying to rod mill to reduce the size of one frac...
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Last commented on by denverphil
Oops, could blow less far if surface area high. It doesn't really matter so long as one goes further.
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Started by Aldeenor
Hello All! I am a newbie in this silica sand and washing things. I have a few very basic questions below. I hope all the experts in this forum can help me out. What does it mean when somebody is asking for Silica Sand with 99.5% SiO2? What is the...
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Last replied to by Unterstarm
Hi Aldeenor I will try my best to answer your questions and thanks for seeking help, it is a strong point but still that is not the answer to your question 1. Silica sand with 99.5% simply means tha...
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Started by Chewe
Good morning. My question concerns how to determine scale up factor of agitation leaching vessel in a leaching cascade. I'm doing leach tests for cobalt recovery from slag but the problem is in a batch vessel i'm using in the lab i have observed some...
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Last replied to by Chewe
Thanks Todd. I have also observed that material gets stuck behind the baffles. Which makes me wonder if they're really that relevant if you can achieve a perfect solid suspension. The idea of using pu...
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Started by louwrens
Just need some confirmation on whether the correct and most accurate manner of testing recovery of material placed into a cil plant let’s say 30000tonnes of ore out of a plant with capacity of 150 000 tones of ore is indeed to do a bottle roll test...
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Last commented on by labadi
Hi John. May be my question is a litle bit out of the context of this discussion, but we are facing a dilema, regarding P80 x recovery: there is an information that some tests showed a CIL recovery de...
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Started by Tsaone
Is it possible to recover a flocculant in a slurry after water separation?
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thank you guys. but since you guys says flocculants breaks and lose structure, what about polyampholytes? because many of the have have self healing feature and high tensile strength. Or the forces w...
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Started by mohammed_tawfik
Any one know where to get double beam AAS suitable for mining preferred new Hope to get help soon
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Started by McDeejs
May you list mining equipment that have low reliability and requires standby equipment on a plant setup  
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Last replied to by Abduzhabor
Additional reserve hydrocyclone in the cluster, and if there is filtering - a reserve filter.
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Started by Donard ZM
Hi, I fail to know exactly amount of sodium cyanide needed to leach the gold ore with a certain amount let's say 5 ppm,please help me a nice calculation relates the amount of gold in ore, capacity of leaching tanks. Thanks.
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I will tend to disagree with the suggestion above. The reality is you cannot use Stoichiometric calculation to complex ore in real leaching plant. If you had some experience in that field you will not...
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Started by Marshal Meru
Hi, I am looking for a centrifuge to dewater the -C5 fraction from a cyclosizer.  Do you know of where I could get one? Do you have an alternative to?
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Last replied to by mellers
Hi Marshal, it is worth you sending the required dewatering duty to me, we make both solid bowl and decanting centrifuges. regards mike
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Started by mohammed_tawfik
hi  we are  starting new gold mine in Egypt  on small scale , using vat leaching   we don't have atomic adsorption device to calculate the gold concentration in ppm  my question is about manual methods of determination of gold concentration ...
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Last commented on by mohammed_tawfik
and what about carbon assaying for gold
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Started by Katya
Has anyone been involved in tin-copper tailings benefication? The main challenge is to beneficate tin. Most of it (approximately 60%) are distributed in grain size -40+10 microns We carried out several laboratory testing on gravity concentration an...
Last replied to by Treve Mildren
The MGS is certainly the best option for fine tin and will work a treat in the size range you are suggesting.
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Started by KNP
Can anyone who have come across with the assaying method of gold ores using titration method assist me with some methods on how it is done. currently we are doing wet assay DIBK method and we want to try some other assay methods
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Last replied to by Todd H
There are a few titration methods but most people don't use them - AAS is very cheap and accurate and is the preferred choice for wet chemistry.  ICP has also been utilized.  Here are a couple of li...
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Started by m_aazami
during the laboratory test for gold (specially for refractory gold ore), one of the test is GRADING ANALYSIS. 1- as in the refractory gold ore, the size of the gold grain is normally less than 10 t0 15 micron, what is the advantage of GRADING ANALYS...
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Last replied to by Todd H
The grading analysis indicates in what size fraction the gold is concentrated.  This is helpful to aid in understanding the best method to treat the ore - gravity, fine grinding, refractory pretreatm...

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