1. Efficiently Utilizing a Low Grade and Complex Copper Ore by Flotation
- Author
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Xu Shen, Fen Lan Peng, Qi Nie, Zhi Zhang Li, and Xiao Si Zhou
- Subjects
Materials science ,Copper extraction techniques ,chemistry ,Fineness ,Metallurgy ,General Engineering ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Copper ore ,Copper ,Grinding - Abstract
Based on the analysis of the properties of the copper ore from Jinggu area in Yunnan province, a suitable technical route was presented for processing of eligible copper concentrate and the main factors i.e. grinding fineness, Na2S dosage and collector dosage, affecting the quality of roughing concentration was investigated. On this basis, a close-circuit flotation test scheme was preceded, which obtained a high quality copper concentrate with Cu grade of 16.08%, copper recovery of 58.52%. The recovery of copper concentrate is much lower than the Cu recovery of roughing concentrate from the condition experiments. This may be contributed to the fact that fine slime carried by middling worsens the separation of copper minerals and gangues. The Mo was enriched in concentrate, which is significantly considered to recovery in further work.
- Published
- 2013