Beneficiation of Magnetically Separated Iron-Containing Ore Waste
Chokin K. Yedilbayev A. Yugai V. Medvedev A.
November 2022MDPI
Processes
2022#10Issue 11
Rough processing of iron ore employs dry methods which means that equipment is tuned to process large particles, but fine magnetic material less than a few tenths of a millimeter in size is not separated as efficiently. The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that dry beneficiation waste contains recoverable iron-bearing magnetite of commercial value. Commercial justification of waste beneficiation is associated with mining and grinding costs that are already included in the prime cost of the commercial concentrate. The future of tailings retreatment prospects depends on technology and efficiency of the employed equipment, the development of which is the subject of this paper. At first stage, fine iron is recovered by air sizing, with pitched curtain air classifiers embedding simple design and high performance. Powder materials were magnetically separated by a manufactured drum-type separator in which, to increase the separation efficiency, the process was performed at increased drum rotation speeds using (Formula presented.) - (Formula presented.) -B magnets and a drum made of electrically non-conductive materials. The separator performance was determined for various rotation speeds of the drum. Research has proven that a multi-stage magnetic separation with a consequent increase in drum rpm is reasonable. A new cascade separator was manufactured and tested for this purpose. It is shown that iron-containing ore tailings beneficiation is optimal without any additional grinding.
air classification , beneficiation , beneficiation tailings , drum separator , fractional recovery , magnetic separation , magnetite
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Institute of Physics and Technology, Satbayev University, Almaty, 050032, Kazakhstan
Bapy Mining LLP, Dostyk Ave. 132, Almatyl, 050000, Kazakhstan
Institute of Physics and Technology
Bapy Mining LLP
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