Abstract:
A method for treating process water of a flotation arrangement (1) is disclosed, the flotation arrangement comprising flotation arrangement (1) comprising a mineral flotation line (10) and a process water treatment arrangement (20) for treating underflow of the mineral flotation line. The method comprises the steps of a) dewatering underflow from the flotation in a gravitational solid-liquid separator (21); b) subjecting supernatant (221) from step a) to cleaning flotation for collecting at least fine particles and residual flotation chemicals, for separating at least fine particles and residual flotation chemicals from the supernatant into cleaning flotation overflow (232), and for forming purified process water (231) as cleaning flotation underflow; c) removing cleaning flotation overflow (232) as tailings, and d) recirculating purified process water (231) into the mineral flotation line (10).
Abstract:
A flotation cell (1) for treating particles suspended in slurry and for separating the slurry into an underflow (400) and an overflow (500) is disclosed. The flotation cell comprises a flotation tank (10) with a centre (11), a perimeter (12), a bottom (13), and a side wall (14); and a launder (2) and a launder lip (21) surrounding the perimeter (12) of the flotation tank. The flotation tank further comprises blast tubes (4) for introducing slurry infeed (100) into the tank, a blast tube comprising an inlet nozzle (41), an inlet (42) for pressurized gas, an elongated chamber (40) and an outlet nozzle (43). The outlet nozzle is positioned at a vertical distance (L5) from the launder lip, the distance (L5) being at least 1,5 m. In addition, a flotation line and use of the flotation line are disclosed.
Abstract:
Provided herein is a process for recovery of gold from gold-containing raw materials comprising refractory gold-containing minerals, in particular gold-containing refractory sulfidic minerals, comprising (a) obtaining gold-containing raw material comprising refractory gold-containing sulfidic minerals comprising first type of refractory sulfidic mineral having high gold content and second type of sulfidic mineral having low gold content; (b) forming a mineral pulp comprising first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high gold content and second type of sulfidic mineral particles having low gold content by suspending ground gold-containing material in water and optionally further milling the material; (c) conditioning the mineral pulp by addition of a surface modifying chemical for modifying the surface of the first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high content thus making the said particles non-floatable to obtain a conditioned pulp; (d) subjecting the conditioned pulp to a froth flotation process to separate first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high gold content from the second type of sulfidic mineral particles having low gold content; (e) recovering the non-floatable first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high cold content as flotation tailings; (f) pressure oxidizing (POX) the flotation tailings recovered in step (e) to obtain a discharge slurry comprising liberated gold; and (g) recovering gold from the discharge slurry obtained in step (f).
Abstract:
Formulations for value mineral collector compositions composed of at least one first collector selected from an organic ammonium salt of an organic sulfur-containing acid; and at least one second collector selected from neutral collectors and/or organic ammonium salts of an organic sulfur-containing acids, such that the second collector is different from said first collector, are provided herein, along with methods for making and using same.
Abstract:
A flotation cell for treating particles suspended in slurry is disclosed. The flotation cell comprises a fluidized bed (10), a recovery zone(20) at the upper part (13) of the flotation cell, a launder lip (26) and a recovery launder (24), and a tailings outlet (12). A primary slurry feed (100) comprising fresh slurry is arranged to be fed into the flotation cell by a first feed inlet (14) at a first position (P); and a secondary slurry feed (200) comprising at least slurry recirculated from a flotation cell is arranged to be fed into the fluidized bed by a second feed inlet (15) at a second position (S), below the first position. The slurry recirculated from the flotation cell is obtained at a third position (R) between the recovery launder and the tailings outlet. A use of the flotation cell as well as a method for treating particles suspended in slurry are also disclosed.