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Fluxing And Smelting Silver Ore
Equipment Used For Firing/Smelting Ore Furnace Or Oven For Firing/Smelting: It must heat to 1950 degrees F for gold and 2100 degrees F for silver. A muffle furnace is best. It fires to about 2300 degrees F and the ingredients can be easily added to the ore while firing. Crucible: Clay or graphite crucible to use in a muffle furnace. Other types
Nitric Acid To Purify and Separate Silver/Gold
THE DANGERS OF NITRIC ACID Nitric acid can be absorbed through the skin, causing nitric acid poisoning. WEAR RUBBER GLOVES! Nitric acid cannot be boiled or simmered in the house or where it is not well ventilated. It causes nitric poisoning. You will hurt in every joint of your body and it can kill you. Nitric acid can kill if
How To Clean Gold with Nitric Acid
Gold acts like a sponge and absorbs nitric acid. This enables the nitric acid to clean the gold, such as gold nuggets or free gold taken from black sands. Most gold found in nature contains other metals, but some of these cannot be taken down in nitric acid (such as the platinum family). First; The Dangers of Nitric Acid Place
How To Use Nitric Acid To Purify Silver
Here is the recipe/method if you want to use Nitric Acid To Purify Silver: First; The Dangers of Nitric Acid Place the silver in a beaker or Pyrex container. Add 3 parts distilled water to 1 part nitric acid. Place on stove or hot plate and simmer until all of the metals are gone. Take un-iodized table salt and drop into
Recover Gold/Silver in Jewelry/Electronics eScrap by Aqua Regia
The Dangers Of Aqua Regia: Aqua regia cannot be boiled or simmered in the house or where it is not well ventilated. This can cause serious illness or KILL YOU! Use a vent hood with an exhaust fan or simmer in the open. Hydrochloric acid is very dangerous. It CAN BURN TO THE BONE and is extremely painful. In most cases,
Methods to Estimate AG/SAG Mill Power Requirements
A linkedin.com group was recently discussing this by asking: I’ve tried to estimate AG/SAG Mill power requirements using several different methods: (1) Using the results of SMC data (2) Using SAG Power Index (SPI) data (3) Using the 1989 Barratt method updated on Alex Doll’s Web site (February 16, 2015) (3) Using Don Burgess’ method (11th Mill Operators Conference 2012) They
Online Geology Course
Here is a “how” series on ore mineral deposit formation acting as a FREE Online Exploration Geology Courses to help non-technical people understand ore deposits, how they form, how they are explode for, how they are evaluated and mined and how the metals and minerals are extracted from the ore. The talks highlights some of the features of the main ore deposit types
Understand Fluorine in Copper Concentrate (F in Cu Conc)
A copper flotation concentrate is over limit on Fluorine (F) content and Contamination. When assaying and plotting Copper (Cu) from times concentrates and the related fluorine and Magnesium Oxide (MgO) assays in various ways as shown below; one can see the obvious relationships. In the case, reducing Fluorine content and contamination of the copper conc with likely by using regrinds
Ball Mill Motor Power Draw Sizing and Design Formula
The following equation is used to determine the power that wet grinding overflow ball mills should draw. For mills larger than 3.3 meters (10 feet) diameter inside liners, the top size of the balls used affects the power drawn by the mill. This is called the ball size factor S. Rod and Ball Mills by C.A. Rowland and D.M.
Rod Mill Design & Power Draw
Table of ContentsUsing the Bond Operating Work Index for Circuit Performance AssessmentBasics of Rod Mill Power Draw The following equation is used to determine the power that a rod mill should draw. The Bottom Table lists many of the common size rod mills giving speed, loading and power data. The rod mill motor power is in horsepower at the mill pinion-shaft. For
Gold Rocker Box
Table of ContentsGold CradleGold Rocker Box Design One of the first devices used after the gold pan was the gold rocker box. The rocker allowed small operators to increase the amount of gravel handled in a shift, with a minimum investment in equipment. Rockers vary in size, shape, and general construction, depending upon available construction materials, size of gold recovered,
Mafic Layered Intrusions -Chromite and Platinum PGE Deposits
Another major groups of deposits in the mafic layered complexes are platinum group elements and chrome deposits but unlike copper nickel massive sulfides they don’t form as puddles on the floor of the intrusions they form in discrete layers well up in the magma chamber. The PGE’s that’s platinum palladium, rhodium with less amounts of osmium, ruthenium and iridium are
Igneous Rocks Formations
Table of ContentsCharacteristics of Igneous RocksClasses of Igneous Rocks Igneous rocks; those that are formed from molten magma are broadly classified according to their chemical composition using silica, potassium, sodium, calcium, iron and magnesium as the key indicators. Magma is rich in silica, sodium and potassium generally form pale colored feldspar when they crystallize and are termed felsic. They are
Mafic Layered Intrusions -Copper/Nickel Massive Sulfide
Mafic Layered Intrusions and complexes including copper nickel massive sulfide, chrome and platinum group elements or PGE deposits. This course on massive sulphide deposits includes copper and nickel exploration methods, nickel sulphide inclusions exploring for copper and nickel sulphide minerals. In the introductory Exploration Geology Course I mentioned felsic, mafic and ultramafic rocks but before I launch into talking about
Rate of Gold Recovery by Size of Particle
Here is a review of various gold recovery machines/methods and the gold particle size they are best suited to recover. Compare Jig, shaker tables, dry washer, sluice box, spirals, bowl concentrators, falcon, Knelson and leaching. The size distribution of the raw material will also determine if classification of the ore is necessary for better recovery. The processing capacity of the
Kimberlite Deposits and Geology Formation of Diamonds
The geology of Diamonds consist of crystalline carbon although a significant proportion of diamonds are derived from placid deposits i.e. hosted in sediments, placid’s are secondary deposits and all diamonds were at one time or another hosted by kimberlite igneous rocks. The name Kimberlite comes from the town of Kimberley which grew up around the prolific diamond mines in northern
Mill Critical Speed Calculation
Table of ContentsEffect of Mill Speed on the Energy InputEffect of Liner Profile on the TrajectoryEffect of Friction of the Wall on the Charge Profile Effect of Mill Speed on the Energy Input In this experiment the overall motion of the assembly of 62 balls of two different sizes was studied. The mill was rotated at 50, 62, 75 and
Estimate Mill Steel OR Rock Charge Volume
This is a 2nd Method for estimation or measuring the steel charge volume inside a mill. If dealing with a full SAG/AG mill, this will give you the rock load%. If you can count liners, you’ll have your answer. The 1st method uses similar parameters. Find more at https://sagmilling.com/tools_millfilling Effect of Mill Filling on the Energy Input The effect of mill filling on
Estimate Charge Volume of a Grinding Mill (Method 1)
The load estimation method has you physically measure distances in the mill. Follow the charts below and pull them into this calculator. If you can clearly see inside the mill, use the liner method.
Calculate Ball Mill Grinding Capacity
The sizing of ball mills and ball milling circuits from laboratory grinding tests is largely a question of applying empirical equations or factors based on accumulated experience. Different manufacturers use different methods, and it is difficult to check the validity of the sizing estimates when estimates from different sources are widely divergent. It is especially difficult to teach mill sizing
Cyanide Leaching and Decomposition of Pyrrhotite
Research on cyanidation methods brought considerable discussion on the reactions involved in the leaching and decomposition of pyrrhotite in cyanide solutions. Pyrrhotite has one loosely held sulphur atom which readily reacts with cyanide to form thiocyanate: Fe5S6 + NaCN = NaCNS + 5 FeS The ferrous sulphide oxidizes rapidly to the sulphate which reacts with cyanide to form ferrocyanide: FeS + 2
Calculate a Classifier and Screen’s Efficiency
Classifier and screen performance formula: Classification efficiency is generally defined as the weight ratio of classified material in the sized overflow product to the total amount of classifiable material in the classifier feed, expressed as a percentage. For two-product separations, the general form used is: Cytec [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
Calculation of Top Grinding Media Size -Ball Sizing
The majority of grinding balls are forged carbon or alloy steels. Generally, they are spherical, but other shapes have been used. The choice of the top (or recharge) ball size can be made using empirical equations developed by Bond (1958) or Azzaroni (1984) or by using special batch-grinding tests interpreted in the content of population balance models (Lo and Herbst