How to Recycle Magnesite Chrome in Copper Smelting Furnaces
In accordance with its objective to maximize minerals recovery from secondary domestic resources, Bureau of Mines conducted research on recycling chrome refractory wastes. Since 20 pct of the U.S. demand for imported chromite is used in the production of refractories, primarily for the steel, copper, and glass industries, samples of used chrome-containing refractories from copper […]
Process for Recovering Chromium Scrap
Described here is a process for recovering chromium and other metals from superalloy scrap. Laboratory-scale experiments were conducted to test a complex flowsheet utilizing a wide range of extractive metallurgical operations. The novel basis for the process is the formation of a sulfide matte in which chromium is concentrated in a discrete chromium sulfide phase. […]
Molybdenite Flotation
Factors Directly Affecting Molybdenite Flotation: The average molybdenite recovery in the copper concentrator for the first nine months of 1980 was 67.13%. In recent months, there has been approximately an 80% recovery of the molybdenite in the sand and slime rougher floats. The losses in the sand float are due mainly to fine molybdenite particles locked […]
Carnallite & Sylvinite Ore – Potash Flotation
The mission of the Bureau of Mines minerals research program is to help improve minerals processing technology so that the Nation’s mineral needs can be fulfilled in a manner that reduces waste and ensures that minerals and metals are processed, used, and recycled at acceptable economic, social, and environmental costs. In accordance with this mission, […]
Flotaire Flotation Cell
The Flotaire Cell can be constructed in many configurations, but presently, we prefer a round tank that is 2 to 4 m in diameter with an overall depth of about 5 m. Simplicity of design, and operation, is a principle attraction of the Cell and can be best understood by reference to Figures 1A and […]
Gangue Depressant in Molybdenum Flotation
Sodium cyanide and Nokes reagent are commonly used depressants to reject iron, copper, and lead sulfide minerals for the flotation recovery and upgrading of molybdenite concentrate. With the ever increasing cost of reagents and more stringent regulations, it is necessary that these depressants are used as efficiently and effectively as possible. Therefore, a study was […]
Microbubble Flotation Column
The Microcel™ sparger consists of in-line static mixers and a centrifugal pump. Tailings slurry is pumped from the base of the column through the static mixers, where air and slurry are mixed under high-shear conditions to create the bubble dispersion. As the air-slurry mixture passes through the stationary blades located inside the mixer, the air is sheared into very small bubbles by the […]
Chromite Flotation
Careful studies of the fundamentals of chromite flotation have been made recently in the United States and in Poland. Palmer (1972), Palmer, Fuerstenau and Aplan (1975) and Fuerstenau and Palmer (1976) have demonstrated the importance of the presence or absence of charged metal hydroxy species in such flotation. These species appear particularly to influence anionic […]
Zinc Regrind
The flotation section starts with a bulk concentrate float for lead and copper using four rows of eleven cells each as roughers and scavengers. The froth taken off the roughers is then pumped to a two stage cleaner circuit. Scavenger froth and cleaner tails are returned back to the head of the rougher circuit. Froth […]
Anemometer to Measure Flotation Cell Air Flow – Self Aspirating
I once used an Anemometer to Measure Flotation Cell Air Flow on Self Aspirating WEMCO machines. Overtime, operations & maintenance got lazy and never took care of cleaning the airflow supply pipe into the cell. It was clear flows were partially to completely blocked. I improvised the method and now found one the US Bureau […]