The ore is a sulfide copper ore containing heads of approximately: copper 0.45, iron 3.5, molybdenum 0.006, and zinc 0.06 per ore sample. Prior flotation of this ore has employed, in the flotation cell, the addition of pine oil as required to optimize froth, ordinarily resulting in a total pine oil concentration of about 0.24 lb./ton.
Aug 28, 2020· In this research, flotation of copper, lead and zinc minerals from a copper oxide–sulfide ore was studied. The identification tests showed that the sample is a mixture of quartz, chalcopyrite, galena, cerussite, hemimorphite and iron oxide minerals with 5.04% CuO, 1.61% PbO, 2.07% ZnO and 56.40% SiO 2.The experimental design methodology (RSM) was conducted to investigate the effect of ...
The ore mined is from a primary copper sulphide deposit with separate additional deposits of copper oxides. In conjunction with Ausmelt Chemicals, Minto is currently investigating options to recover copper oxide and sulphide minerals using flotation by blending their primary sulphide ore with oxide ores.
Aug 28, 2021· Brochantite type copper oxide ore. Brochantite type copper oxide ore is dominated by copper alum minerals. It is a middle-difficult-to-beneficiate copper oxide ore. Flotation and chemical beneficiation can be used to recover copper. And the combined method shall be used if the gangue mineral is carbonate. Native copper oxide ore
Currently, the oxide gold ore is treated in a conventional CIL circuit by blending the low and high grade copper ores to minimize cyanide consumption and allow smooth operation. The sulfide ore is treated through a flotation circuit to produce pyrite and copper concentrates.
Flotation is the common copper processing technology, which can be used for sulfide ore and oxide ore. The copper flotation plant usually includes following steps: crushing and screening, stage grinding and flotation, thickening and dewatering, and copper concentrates recovery.
May 18, 2017· Sulfidation xanthate flotation is the most widely used method for dealing with copper oxide ore 9, 12, 13. Sodium sulfide can promote the flotability of oxide copper ore 14, resulting in the ...
The invention relates to the technical field of mineral separation, and particularly discloses a flotation method of copper oxide ore, which comprises the steps of mixing raw copper oxide ore with an inhibitor, grinding the mixture to obtain floatable ore pulp, adding an activating agent and a collecting agent into the floatable ore pulp, carrying out flotation, carrying out rough ...
changes some of the CuFeS 2 to copper oxide; removes some of the sulfur as sulfur dioxide; This is done by heating the concentrated ore from froth flotation. It is heated to between 500 °C and 700 °C in air. The product from the roaster is called calcine. It is a solid mixture of oxides, sulfides and sulfates. One reaction that takes place is:
The Kansanshi mixed copper sulfide-oxide ore contains significant proportions of fine material manifesting in a variety of processing challenges. This paper presents the work which was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of desliming in improving the flotation response of the ore. Two modes of desliming were investigated, namely; sieving and elutriation after which the deslimed material was ...
Jul 01, 2019· Assuming that oxides are only recovered during the oxide flotation stage, Cu-oxide minerals recovery can be estimated at around 52%. That constitutes an increase of more than 20% compared to the cumulative copper recovery of less than 30% obtained when using SIPX and sulphidisation to float copper oxide ore (Corin et al., 2017). The ...
Sep 29, 2021· Brochantite type copper oxide ore is dominated by copper alum minerals. It is a middle-difficult-to-beneficiate copper oxide ore. Flotation and chemical beneficiation can be used to recover copper. And the combined method shall be used if the gangue mineral is …
Jul 25, 2013· In this flotation tests and evaluation for the best collector for copper oxide "ore" 911Metallurgy continues with material that's 60% Oxide copper.. Sample C: 1.7% Copper about 60% Oxide Cu . Rougher Tests:. Both reagents appear to behave similarly as the "blue dots" are seemingly a continuation of the trend started by "red dots".
Copper oxide ore value chain OutotecExtract maximum value with minimum environmental impact when processing oxide copper ores. We understand the intricate challenges and …
Sep 08, 2021· Separation flotation method can also achieve good results for refractory oxidized copper ore. It is to crush the mineral to a certain particle size, mix 0.1% ~ 1.0% salt and 0.5% ~ 2.0% pulverized coal, and heat it to about 900 ℃ in oxygen isolation. The copper in the ore will precipitate on the carbon particle surface in metal state.
flotation of copper oxide or mixed ores is sulphidization, which was first developed with industrial success on Pb–Zn oxide ores in Review, evolution, and optimization of the treatment of Kansanshi mixed copper ore by C. Ngulube*, C. Chongo*, and F.X. Paquot* .2&,3, Over the last six years, the Kansanshi copper-gold mine has continued to
In the copper oxide flotation, direct flotation method usually can not achieve better results. Sulfuration flotation method is the main flotation method for treating copper oxide ore and mixed ore at home and abroad. For malachite, azurite, and red copper. Mine-based copper oxide ore can get better indicators. The method used to treat the mixed ore is … Vulcanization Flotation Of Copper ...
Copper oxide ores have occasionally been treated via froth flotation via sulfidation of the oxide minerals with certain chemicals which react with the oxide mineral particles to produce a thin rime of sulfide (usually chalcocite), which can then be activated by the froth flotation plant.
In a flotation separation process wherein oxide copper ores in subdivided form are concentrated by slurrying raw ores containing oxide copper ores in an aqueous solution of a flotation reagent followed by generating gas bubbles in the slurry to float the oxide copper ores and recovering the concentrated oxide copper ores from the surface of the slurry, the improvement therein which comprises ...
Copper sulphide ores Flotation collectors From previous flotation investigations of mixed copper oxide and sulphide minerals using xanthate and Mineral processing hydroxamate collectors it was hard to distinguish the impact of the alkyl hydroxamate collector on sul- Alkyl hydroxamates phide recovery as the sulphide and oxide minerals occurred ...
Copper oxide ores are commonly difficult-to-float due to its molecular structure, and adding sodium sulfide as activator is necessary; however, its dosage to the flotation pulp must be strictly controlled, as it is also a powerful depressant for copper sulfide minerals, and will, if in excess, depress the activated copper oxide minerals.
Jul 25, 2013· In this flotation tests and evaluation for the best collector for copper oxide "ore" 911Metallurgy continues with material that's 60% Oxide copper.. Sample C: 1.7% Copper about 60% Oxide Cu . Rougher Tests:. Both reagents appear to behave …
improvement of sulphide-oxide copper ores processing through the use of mixed collector systems has surged. The flotation of a natural porphyry copper ore with bornite and malachite was investigated via fundamental work with pure minerals and a bench-scale testing regime. The
The aim of this study was the recovery of copper from the oxide copper ore by froth flotation and agitating sulphuric acid (H2SO4) leaching. The ore with 4.21% copper grade used in this study was ...
Jul 25, 2013· Continuing with the evaluation of copper oxide flotation using hydroxamate we now evaluate a rock that's 41% copper oxide with some lead oxide …
Republic of Congo (DRC) from ores containing copper-cobalt oxides or copper-cobalt sulphides. Where oxide and sulphide cobalt-bearing copper minerals occur together, efficient recovery of copper and cobalt is known to be extremely difficult. This study investigates the flotation behaviour of a mixed oxide-sulphide ore where copper is
Copper oxide ores Copper sulphide ores Flotation collectors Mineral processing Alkyl hydroxamates abstract Sherwood Copper's Minto Mine processes a high grade copper–gold deposit in Yukon, Canada.
Copper ores 0.2-6.0 Copper ore, other minerals, waste rock0.2-6.0 (gangue) Copper minerals,b iron and other metallic0.5-6.0 pyrites, byproducts, andgangue Solution of copper and leaching agent20-50 (water orHAO.) Copper, iron (0.2-2.00/0), trace amounts of85-90 silica and aluminum oxides, and oxygen Organic solvent and pregnantIeachate; 25-35
For example, when copper is in the form of carbonate (malachite, blue copper ore), the flotability is relatively good, while the flotability of silicate (silica malachite) is poor, free copper oxide is easy to float, and copper oxide can not be recovered by a single flotation method. Copper oxide minerals in a separate state are called free ...
Therefore, lean ore and a large number of difficult-to-select copper oxide deposits are in urgent need of development and utilization.The direct flotation method is the first method to use flocculant instead of sodium sulfide activation, including fatty acid flotation, amine flotation, neutral oil emulsion flotation and chelation collector.
May 25, 2017· A combined process of flotation and high-gradient magnetic separation was proposed to utilize Yulong complex copper oxide ore. The effects of particle size, activators, Na 2 S dosage, LA (a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ethylenediamine) dosage, activating time, collectors, COC (a combination collector of modified hydroxyl oxime acid and xanthate) dosage, and magnetic intensity …
The fitting of flotation date to a flotation kinetic equation shows that the copper oxide ore, cuprite, malachite and chrysocolla in this ore are consistent with a first order kinetic equation. The rate constants for copper oxide, cuprite, malachite and chrysocolla are 0.152, 0.104, 0.248 and 0.210 respectively.
Apr 23, 2011 there are two main copper ore types of interest, copper oxide ores and copper sulfide ores. both ore types can be economically mined, however, the most common source of copper ore flotation.Abstract: the ore is the oxide ore of copper lead and zinc, the ore has high oxidation rate of pb,nearly 50. which contains 3.56 of pb,3.86 of ...
The traditional method applied for the flotation of copper oxide or mixed ores is sulphidisation, which was first developed with industrial success on Pb–Zn oxide ores in Australia (Crozier, 1991). The method involves multistage addition of sodium sulphide (Na 2 S), sodium hydrogen sulphide (NaHS), or ammonium sulphide (NH 4) 2
Since June 2009, these mixed ores have been treated by flotation using controlled potential sulphidization. This paper describes the development of the process and its optimization. The effect of the complex mineralogy on the flotation performance is also depicted. copper flotation, mixed sulphide/oxide ore, controlled potential sulphidazition.
A novel flotation promoter used in the concentration of copper bearing ores for the efficient selective flotation of copper values, including chalcopyrite, with suppression of iron pyrites; the promoter comprising a sodium sulfate of an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a carbon chain in excess of 12 carbons and chemically combined with at least one mole of the C2-C3 alkylene oxides.