What is mineral processing?
Mineral processing is the process of separating valuable minerals from ore. Imagine you have a chocolate-chip cookie, that is your ore, and the chocolate chips represent your valuable minerals, and the cookie dough is the waste rock. Your job as a mineral processor is to figure out how to extract the chocolate chips in the most efficient manner. But it is not as simple as that. Mineral processors need to have a strong understanding of physics, mineralogy, and chemistry to find the optimal method to process the ore. When you first receive the ore from the haul trucks, you will need to reduce the size of the ore through a series of crushing and grinding stages. This is where physics and mineralogy come in. Afterward, the size-reduced ore will proceed to the recovery stage, where the valuable minerals will be separated from the ore, and usually, it is done based on their surface chemical properties.
As you gain more experience, you can even venture into different specialties such as process automation, developing nano drying technologies, or dive into electronics recycling. If you have a passion for physics and chemistry, and you like to design, analyze, and optimize processes, then you should consider a career in mineral processing!
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11 Comments
Hello I share your video on face book for our group: Mining engineering / Génie minier , Good continuation. (Every one read this comment can join us for free)
it's basically crush-grind-carbon in leaching method, quite poluar in Africa and South America. For mineral processing, there are still gravity separation and flotation system. Kwan, still 2 videos for you to go!!! GO GO GO.
What is the application of mineral processing in mining engineering
I'm here because of the link given on my module
Can you describe the process of flotation from the given diagram in your video?
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This video helps a lot tho! thanks
In screening process, how does the cut size value tells about the efficiency of screen. Like for two different aperture sizes, there'll be two different cut sizes, now my confusion is which screen is more efficient based on cut size? Hoping to hear from you soon.
I'm here for Earth Science module senior high 👄
Froth flotation, even mag separation especially if your products aren't captured in the first 3 cleaning circuits (lithium mainly) so will have to process the tailings
. Also if people don't understand, large particles will cause a nugget effect to which target minerals are locked away, hence fine grinding to liberate said mineral during flotation
and reagents used to suppress gank etc