PIONEERING COARSE PARTICLE FLOTATION – TRANSFORMATIVE INSIGHTS FROM FIVE YEARS OF OPERATION
C. Haines1*, L. Vollert2, W. Downie3, I. Heath4, R Ghattas 5
1Superintendent – Metallurgy, Newmont Cadia Operation, New South Wales, Australia (*Presenting author: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)2Principal Met...
28-Nov-2024
Improved classification with the Cavex® DE hydrocyclone for mill circuit, coarse particle flotation, and tailings applications
J J Hanhiniemi1,2, J Heo3, N Weerasekara4, E Wang5, H Thanasekaran6 and A Kilcullen7
MAusIMM(CP), Director of Engineering, Weir Minerals, Brisbane Qld 4000. Email: jeremy....
20-Nov-2024
Mine to Flotation Process Optimization at Chinalco Toromocho OperationDai Fangrong1, Dong Yang1, Alfonso Muñoz1, Walter Valery2, Roberto Valle3, Erico Tabosa2, Joyce Siong2 and Claudia Plasencia3
Minera Chinalco, Peru
Hatch, Australia
Hatch, Peru
*This paper was presented at Procemin-Geomet...
09-Jul-2024
Future (and Present) Trends in Flotation Circuit Design
L Pyle1, E Tabosa 2, S Vianna3, S Sinclair4, W Valery5
Minerals Processing Engineer, Hatch, Brisbane, Qld, 4000. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Senior Process Engineer, Hatch, Brisbane, Qld, 4000. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Senior Proces...
09-Jul-2024
Pinto Valley Mine, Copper Recovery Study with the Novacell™
S Morgan1, P Amelunxen2, B Akerstrom3 and L Cooper41. Technology Manager - NovaCell, Jord International Pty Limited, 40 Oxley Street, St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Senior Vice President – Technical Service...
09-Jul-2024
Commissioning a HydroFloat® in a Copper Concentrator Application
Arburo, Karina - Principal Process Development, Anglo AmericanZuniga, Jaime - Especialista Metalurgia, Anglo AmericanMcDonald, Adrian - Lead Processing Development, Anglo AmericanValdes, Felipe - Engineering Manager, Eriez Chile, Erie...
12-Jul-2023
Article by Eriez plublished in the Global Mining Review (March 2023) on water conservation and the role of coarse particle floation.
The full March edition of the Global Mining Review can be found here.
27-Mar-2023
D R Seaman, Li, Lamson, B A Seaman and Adams
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference Brisbane, Australia 23 - 25 June 2021
ABSTRACT
Red Chis Mine, operated by Newcrest Mining Ltd, is a copper-gold mine located in Northern British Columbia, Canada. The process plant produces an auriferou...
09-May-2022
Reposted with permission from this original source - International Mining Magazine
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/international-mining_im-october-2021-flotation-ugcPost-6851501159165779969-8wuy/
Our annual article covers everything from new cell designs & innovations for coarse & fines flo...
02-Nov-2021
Regino, Wong, Lopez, Adams, Hobert, Wasmund
ABSTRACT
The use of fluidized beds to enhance the flotation efficiency of coarse particles has been practised industrially using Eriez’ HydroFloat® separator in phosphate and potash for many years and has recently been successfully extended to sulfide m...
12-Oct-2021
Jaques, Vollert, Akerstrom, Seaman
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
In August 2018 the first full-scale pneumatically assisted fluidised bed flotation cells for the recovery of coarse composited gold and copper were commissioned at Newcrest’s Cadia Valley opera...
27-Jul-2021
Edmunds, Wilkens, Akerstrom, Haines
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
The Ridgeway Concentrator at Newcrest Cadia was commissioned in 2002 as an ABC circuit to treat the ore from the Ridgeway sublevel cave (SLC) at around 5MTPA. Consisting of a single pinion 32’...
20-Jul-2021
Llamas, Korolev, Altinkay, Nikolopoulos, Haapalainen, Kolehmainen, Lundström, Geitenbeek, Weckhuysen, Stelter, Reuter
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Having a circular society where the residue generation is minimised is one of the challenges of our society. The...
19-Jul-2021
Di Feoa, Volcheka, Morina, Demersa, Mortazavia
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper was to investigate the possibility of reducing process (fresh) water and increasing recycled water (thickener tank overflow water). As part of the investiga...
19-Jul-2021
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Flotation concentrate originating from the Asarel-Medet porphyry copper mining and processing complex in Bulgaria has been subjected to regrinding using a Ro-Star mill; the effects of which on the downstream metallurgical behaviour...
12-Jul-2021
Mousavia, Parsapourb, Tafvizia, Mahmoudic, Banisid
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Generally, regrind circuits are used to increase the degree of liberation of value minerals which are fed to flotation circuits. At the regrind circuit of the Sarcheshmeh copper co...
18-May-2021
L. Vollert, B. Akerstrom, B. Seaman, J. Kohmuench
COM Copper 2019 Conference 18 - 21 August Vancouver
ABSTRACT
In August 2018, the first full-scale HydroFloatTM cells for the recovery of coarse composited copper and gold were commissioned at Newcrest’s Cadia Valley operation in New South Wa...
04-Mar-2020
R Diaz-Colunga, S Gomez-Hernandez and R Espinosa-Gomez
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
ABSTRACT
Fresnillo Plc (Fresnillo) is a Mexican Company owned by the “BAL Group”, focused on the production of gold and silver. It was established in 2008, initially consisting of three com...
24-Sep-2019
C J Greet, D Morgan, J Davis, G Small and X du Toit
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
ABSTRACT
Laboratory test work completed on samples of Northparkes ore indicated that shifting from forged steel to more electrochemically inert high chrome grinding media produced a more oxidi...
24-Sep-2019
Graeme J. Jameson, Cagri Emer
ABSTRACT
A new froth flotation machine has been developed, known as the NovaCell, which can recover mineral particles over a wide particle size range, from the lower limit of flotation, to an upper limit which depends on the liberation characteristics of the ore. In a...
09-Jul-2019
Y. Dumais, R. Lemire, T. Banerjee and H. Weitz
Canadian Mineral Processors Conference, 23-25 January 2018, Ottawa, Canada
ABSTRACT
Agnico Eagle LaRonde produces over 300,000 ounces of gold annually, along with silver, zinc and copper by-products. The LaRonde plant consists of a conventional SAG a...
28-Jun-2019
F.C.F. Batista, R. deS. Almeida, L. deA. Silva, T. Banerjee, D. Gudgeon
CMP 2018, 23-25 January 2018, Ottawa, Canada
ABSTRACT
Yamana Chapada’s mine is one of the larger copper-gold mines in Brazil. The mine is located in Goias state, in the central part of Brazil. The mine has estimated Mineral R...
24-Apr-2019
ABSTRACT
Comminution is usually the heaviest energy-consuming process in the mine site. These days when efficiency concerns are becoming more and more important, developing a reliable and highly efficient way to grind and crush ore is a new field being explored by main industrial players. This pa...
25-Nov-2015