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Enrichment of Ores by Anwesha

This document discusses methods for enriching ores by removing impurities or gangue. It describes several common enrichment methods: 1) Hand picking involves manually separating gangue from ore using hammers and identifying differences in color and shape. 2) Washing uses an upward water stream to separate lighter gangue from heavier metal ores like lead, tin, and iron based on gravity. 3) Froth flotation adds collectors and stabilizers to powdered sulphide ore suspensions, causing the metal to form a froth that can be skimmed off, separating it from gangue. 4) Electromagnetic separation grinds ore to powder then passes it over a magnetic roller, retaining magnetic

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Enrichment of Ores by Anwesha

This document discusses methods for enriching ores by removing impurities or gangue. It describes several common enrichment methods: 1) Hand picking involves manually separating gangue from ore using hammers and identifying differences in color and shape. 2) Washing uses an upward water stream to separate lighter gangue from heavier metal ores like lead, tin, and iron based on gravity. 3) Froth flotation adds collectors and stabilizers to powdered sulphide ore suspensions, causing the metal to form a froth that can be skimmed off, separating it from gangue. 4) Electromagnetic separation grinds ore to powder then passes it over a magnetic roller, retaining magnetic

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EXTRACTION

OF METAL
ENRICHMENT OF ORES
What is Enrichment of ores ?

Ores mined from earth are usually content with large amount of
impurities suchas soil,
sand, etc, called gangue. The impurities must be
removed from ore real to the extraction of the metal. The process used
for removing the gang from the aur are based on differences between
physical or chemical property of gang and the earth's different separation
technique are accordingly employed.
Concentration or dressing of the ore
Enrichment of (ores
Contain
impurities
(Gangue)

Sand Soil

Emor1se
SOME COMMON METHODS OF ORE DRESSING
Hand picking method Of enrichment of ores

It was the traditional method of concentrating ore directly with hands. In


this method, the gangue or adhering solid matrix is separated from the
orewith a hammer's help. The separation and identification of gangue are

made based on the differences in colour or lump shape.


ERUDEX
www.erudex.com

Hand picking
method

Ore
Removed Small
Sand
stones
Hand picking
method

Lumps of the ore are broken into small pieces.


Hand picking
method

Example
Haematite
Washing method of enrichment of ores

This method concentrates the ore by passing it through an upward stream


of water whereby all the lighter particles of gangue are separated from
the heavier metal ore. This is a type of gravity separation.
Washing

This method is used for the concentration of oxide ores of


heavy metals such as those of Lead, Tin, Iron etc.,

Lead Tin

Iron
Washin9
Grooves

Powdered ore
Impurities
(Gangue)
Heavy ore
particles
Forth flotation method of enrichment of ores

This method is mainly used to remove gangue from sulphide ores. The
ore is powdered and a suspension is created in water. To this are added,
Collectors and Froth Stabilizers. Collectors (pine oils, fatty acidds etc)
increase the non-wettability of the metal part of the ore and allows it to
form a froth. Froth Stabilizers (cresols, aniline etc) sustain the froth. The
oil wets the metal and the water wets the gangue. Paddles and air
constantly stir up the suspension to create the froth. This frothy metal is
skimmed off the top and dried, to recover the metal.
Froth floatation
process

Powdered ore
Froth floatation
process
pine

oil
Froth floatation
process

Air
Froth Tioatation

process

Air

Froth s

Gangue particles
Electromagnetic separation for enrichment of ores

This involves the use of magnetic properties of either the ore or the
gangue to separate them. The ore is first ground to fine pieces and then
passed on a conveyor belt passing over a magnetic roller. The magnetic
ore remains on the belt and the gangue falls off the belt.
Electromagnetic separation
Ore with magnetic nature
Impurities with non magnetic nature
-

Finely powdered ore


magnetic roller

Belt

Non-magnetic
roller

Magnetic particles
Electromagneticseparation

Chromite : Fe(CrO22 Ore of Chromite

Wolframite : (Fe,Mn)WO4- An ore of Tungsten

Magnetite: Fe:04 An ore of Iron


Liquation method of enrichment of ores

Liquation, technique for separating constituents of an ore, a metal, or an

alloy by partial melting. When the material is heated to a temperature


where one of the constituents melts and the other remains solid, the
liquid constituent can be drained off.
ERL
Liguation process
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Mineral Outlet

Hearth

Stibnite

Tinstone(SnO)
Mineral Outlet

Hearth_

Temperature =500°C to 600C


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