Special Topics (Principles of Mineral Processing)
- Familiarity with sampling: purpose, the definition of a representative sample, types of errors in sampling, precision, and accuracy of sampling, methods of taking samples from mines, exploration sampling
- Basic familiarity with the classification of minerals and their role in the production of various products
- Getting to know the identification and characterization of minerals and its role in ore dressing and metallurgy
- The role of process mineralogy in ore dressing and metal production
- Familiarity with ore processing, concepts and definitions, mineral separation, and mineral processing stages
- Familiarity with the place of ore dressing and its relationship with pyro and hydrometallurgy processes
- Metallurgical evaluation: general methods of sampling, process recovery, mass balance, calculation of ore processing profit, NSR
- the principles and operations of crushing: mechanism, theories, methods of measuring the crushing ability of materials, operations of various types of crushers, selection of crushers
- The principles and operation of grinding: types of grinding, effect of the type of grinding on the leaching process
- ? direct classification; Principles, types of sieves, selection of dimensions, and efficiency of vibrating sieves
? Indirect classification of materials: principles of movement of materials in fluid, hydro cyclones, classifier
- ? Gravity separation: principles and theories of gravity separation, types, and machines of gravity separation (heavy media, jigs, tables, spirals), the relationship of product characteristics from gravity separation with subsequent metallurgical processes, the role of gravity separators in the production of heavy metals
? Magnetic and electrical separation: magnetic separators (principles and mechanism, types and applications), the role of magnetic separation circuits in iron production
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- Familiarity with flotation, principles, types of flotation, familiarity with the surface properties of minerals, and the relationship between the characteristics of the concentrate resulting from flotation and metallurgical production processes
- ? Case study of ore processing circuits as an intermediate chain of metal production
? Comparison of different ore processing methods and general principles of method selection based on metallurgical processes