Mining has advanced primarily through the use of two strategies pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy Both have been used successfully to extract valuable metals from ore deposits These strategies without a doubt harm the environment Furthermore due to decades of excessive mining there has been a global decline in high grade ores This has resulted in a
The enormous demand for and consumption of nickel in industrial applications has induced the depletion of high grade nickel sulfide ore which has inevitably led to the utilization of the substantial deposits of depreciated low grade nickel copper sulfide ore In this work the mineral phase transformation and sulfation kinetics of nickel copper iron and
The nickel industry faces today many challenges because nickel is a critical metal used for low carbon technologies and for the production of super alloys Li ion and Ni MH batteries for electric
Prediction of metallurgical responses during the flotation process is extremely vital to increase the process efficiency using a proper modeling approach In this study two new variants of the recurrent neural network RNN method were used to predict the copper ore flotation indices grade and recovery within different operating conditions
This paper investigated the effect of mineral surface oxidation on the floatability of Kevitsa low grade Ni Cu ore Physicochemical measurements ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid EDTA extraction and oxygen uptake experiments were carried out with slurry and recycled process water samples obtained from the Kevitsa Cu Ni sequential concentrator plant The pH
Neale J S Robertson H Muller and M Gericke 2009 Integrated piloting of a thermophilic bioleaching process for the treatment of a low grade nickel copper sulphide concentrate G and S Thomas 2005 Development and implementation of a new flowsheet for the flotation of a low grade nickel ore International Journal of
Nickel Cobalt and Copper extraction from low grade nickel ore sample at 200 g/L acid 3 g/L ferric 40% solids and room temperature Glycine leaching GlyLeach In conventional processing iron is smeared across the process as the flotation cleaner process the smelter furnace and converter and first refining steps in a
Nickel laterite ore smelting slag is a byproduct of the ferronickel alloy production process Due to the low nickel content in the ore a substantial amount of slag is generated Nickel iron slag has become the fourth largest type of slag produced in smelting processes following iron slag steel slag and red mud Xi et al 2018
When this ore is treated by traditional pyrometallurgical smelting process that is the primary ore flotation → nickel concentrate high temperature smelting → low grade nickel matte converter smelting → high grade nickel matte grinding and flotation separation or sulfuric acid leaching or high pressure ammonia leaching process
Copper nickel sulfide ore beneficiation method is mainly flotation and magnetic separation and gravity separation are usually auxiliary beneficiation methods Collectors and foaming agents for the flotation of copper sulfide minerals are often used in the flotation of copper nickel sulfide 1 Direct or Partial Priority Flotation It is to select copper ore into a
However it is not successful to upgrade nickel grade for limonite and nontronite laterite ore while only 40% upgrade in nickel grade for saprolite laterite ore was obtained through flotation process Farrokhpay et al 2018 which might due to the complex chemical and mineral compositions of nickeliferous laterite ore and the way to improve
The grinding flotation electrorefining process has such disadvantages as metal dispersion complex process flow and low recovery rate This process has not been adopted in the newly emerging hydrometallurgical treatment facilities of high grade nickel matte since the 1970s but it still has industrial application in China Russia and Canada
A final graphite concentrate with % ash and % yield was obtained using the developed biocollector by flotation of low grade graphite ore with % ash content The degree of significance of input variables was determined using ANOVA Regression models for ash content % of final concentrate and its %recovery was obtained from BBD
Ultimately the obtained ferronickel alloy with a nickel content of % and an iron content of % was prepared successfully from the low grade nickel laterite ore containing a nickel content
This study was carried out to develop a flotation procedure for an oxide copper ore from a Region in Central Africa for producing an 18% copper concentrate for downstream processing at maximum
Another study on cyanide leaching of PGM concentrate was conducted by Mwase et al using a low grade ore flotation concentrate The investigation involved initial bioleaching of the ore using the proprietary GEOCOAT process at 65 °C followed by leaching with M sodium cyanide solution at 23 °C atmospheric pressure and pH 10
Flotation practice differs by geographical location Bulk sulfide flotation is generally carried out on Western Australian nickel ores which tend to be low in copper and contain substantial
Carbothermic reduction roasting of a low grade Ni lateritic was investigated under the modified Caron process Roasting parameters of reductant coal additive Na 2 SO 4 temperature and time were varied to optimize an efficient reduction of laterite to metallic nickel and degree of phase transformation characterized using XRD revealed a positive
The demand for nickel has been steadily increasing in the 21st century primarily driven by the rising demand for electric vehicle batteries Nickel in laterite is associated within silicate in saprolite ore and hydroxide/oxide in limonite ore Recently the sulfation roasting leaching process has been developed to address the challenges of
This technique has a high utilization rate of RE resources and has been applied to industrial scale production of ores from Bayan Obo Mountain Pass and Weishan Lake with the process flow charts in Fig 4 55 61 It is worth mentioning that the flotation feed of Mountain Pass and Weishan Lake is the raw ore while the flotation feed of Bayan
The purpose of this study therefore was to determine the effect of different frothers in the flotation of low grade nickel sulphide obtained in South Africa Sodium isobutyl Xanthate was used as
Teck has developed a novel hydrometallurgical process for treating low grade nickel concentrates and polymetallic concentrates with high magnesia content without the Smelting and refining of massive sulphides begins with the flotation of ore typically in the range of 2% nickel to an acceptable concentrate grade of 10 to 20% nickel
The flotation results indicate that the flotation process is selectively upgrading the nickel sulphides with the highest grade material achieved at the beginning of the test Zhu Pan J Zhang Zheng 2010 Study on selective reduction and magnetic separation of low grade nickel laterite ore to produce high nickel