Mineral processing, art of treating crude ores and mineral products in order to separate the valuable minerals from the waste rock, or gangue It is the first process that most ores undergo after mining in order to provide a more concentrated material for the procedures of extractive metallurgy...
At mineral processing plants the accuracy and precision characteristics of assays in mill feed, tailings and concentrate largely determine the reliability of the metallurgical balance...
These separators are commonly used for separating mineral sands, an example of one of these mineral processing plants is the CRL processing plant at Pinkenba in Brisbane Queensland In this plant, zircon, rutile and ilmenite are separated from the silica gangue In this plant, the separation is performed in a number of stages with roughers ....