scholarly journals Developing the technology of associated gold recovery when concentrating copper-pyrite ore

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Sergei I. Evdokimov ◽  
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Tatiana E. Gerasimenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Light Fraction ◽  
Gold Recovery ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Closed Circuit ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Cone Crusher ◽  
Copper Pyrite ◽  
Technical Measures ◽  
Gold Bearing

Research objective is to address an up to date task of developing the technology of associated gold recovery from complex ore. Object of research is the gold-bearing copper-pyrite ore. Gold was recovered in laboratory conditions with the use of gravity methods of mineral separation. Research tools. Rational modes of machinery operation have been determined through mathematical planning of experiments including the obtained results processing by mathematical and statistical methods. Methods of research. Gold was recovered in the grinding-classification circuit based on a seriesinstalled short-cone hydrocyclone, a jigging machine and a shaking table. Research results. The developed jig mode differs from the existing ones by the closed-circuit of jig machine chambers: from the feed of the second (in the direction of the light fraction travel) jig chamber, the light fraction (tailings) and undersize product – fraction with the increased content of accessory minerals (rough concentrate) are separated. The rough concentrate in the second chamber is directed to the first chamber of the machine, where the finished jig concentrate is obtained in the form of an undersize product. The light fraction moves from the first chamber to the second and is removed from the machine through the tail board. When fine-tuning the heavy fraction of jigging on a shaking table, it is recommended to mix 1/2 part of the initial feed of the tables with the rough concentrate isolated from the other 1/2 of the original feed. The new jigging mode and the scheme of concentration on the tables provide an increase in the gold content in the initial feed of the apparatus, which is the reason for a decrease in gold losses with the tails of the gravity circuit. Research relevance. Gold recovery increment by 4.77% was obtained due to the use of all three recommended scientific and technical measures, namely sands concentration in a short head cone crusher on a jig, switching the jig chambers to a closed circuit, and jet motion of concentrates on shaking tables. Scope of the results. The results should be applied when concentrating ore containing free (amalgamable) gold, as well as gold-bearing pyrite.

Gravity-flotation gold-bearing ore concentration

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
P. K. Fedotov ◽  
A. E. Senchenko ◽  
K. V. Fedotov ◽  
A. E. Burdonov
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Gold Recovery ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Flotation Concentrate ◽  
Stage Scheme ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Ore Minerals ◽  
Concentrate Yield ◽  
Flotation Concentration ◽  
Gold Bearing

The paper focuses on the study of the gold-bearing ore dressability. According to technological research, the average gold content is 11.88 g/t. The silver content is insignificant – 2.43 g/t. Main ore minerals in the sample are pyrite and pyrrhotite. According to mineralogical and X-ray structural analysis, the average content of these minerals in the ore is about 6 % (in total). Main rock-forming minerals of the original ore are: quartz (60.1 %), quartz-chlorite-mica aggregates (3.8 %), carbonates (7.1 %). According to the study results, it was found that the gold recovery in the GRG test was 72.75 % with a total concentrate yield of 1.34 % and a content of 664.78 g/t. At the same time, the gold content in tailings was 3.29 g/t. A stage test showed that it is advisable to use a two-stage scheme for ore processing by gravity technology only. The first stage is in the grinding cycle with the 60–70 % ore size, and the second stage is with the final classifier overflow size of 90 % –0.071 mm. Centrifugal separation has high performance as a free gold recovery operation in the grinding cycle. A concentrate with a gold content of 2426 g/t was obtained with a yield of 0.31 % and a recovery of 63.74 %. The beneficiation of first stage tailings ground to 90 % –0.071 mm at the KC-CVD concentrator (modeling) made it possible to extract gold into a total gravity concentrate (KC-MD + KC-CVD) of 87.25 % with a concentrate yield of 22.63 %. The gold content in tailings was 1.97 g/t. The results of gravity and flotation concentration of the original ore indicate the feasibility of using a combined gravity-flotation technological scheme. In a closed experiment of the initial ore beneficiation according to the gravity-flotation scheme at a natural pH of the pulp (without adding acid), the following products were obtained: gravity concentrate with a gold content of 2426 g/t at a yield of 0.31 % and recovery of 64.06 %; flotation concentrate (after the II cleaning) with a gold content of 122 g/t at a yield of 2.90 % and recovery of 33.01 %; the total gold recovery in the gravity-flotation concentrate was 94.07 % with a yield of 3.21 % and an Au content of 345.87 g/t, the gold content in the flotation tailings was 0.72 g/t.

Development of a combined processing technology for low-sulfide gold-bearing ores

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
A. K. Koyzhanova ◽  
B. K. Kenzhaliev ◽  
D. R. Magomedov ◽  
N. N. Abdyldaev
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Gold Recovery ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Gravity Concentration ◽  
Laboratory Equipment ◽  
Sorption Leaching ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Processing Circuit ◽  
Gold Bearing

This paper presents the results of laboratory dressability studies for low-sulfide gold-bearing ores using combined processing and subsequent oxidation leaching of the resulting combined concentrate. According to the current raw materials processing circuit used at the Sekisovskoye deposit, gravity concentration experiments were first carried out using the following laboratory equipment: a Knelson KSMD 3 centrifugal concentrator, an SKO-05 concentration table, and a two-chamber diaphragm jigging machine (i.e., OML by TsNIGRI). A significant portion (0.5 to 1.0 g/t) of the gold remains in the gravity concentration tailings. Subsequent flotation experiments for the tailings suggest that additional gold recovery is possible. The gold content in the final flotation tailings was in the range of 0.15–0.25 g/t. The final gold recovery in the combined process was therefore 93.7–96.5 %. The subsequent sorption cyanidation of the concentrate according to the current processing circuit allows depositing an average of 75.0–80.0 % Au on the coal. At the same time, the residual gold content in the sorption leaching tailings is significant and amounts to 3.6–7.5 g/t. The preliminary oxidation experiments for the concentrate slurry indicate the possibility of a more complete gold recovery with subsequent leaching, including sorption leaching. The residual gold content in the cakes was measured at 0.7–1.5 g/t, which ultimately yielded 95–96 % recovery at the leaching stage. The research was completed with the financial support of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan under grant No. АР05130143.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF THE JET SCHEME AND FLOTATION MODE WITH A VAPOR-AIR MIXTURE DURING GOLD-BEARING ORES ENRICHMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-93
Author(s):  
Sergey EVDOKIMOV ◽  
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Tatyana GERASIMENKO ◽  
Azamat MARZOEV ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid Phase ◽  
Bubble Surface ◽  
Surface Forces ◽  
Gold Recovery ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Hydrometallurgical Processing ◽  
Concentrate Yield ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Wetting Film ◽  
Gold Bearing

Increasing the economic efficiency of enrichment of refractory gold-bearing ores is possible by reducing the cost of opening sulphide gold-bearing concentrates by reducing the yield of flotation concentrate sent to pyro- or hydrometallurgical processing. It is important to maintain the achieved level of gold recovery into concentrate with a lower concentrate yield. In order to achieve this goal, the gold content in the main flotation operation is increased by mixing the rough concentrate separated from ½ part of the ore feed with another ½ part of it. Mixing in the flotation operation of products with a high level of wash ability (ability to separate) – initial feed and rough concentrate – is identical to an increase in the content of the extractable component in the original ore. In accordance with the new regime of flotation, the process is carried out in cold slurry with bubbles filled with hot steam. The physical basis of the new flotation regime is the dependence of the surface properties of air bubbles and surface forces that determine the stability of the liquid film separating the bubble and the particle on the temperature, which increases due to the heat of the vapor-liquid phase transition. Radial oscillations of the bubble surface as a result of pressure pulsations during condensation and vapor evaporation and surface thermal flows of liquid in the wetting film are factors that provide an increase in the completeness of gold recovery and the selectivity of flotation adhesion obtained in ore flotation experiments. In laboratory conditions, a comparison was made of the indicators obtained during the dressing of gold-bearing ores according to the factory and new schemes. It was revealed that the use of the developed technology allows, with a lower concentrate yield, to obtain an increase of 7.06% abs. extraction of gold into a concentrate of the best quality. A decrease in gold losses with flotation tailings is a consequence of an increase in the number of particles reaching the bubble surface due to radial oscillations of its surface and a weakening of the stability of the wetting film by the thermo-capillary mechanism. An increase in adhesion selectivity can be interpreted using the concept of surface forces of structural origin – an increase in the forces of hydrophobic attraction and hydrophilic repulsion with increasing temperature. The interaction of vapor bubbles with nanobubbles on the surface of the solid phase (wetting by the Cassie-Baxter mechanism) ensures efficient particle recovery by the coalescence mechanism of flotation.

scholarly journals Studies on heap leaching of gold with the addition of sodium acetate as an intensifying reagent

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Ye. K. Yessengarayev ◽  
B. S. Baimbetov ◽  
B. N. Surimbayev
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Acetate ◽  
Heap Leaching ◽  
Gold Recovery ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Electron Probe Analysis ◽  
Crushed Material ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Cyanide Consumption ◽  
Crushed Ore ◽  
Gold Bearing

One of the cheapest methods of extracting gold is heap leaching. However, the recovery of gold by this method is relatively low, compared with cyanidation of the crushed material, so the search for the ways to intensify leaching and increase gold recovery is an urgent task. Investigations on heap leaching of gold from the gold-bearing ore of the Sari Gunay deposit were conducted using a promising reagent sodium acetate to intensify the heap leaching process. The results of assay-gravimetric, chemical, mineralogical and granulometric analyses of oxidized ore are presented. The average gold content in the ore was 2.90 g/t. According to the electron probe analysis, gold in the ore is present in the form of fine (micron) inclusions in minerals and ore rocks. Comparative studies on heap leaching of gold from the crushed ore with a grain size of –20 + 0 mm with the addition of sodium acetate and without that were carried out. The degree of gold recovery with sodium acetate at a flow rate of 0.5 kg/t was 58.74%, that without sodium acetate was 54.69%, i.e. the addition of the reagent provides an increase in recovery of more than 4%. Leaching with the addition of the reagent also reduces sodium cyanide consumption from 0.65 to 0.59 kg/t. The research results have shown that sodium acetate can be used to intensify the process of heap leaching of gold when the ore size is –20+0 mm.

scholarly journals Geochemistry of Umm Rus gold - quartz veins, Central Eastern Desert Egypt. A new contribution

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 1139
Author(s):  
O. A. KAMEL ◽  
M. M. EL MAHALLAWI ◽  
H. M. HELMY
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Zone ◽  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Quartz Diorite ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Quartz Veins ◽  
Central Eastern Desert ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Gold Bearing

Gold-bearing quartz veins of the Umm Rus area occur at the south-eastern contact of a Precambrian granodiorite cupola within younger gabbros of 573-615 Ma belonging to the Pan African orogenic belt. The rocks are intruded within low-grade metasediments. At such contact, a hybrid zone is developed characterized by the occurrence of quartz diorite which grades into diorite and meta-ferrogabro. A limited number of mineralized quartz veins cut the granodiorite-gabbro complex. Different alteration zones are developed in the vicinity of the quartz veins. The quartz veins have two main trends; NS and N30 E, the latter one is usaually gold-bearing. The mineralized parts of the veins commonly consist of highly sheared and banded smoky quartz, and the gold content depends on the relation with the dykes. The element is strongly correlated with As and Ag, but moderately with Cu. Near to intermediate and basic dykes, the contents of Au, Ag and As are noticably increased

scholarly journals Gold Deposits in Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
José Cabello
Keyword(s):  
Porphyry Copper ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Ore Deposits ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Base Metals ◽  
Porphyry Copper Deposits ◽  
Copper Deposits ◽  
Mineralization Age ◽  
Low Sulfidation ◽  
Gold Bearing

A review of gold and gold bearing base metals deposits in Chile, indicate the existence of at least six different type of ore deposits, most largely formed during the Cenozoic with predominance in the Miocene. Mesozoic deposits are common but less relevant regarding their size and gold content. These hydrothermal ore deposits are genetically associated with subduction related Andean arc magmatism. Due to its relationship with episodic magmatism migrating eastward, there is a tendency for the deposits to be in distinct, north-south trending, belts with a progressive west to east decrease in mineralization age. After analysing 82 cases in total, main gold concentration can be assigned to high-sulfidation epithermal and porphyry type deposits. Low-sulfidation epithermal, IOCG and mesothermal type appears as less relevant. Gold bearing copper deposits constitute an important part of Chile’s total gold production. Both IOCG type but especially porphyry copper deposits are and will remain as a substantial source to supplement the future output of the gold in the country. The 82 deposits with their tonnage and grade studied, represent a total gold content of 11,662 t equivalent to 375 Moz, excluding past production for those exploited. A number of probable gold bearing base metals high tonnage deposits (IOCG and porphyry copper) do not include their gold content in public format, hence the number delivered could be estimated conservative. Methodical geochronological, ore types and zonation studies are required to better appreciate this metallogenic setting widening current understanding and future exploration results.

STALE GOLD-BEARING TAILINGS OF THE BALEIZOLOTO PLANT AND THE PROBLEM OF THEIR DISPOSAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
G. Yurgenson ◽  
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L. Shumilova ◽  
А. Khatkova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Extraction Technology ◽  
Useful Components ◽  
Technogenic Raw Materials ◽  
Gold Bearing

The relevance of the research is the need to recultivate the waste from the enrichment of gold-bearing ores that lie in the immediate vicinity of the residential areas of Baley city, which have a negative impact on the environmental situation in it, as well as to develop a technological approach to the extraction of gold and silver. The purpose of the study is to study the material composition and develop a technology for extracting precious metals. The object of the study is the stale tailings of the ZIF-1 plant “Baleizoloto”. The subject of the study is mineral composition of stale tailings, content of useful components and their extraction technology, the method and methodology presented by mineralogical and chemical analyses of enrichment tailings. Results. The analysis of the tailings dumps’ state of the gold recovery factories of the Baleizoloto plant was carried out. The contents of gold and other chemical elements, among which arsenic, zinc, copper, antimony, and lead predominate, were determined. The gold content prevails in the stale tailings of the ZIF-1 factory, which processed the ores of the Baley deposit, and is in the range of 1.09-1.37 g / t, on average – 1.17 g/t. This determines the prospects for their primary processing. The gold in the clay-sand fraction of the stale tailings is mainly found in thin accretions with quartz, carbonates, pyrite, arsenopyrite, sulfosols, and tellurides. The field of application is processing of technogenic raw materials. Conclusions. It was determined that the sizes of gold inclusions are in the range of 0.7-0.03 mm, the gold penetration varies from 63 to 91.15, and on average is 82.13; the main impurity in gold is silver with a content of 8.85-37%; the average silver content in the tailings of the ZIF-1 factory is 1.85 g/t; the recommended technological scheme for processing stale tailings of ZIF-1 of the Baleizoloto plant has been developed, including the following operations: photoelectron-activation preparation, pelletizing with active solution, heap leaching, two-stage sorption with bubbling with ozone

Evolutionary-genetic method for forecasting ore gold objects

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Yu. Pavlenko ◽  
◽  
S. Karelin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mineralization ◽  
Granite Gneiss ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Genetic Method ◽  
Geological Processes ◽  
Initial Substrate ◽  
Evolutionary Genetic ◽  
Eastern Transbaikalia ◽  
Reliable Knowledge ◽  
Gold Bearing

The subject of the research is methods for predicting natural heterogeneities containing mineralized areas of the earth’s interior, accumulations of ore gold, which allow obtaining reliable knowledge about a mineral object, applying effective methods for its assessment, study and practical use. The topic of research is an evolutionary-genetic method for predicting ore gold objects, which was used to assess the prospects for gold content in Eastern Transbaikalia on a scale of 1: 500,000 at the beginning of this century. The purpose of the work is to present a new forecasting method, which boils down to identifying geological formations specialized for gold (geoblocks, strata, horizons, zones), and within them - areas of multiple gold concentration. The research methodology consists in identifying the main stages, geological processes leading to the concentration of gold in the process of long-term evolution of natural facies and formations, clarifying the sources of gold and gold-bearing objects in them. As a result of forecasting, it was found that at high initial gold contents in the initial substrate, one or two stages of its mobilization formation and redistribution are sufficient, at low gold contents, multiple redistribution and concentration are required. The likelihood of the industrial and larger-scale gold mineralization is directly correlated with the prospects of geological structures for the localization of endogenous mineralization, conditions that exclude the dispersion of matter in the final phase of ore formation, and the number of concentration stages. The method makes it possible to exclude from the perspective huge areas of the central parts of granite-gneiss domes and granite plutons and requires careful attention to mafic blocks that are not exposed according to geophysical data by erosion, as well as to xenoliths and remnants of potentially gold-bearing host rocks among granitoids

scholarly journals LOCALIZATION CONDITIONS AND THE GOLD CONTENT OF THE SCARNS OF ZYGYRKOL ORE ZONE (KABARDINOBALKARSKAYA REPUBLIC)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
С.Г. Парада ◽  
В.В. Столяров
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Fault ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Minimum Level ◽  
Lower Section ◽  
The North ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Localization Conditions ◽  
North Western ◽  
Gold Bearing

Охарактеризованы геологические условия локализации золотоносных скарнов Зыгыркольской рудной зоны, выявленных при участии авторов в последние годы на Северном фланге Тырныаузского рудного узла. Установлено длительное (с позднего палеозоя) развитие деформаций в пределах Гитче-Тырныаузского рудного поля, и что к формированию продуктивной на золото Зыгыркольской рудной зоны привели вертикальное растяжение и взбросо-сдвиговые деформации альпийского этапа. Выделены четыре участка развития золотоносных скарнов. Раскрыты характер и степень их золотоносности. Они определяются уровнем денудационного среза Зыгыркольской зоны, которая воздымается в северо-западном направлении под меньшим углом, чем возвышается рельеф, что приводит к уходу под рельеф оптимального рудоносного уровня. Оптимальным уровнем среза обладает Нижний участок, где наиболее золотоносные скарны выходят на земную поверхность. Минимальным уровнем среза обладает Перевальный участок, где продуктивные на золото скарны располагаются на 100?200 м ниже земной поверхности. Are described the geological conditions for localization of the gold-bearing Zygyrkol ore zone scarns, revealed with the participation of the authors in recent years on the northern flank of Tyrnyauz ore unit. Is established the prolonged (from the late Paleozoic period) development of deformations within the limits of Gitche-Tyrnyauz ore field, and that to shaping of productive to gold Zygyrkol ore zone gave vertical tension and the reverse fault-shift deformations of Alpine stage. Four sections of the development of gold-bearing scarns are isolated. Nature and degree of their gold content are opened. They are determined by the level of the Zygyrkol zone denudation shear, which rises up in the North Western direction hearth by smaller angle than is raised relief, which leads to the withdrawal under the relief of optimum ore-bearing level. The lower section, where the gold-bearing scarns leave to the earth’s surface, possesses the optimum level of shear. The crossing section, where the scarns productive to gold are located on 100?200 m lower than earth’s surface, possesses the minimum level of shear.

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