Mineralogy Characteristic Study and Exploration on the Valuable Metals Enrichment of Coal Fly Ash

The separation and enrichment can be targeted to enrich in fly ash and reduce the cost of leaching and recovering of fly ash. Regarding their different properties, the single-component separation was used to obtain uncompleted burned carbon, glass microbeads, minerals, and other characteristic components from the ash. Also, the mineral composition of each component was analyzed by electron microscopy. The metal minerals were mainly concentrated in the mineral components. Besides, the electron probe microanalysis shows that the Pt content in the minerals of fly ash was significantly correlated with the metal contents of Ni and Cu. After the obtainment of the characteristics of fly ash metal enrichment, the heavy minerals with Cu, Ni, Pt, Pd, and other target metal elements were enriched by gravity separation and flotation. The enrichment coefficients of Cu, Ni, Pt, and Pd were 1.45, 1.33, 1.90, and 1.60, respectively, and the recovery rates were 77%, 81%, 97%, and 88%, respectively. Since the yield of heavy minerals obtained by separation was 62.24%, it indicated the physical separation method could significantly reduce the cost of leaching and recovering of fly ash metal resources.

Mineralogy Characteristic Study and Exploration on the Valuable Metals Enrichment of Coal Fly Ash

The separation and enrichment can be targeted to enrich the rare and precious metals in fly ash and reduce the cost of leaching and recovering of fly ash. Regarding their different properties, the single-component separation was used to obtain uncompleted burned carbon, glass microbeads, minerals, and other characteristic components from the ash. Also, the mineral composition of each component was analyzed by electron microscopy. The metal minerals were mainly concentrated in the mineral components. Besides, the electron probe micro-analysis shows that the Pt content in the minerals of fly ash was significantly correlated with the metal contents of Ni and Cu. After the obtainment of the characteristics of fly ash metal enrichment, the heavy minerals with Cu, Ni, Pt, Pd, and other target metal elements were enriched by gravity separation and flotation. The enrichment coefficients of Cu, Ni, Pt, and Pd were 1.45, 1.33, 1.90 and 1.60, respectively, and the recovery rates were 77%, 81%, 97% and 88% respectively. Since the yield of heavy minerals obtained by separation was 62.24%, it indicated the physical separation method could significantly reduce the cost of leaching and recovering of fly ash metal resources.

Process Mineralogy of Jinshan Gold Ore Based on Mineral Liberation Analysis System

Traditional measurement and modern SEM-based mineral liberation analysis (MLA) system were employed to obtain the process mineralogy characteristic of Jinshan gold ore which had high Au (6.20g/t) and low sulfide (0.25%). XBSE, XBSE_STD and SPL_Lt MLA modes are used in this case, which make the results timely, reliable and quantitative. The gold behaves irregular granular native gold or silver-bearing native gold of which the Au content ranging from 93%to 100%. Gold mainly occurred as liberated or in gold-carrying gangue minerals, such as quartz and biotite,rarely in pyrite in the form of fissure gold, inter-crystalline gold or inclusion gold . The particle size of the Gold minerals range from 0.001mm to 0.010mm , which is too fine to recover from beneficiating method. Combined process should be adopted.