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Gravity Separation Characteristic for the Gold.Silver Ores on the Philippine Mankayan District  

Kim, Hyung-Seok (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Chae, Soo-Chun (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Jeong-Yun (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Sohn, Jeong-Soo (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Kim, Sang-Bae (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea / v.21, no.4, 2008 , pp. 383-395 More about this Journal
Abstract
To enhance the grade and recovery rate of the gold/silver ores which yield at Philippine Mankayan mine, we studied the characteristics which are the geologic and mineralogical features of gold and silver ore, the liberation by crushing and grinding, the separation by sieving and shaking table. Gold/silver ore is composed of the sulfide minerals like pyrite, sphalerite, galena; and the gangue minerals which is quartz, clay. Gold/silver element are mainly contained in a sulfide minerals like pyrite, sphalerite and galena. To increase the liberation rate of sulfide minerals containing gold/silver element, the gold/silver ore has to be grounded under $100{\mu}m$ very finely because the crystal size of sulfide minerals is distributed from $1{\mu}m$ to $100{\mu}m$. The liberation rate of gold/silver ore increases to 92% when the particle size ($d_{90}$) of ore is grounded below $100{\mu}m$ by jaw crusher $\to$ cone crusher $\to$ rod mill by steps. The grade and recovery of sulfide minerals could not be enhanced by sieving separation because those crystal size is distributed homogeneously below $100{\mu}m$. But, when we separated the sieved ore using shaking table, the gold and silver grade increased to 40 ppm and 140 ppm, respectively. Then the recovery rate of gold reach almost 100% but that of silver is no more that 50%.
Keywords
gold and silver ore; sulfide mineral; gravity separation; liberation; shaking table;
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