CYCLONE Slumy from the mill discharge lopper is pumped through a Y-shaped metallic tube up to a cluster of cyclone.

The cyclone is designed with the ability to separate coarse and fine particles; this is achieved by tangentially feeding slumy to the cyclone under pressure which causes a spinning effect of the slumy within the cyclone. This effect causes the coarse territorial to be pushed to outside of the cyclone body and hence it is discharged as under flow via a spigot into a launder which goes back into the mill for re-grinding.

However the finer particles are forced to the center of the cyclone body and out of the top as overflow through the cortex finder to the C.I.L. tanks.

Also part of the underflow of the cyclone is channeled through a launder and through the scalping screen to the falcon concentrator.

CHAPTER 3 GRAVITY CIRCUIT This section is also known as the Intensive Leach Reactor (ILR) and is the third processing stage of Gold at the Nzema Gold Operations. This system makes use of a number of equipment in order to retrieve coarse gold. These equipment include; scalping screen, falcon concentrator, I.L.R feed cone, I.L.R solution cone, Leadich drum and a discharge dropper.

Reagents used in this section includes; caustic (NaH), sodium cyanide (NaCN), hydrogen peroxide (H2 O2) and flocculent.

PROCESS DESCRIPTION Part of cyclone feed is channeled to the I.L.R section and passes over a scalping screen which is fitted with a 2mm squared aperture screen deck. The screen allow the -2mm materials to pass through to feed the falcon concentrator for the recovery of coarse gold which the oversize is returned to the mill for re-grinding.

The -2mm feed enters the gravity concentrator and is subjected to a strong centrifugal force by the spinning bowl, by this action the coarse heavy gold get staked in the riffles of the bowl while the lighter tailings are washed over.

The concentrator usually under goes a back wash cycle every hour where the gold concentrate is washed out into a concentrate lopper.

Once sufficient concentrate has been accumulated in the feed- cone, it is then subjected to an intensive cyanidation reactor (ICR) hence the name I.L.R solid concentrate from the feed cone are fed into the leaching rolling drum reactor.

Reagents like concentrated cyanide solution and caustic are fed into the drum in the presence of Hydrogen peroxide to react with solid concentrates.

The solution is continuously recycled from the drum to the solution cone for a prescribed resistant time. At the end of leaching, the pregnant solution is clarified with the aid of flocculent and is then forwarded to the I.L.R pregnant Solution Tank. This continues until a batch is completed and then later pumped to the I.L.R electroning cell for gold recovery.

However, remaining leached solution is pumped back to the SAG mill discharge lopper.