FLOTATION

Lecture: Wednesday (13:00 - 15:30)

Kholida Tul Khairy, Room Pertamina 18.1

Lecture 1, 28th February 2024

Email: kholida.tul.khairy@uts.ac.id
LECTURE STYLE

1. Offline Class

2. Check Attendance via siakad (10%)

3. Quiz (15%), Assignment (15%), MidTerm

(30%), FInal Exam (30%)

 CLASS SCHEDULE
1. Introduction to mineral processing, physic 9. Pulp potential, buble generation and froth
and chemistry of interface (28/02) performance (24/04)
2. Surface tension, interfacial, cohession, 10. Entraintment, the engineering of flotation
adhession (06/03) (01/05)
3. Introduction to flotation. Principle of flotation 11. Microflotatation, Batchflotation, Basic flotation
(13/03) circuit, circuit flexability, electroflotation (08/05)
4. Classification of minerals. Collectors 12. Agglomeration skin flotation, flotation plant
(anionic) (20/03) practice, Reagents and conditioning, control of
5. Collectors (cationic), Frothers, Activators, flotation plants (15/05)
Depressant (inorganic and polymeric) 13. Typical flotation separations. Copper ores,
(27/03) copper oxide, lead zinc, copper lead zinc (22/05)
6. The Importance of pH (03/04) 14. Typical flotation separations. Nickel ores,
7. Role of bubble generation. Review (10/04) platinum ores, iron ores, coal(29/05)
8. Mid-Term (17/04) 15. Review (05/06)
16. Final Exam (12/06)
Introduction to
Mineral Processing
Minerals. The forms in which metals
are found in the crust of the earth and
as sea-bed deposit depend on their
reactivity with their environment,
particularly with oxygen, sulphur, and
carbon dioxide.

The naturally occuring compounds are

known as minerals, Most of which
have been given names according to
their composition (e.g. Galena - lead
sulphide, PbS; Sphalerite - zinc
sulphide, ZnS; Casstterite - tin oxide,
SnO2
Mineral Processing/Ore Dressing/ Mineral
Dressing
As-mined Ore —> consist of valuable minerals
and gangue.

Mineral processing —> to separate the grains

of valuable minerals from the gangue minerals
to produce an enriched portion , or
concentrate, containing most of the valuable
minerals, and a discard, or tailing, containing
predominantly the gangue minerals (it can be
physically and chemical methods).
The recovery, The ratio of concentration
The recovery is the percentage of the total metal contained in the ore
that is recovered from the concentrate (in the case of concentration of a
metallic ore).

A recovery of 90% means that 90% of the metal in the ore is recovered in
the concentrate and 10% is lost in the tailings —> valuable end product.

The ratio of concentration is the ratio of the weight of the feed (or heads)
to the weight of the concentrates, It measure the efficiency of the
concentrartion process —> value of the ratio of concentration will
increase with the grade of concentrate.
The Grade
Reffering to the content of the
marketable end product in the
material. Thus, in metallic ores, the per
cent metal is often quoted, although
in the case of very low-grade ores,
such as gold, metal content my be
expressed as parts per million (ppm),
or its equivalent grams per tonne
(g/t).
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