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ORE SORTING AND GRAVITY_proof 27/04/2016 10:07 Page 5 ORE SORTING AND GRAVITY The intellectual property of U-pgrade is held by the wholly owned subsidiary Uranium Beneficiation. The results for the Marenica Project ore are summarised below; up to 120 t/h. The combination of residual energy (air pressure and volume) from the lower deck is used with an additional small airflow from the main fan (via bypass) for stratification of the material on the upper deck. The working principle is illustrated in the following schematic. Before After The big advantage of this Ore sample 1 Mt @ 100 ppm 13,000 t @ 5,000 ppm design is that – although Process recovery 75% 72% capacities have been OPEX $80/lb $40/lb doubled – the footprint of the jig plant remains the The concentration of uranium in the feed to same and the jigging air requirement is only the leaching circuit dramatically reduces the marginally increased compared to the single deck mass of ore to be leached and therefore the size units. The first such plant was commissioned of the traditional leaching plant. Initial successfully last year in India where 35 allair jig assessments and estimates indicate that by units are in operation already, the largest number using this new process a reduction in operating in a single country worldwide. costs of 50-70% and capital costs of 30-50% is achievable. Another new development from allmineral is related to the gaustec® wet high intensity magnetic separators (WHIMS). While over recent years increased feed capacities have been the focus of the R&D work, which resulted in feed capacities of up to 1,400 t/h per unit, safer and trouble-free operation was the goal of gaustec’s latest development, the gaustec® NoBLOCK screen. This NoBLOCK screen sits upstream of the WHIMS and avoids the known, but so far unsolved issue of clogging of matrix boxes by oversize materials. Such clogging results in less efficient separation, capacity reduction and finally plant downtime for cleaning the matrix The principle of operation of allmineral’s NoBLOCK screen Jigging and more In the early 2000s allmineral introduced the allair® jig which works dry with air only in coal. Since then about 80 allair jigs have been supplied for coal preparation plants in the US, India, Colombia, Spain and Ukraine. Capacities of these jigs are – depending on the feed size – between 60 and 30 t/h. The capacities per jig can be doubled by using the recently developed allair type MP fitted with two jigging decks in one unit reaching capacities of Complete Lab Services for Flow Sheet Development With more than 20,000 sq.ft. of dedicated laboratory space and an array of lab and pilot equipment, the Eriez Flotation Division (EFD) has the tools to test and provide detailed process analysis and state-of-the-art solutions for nearly any application. To T o see se iit all ll visit visit EriezFlotation.com Eriez’ Flotation Lab Equipment includes: • Single and multi-stage column flotation circuits • Bench top flotation cells • Pilot-scale columns • Lab-and pilot-scale HydroFloat Separators • Lab-and pilot-scale CrossFlow Separators • Grinding equipment (cone, ball, and rod mills) • The CPT Mini Pilot Plant • XRF analytical capabilities