Coarse Particle Recovery
Changes Everything!
Particles approximately 850 microns
HydroFloat Separator
Overflow Coarse Mineral
Recovers virtually all
particles which exhibit
greater than 1% hydrophobic
surface expression
Air
Underflow Coarse Tails
EFD’s HydroFloat ™ Separator radically
improves the traditional sulfide processing
circuit through Coarse Particle Flotation.
Unlike conventional flotation, the HydroFloat
Separator recovers particles as large as
800 microns with as little as 1% mineral
surface expression. By rejecting the balance
as “coarse” tailings, much of the recirculating
load is eliminated, thus greatly increasing mill
capacity… with NO loss in mineral recovery!
Coarse Particle Recovery using
EFD’s HydroFloat Separator can:
• Increase mill throughput by
as much as 15-20%
• Reduce energy & media consumption
• Produce a coarse tailing stream
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