Production of heavy-media-quality magnetite concentrate from Kesikköprü iron ore tailings

Date

2010

Author

Güngör, Kazım

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ABSTRACT PRODUCTION OF HEAVY-MEDIA-QUALITY MAGNETITE CONCENTRATE FROM KESıKKÖPRÜ IRON ORE TAILINGS Güngör, Kazım M. Sc. Department of Mining Engineering Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Ümit Atalay May 2010, 91 pages The aim of this research was to investigate the possibility of the production of a magnetite concentrate which is suitable for preparation of heavy media from iron ore tailings of Güncem Mining Company magnetic separation facility. During the study, three different tailings named as low grade, medium grade and high grade with 5.91 % Fe3O4, 19.06 % Fe3O4 and 37.06 % Fe3O4, respectively, were used. Mineralogical analyses of test samples showed that magnetite and hematite were the major ore minerals while pyrite and chalcopyrite were found in trace amounts. Actimolite, tremolite, epidote, chlorite, quartz, calcite, and dolomite were the gangue minerals. The effects of feed particle size and applied magnetic field intensity on the Fe3O4 grade and recovery of concentrate were examined throughout magnetic concentration tests. The highest grade magnetite concentrate with 79.98% Fe3O4 content was obtained with 65.42% recovery from 100% -75 micron size feed at 1000 Gauss magnetic field intensity from high grade tailing.

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Mining engineering.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611830/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19642

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Theses