Mineral Liberation Analysis Services
The TESCAN TIMA for liberation analysis is used to optimise the process metallurgy extraction process. By examination of the particles in the process streams, the efficiency of the process of separating ore from the gangue minerals can be determined as the texture of the minerals is critical to determining the processing parameters.
Outputs from a Mineral Liberation Analysis Study
The following are some of the outputs that can be garnered from a mineral liberation analysis study:
- Mineral abundance lets you know all the ore and gangue minerals
- Mineral grain size versus particle size can be determined thus optimising the target grind size for the ore type
- Mineral chemistry of and ore and gangue help determine the best reagents for floatation
- Element deportment to determine the minerals in which the elements exist
- Mineral associations determine the minerals that are adjacent to your ore and the composition of your concentrate
- Mineral liberation determines the nature of your streams to help fine tune grinding and reagent performance
Benefits in Process Metallurgy Workflows
Liberation analysis can be performed on samples from almost any part of a process metallurgy workflow resulting mill optimisation.
Feed, concentrate and tails
Mineral liberation analysis
Improved recovery