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Aleksei E. Pelevin
Aleksei E. Pelevin
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Dr.Sci.
Ural State Mining University
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Dr.Sci.
Ural State Mining University

Articles

Metallurgy and concentration
  • Date submitted
    2022-04-20
  • Date accepted
    2022-07-21
  • Date published
    2022-11-03

Iron ore beneficiation technologies in Russia and ways to improve their efficiency

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Increasing the efficiency of crushing circuits is associated with a decrease in the particle size of finely crushed ore and the use of dry magnetic separation of crushed ore. Reducing grinding costs is achieved by using drum mills jointly with mills of other designs. The use of automation systems, slurry demagnetization, technologies with staged concentrate separation, and beneficiation and fine screening in a closed grinding cycle lead to a reduction in grinding costs. The main industrial technology for improving the quality of concentrate is its additional beneficiation using regrinding, fine screening, flotation, and magnetic-gravity separators. Increasing the integrated use of iron ore raw materials is associated with an increase in the yield of iron concentrate and the production of hematite concentrate during the beneficiation of hematite-magnetite ores and ilmenite concentrate during the beneficiation of titanomagnetite ores. Incremented concentrate yield is possible by using magnetic separators with an increased magnetic induction up to 0.25-0.5 T in the first stages of beneficiation. To obtain hematite and ilmenite concentrates, combined technologies can be used, including fine screening, high-gradient magnetic, gravity, flotation, and electrical separation.

How to cite: Pelevin A.E. Iron ore beneficiation technologies in Russia and ways to improve their efficiency // Journal of Mining Institute. 2022. Vol. 256. p. 579-592. DOI: 10.31897/PMI.2022.61