GEG3394

Mineral processing

Not offered by distance mode in 1998

6 points
* 78 hours
* Second semester
* Gippsland/distance (with compulsory on-campus practical session of three days at the University of Ballarat)
* Prerequisites: GEG2703, GEG2743

Objectives The student is expected to gain basic knowledge and understanding of economic justification of mineral processing and operations required to produce a mineral concentrate from crude ore, flow sheet, circuit design of a mineral processing plant and an awareness of the differences between the various mineral processing operations.

Synopsis (1) Economic justification; calculations; two-product formulae; ore characteristics. (2) Primary, secondary and tertiary crushing and grinding. Screening. Classification - Stoke's and Newton's laws; free and hindered setting; hydraulic, mechanical and cyclone classifiers. (3) Thickening and filtration. (4) Concentration - gravity, flotation, electrostatic and magnetic separation, heavy media separation. (5) Flow sheets of plants - circuit design. (6) Smelter schedules - payments, penalties, transport charges. (7) Tailings disposal.

Assessment Examination: 40%
* Assignments and laboratory: 60%

Prescribed texts

Brady K Mineral processing University of Ballarat, 1994