Flotation Apps

Rougher Cleaner Circuits












ROUGHER-CLEANER FLOTATION CIRCUITS:

The below calculations apply to:
  • Rougher circuit with known tailing weight and assays; whose concentrate stream feeds a cleaner circuit (rougher-cleaner).

  • Cleaner circuit followed by a recleaner circuit.

  • Preflotation followed by preflotation cleaner circuits


  • The rougher circuit concentrate and feed streams are calculated from the cleaner concentrates and both tailing streams.
    Rougher-Cleaner circuits
    To use:
  • Enter the rougher tailing name, weights and assays (no flotation time).

  • Enter the cleaner concentrates and tailing names, concentrates flotation time, weights and assays.

  • The flotation times are not cumulative (no flotation time for the cleaner tailing).

  • Select the value element/mineral to plot the selectivity curves for the cleaner circuit.

  • Provide one element/mineral grade at which cumulative recoveries for the cleaner circuit should be tabulated.

  • Provide one element/mineral recovery at which cumulative grades for the cleaner circuit should be tabulated.

  • Specify if the flotation kinetics are to be calculated for the cleaner circuit (using regression techniques).

  • Click on "Mass balance" button to calculate the cumulative data and plot graphs.

  • Click on "Download results in Excel" button to save the results.


  • The cumulative recoveries are calculated with respect to each circuit feed.
    The calculation of iron sulphide (IS) and non sulphide gangue (NSG) assays can be completed at the Metallurgical.App website.



    Rougher circuit

    Rghr. tailno concentrate
    Flot.
    time (min)
    Dry
    weights (g)
    Cu (%) Pb (%) Zn (%) Ni (%) S (%) Fe (%) Au (g/t) Ag (g/t) Bi (g/t) Mo (g/t) PGMs (g/t) As (%) SiO2 (%) MgO (%) Al2O3 (%) CaO (%) Fe2O3 (%) Li2O (%) K2O(%) F (%) U (g/t) C (%) IS (%) NSG (%)
    N/A


    Cleaner circuit

    Clnr. Cons. & TailCon1
    Con2
    Con3
    Con4
    Con5
    Tail
    Flot.
    time (min)0.5
    1.0
    1.5
    3.0
    4.0
    Dry
    weights (g)
    Cu (%) Pb (%) Zn (%) Ni (%) S (%) Fe (%) Au (g/t) Ag (g/t) Bi (g/t) Mo (g/t) PGMs (g/t) As (%) SiO2 (%) MgO (%) Al2O3 (%) CaO (%) Fe2O3 (%) Li2O (%) K2O(%) F (%) U (g/t) C (%) IS (%) NSG (%)
    Plot cleaner selectivity curves against:

    Calculate cleaner recoveries at: % or g/t grade.   |   Calculate cleaner grades at: % recovery.



    *Before re-calculating, delete the previously calculated rougher concentrate name, weight and assays.
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    WITH THE GRAPHS:
  • Single click on one data series from the legend to view/unview it.

  • Double click on one data series from the legend to show only one series.

  • Double click again to show all data series.

  • You can also edit the graphs' titles, axes titles, zoom in, zoom out, pan, auto-scale and export the results using the toolbar at the top of each graph.