Conference Proceedings
Seventh Mill Operators' Conference
Conference Proceedings
Seventh Mill Operators' Conference
Enhanced Leaching Through the Use of Power Ultrasound
Power ultrasound may be used in a number of ways to enhance the processing of minerals. It is both technically and commercially feasible to apply ultrasound to leaching processes in order to enhance the removal of contaminating minerals, or the rate and ultimate recovery of valuable mineral. When applied to the production of synthetic rutile from reduced ilmenite produced by the Becher process, its use proved beneficial to both the aeration and the final acid leach process. The enhanced performance is achieved through the very localised high energy release at the mineral surface from the collapse of cavitation bubbles produced by power ultrasound. This gives rise to two effects: initially, the rapid cleaning of mineral surfaces - of oxidation products and coatings of fine adhering gangue minerals - and the attenuation of the boundary layer at the mineral surface during leaching, which allows fresh leachant to contact the surface more readily.
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A F Collings, A D Farmer
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- Published: 1999
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