Gold Mine Tailings Thickener Design

Thickeners and Clarifiers

Outotec is a global leader in the design, fabrication and supply of thickening and clarifying solutions. ... concentrates Flotation tailings Iron ore Gold Copper CCD Nickel laterite CCD Molybdenum concentrate Mineral sands slimes Platinum Uranium ... The PT-S is a pre-engineered range of paste thickeners to suit mine backfill applications ...

Tailings thickener retrofit, OK Tedi

The Ok Tedi mine, operated by Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML), is a major producer of copper concentrate for the world's smelting market, yielding some 600,000 tonnes of high-grade copper concentrate a year and 500,000oz of gold. The mine is located on Mount Fubilan, Western Province of PNG, with an altitude of approx 1500m.

The Application of Thickener in Mining Industry

The thickener is important equipment for dehydration, drug removal, and washing in the process of beneficiation and chlorination in gold mines. The chlorination workshop needs multiple thickeners to complete the drug removal and washing operations. Underflow pulp concentration and pulp processing capacity are two important production indicators ...

How a Thickener Works

Dorr thickeners are used in the metallurgical field to thicken prior to agitation and filtration, in the countercurrent washing of cyanide slime, for thickening …

Thickeners and Clarifiers

thickener and clarifying industry (e.g. Feedwell technology). Key features • For use with or without flocculation • Robust design well suited for mining applications • Overflow …

Thickeners | Mining Tailings Dewatering

The thickener is applicable to concentrate and tailings dewatering treatment in mining applications, widely used in metallurgy, the chemical industry, coal, non-metallic mineral processing plants, environmental protection, and other industries. The high-efficiency mining thickener is not a gravity separation equipment, but a piece of dewatering …

Thickener upgrade worth its weight in gold

Thickener upgrade worth its weight in gold. With productivity and performance hampered by their leach feed thickener, one of Australia's largest open-pit gold mines asked FLS …

[PDF] Paste and Thickened Tailings Transportation Design …

Tailings transport is an integrated element in any wet tailings storage facility (TSF). Tailings from the process plant are often thickened to a moderate or relatively high (but still pumpable) solids concentration, depending on several parameters mainly the TSF deposition requirements and strategies, process plant water security status and the …

Additivity Effect on Properties of Cemented Ultra-Fine Tailings

Tailings from gold mines gradually approach ultra-fine, making mine backfill costs higher and strength lower, which poses a serious threat to the safety of underground personnel and equipment. It is well known that suitable chemical admixtures can enhance the working properties of mortar materials. Therefore, in order to achieve …

Tailings Management With Paste Thickening

Iron Ore Concentration Process. Magnetite is mined in large chunks and is crushed into small particles by a series of crushers. After primary crushing with jaw crushers, secondary crushing with gyratory crushers, and tertiary crushing with cone or high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR), the ore is screened on vibrating screens to size the particles.

Copper Tailings Thickener Characteristics [16,17].

Once the mine tailings leave the flotation cells, they can be taken to thickening equipment, where the use of chemical additives called flocculants accelerates the sedimentation of the tailings ...

Design, Construction and Commissioning of Gold Tailings …

A pump station for hydraulic mining of the slimes tailings dam also part of the plant.Key features of the Mazowe sands Plant are described and include:• Hydraulic mining of gold tailings dump.• Feed preparation section that includes a (W x L) 2.4 m wide x 4.8 m trash screen, 250 m3 surge tank, a cluster cyclones with 2 x 500 mm diam ...

Liquid–Solid Separation in Gold Processing

Figure 18.4 illustrates data to determine the optimum feed solids for sulfide and oxide ores from a gold mine. There is a solids weight percent ... Tailings thickener selection is more of a decision for the whole tailings system. Costs of the disposal site, transportation of slurry, paste/thickened tailings, and return water must be considered ...

Application of Hydrocyclone in Gold Ore Tailings

The comprehensive tailings concentration can reach 45% -50%. The promotion of this combined process can not only play the role of tailings concentration equipment, but also reduce the investment of thickeners. 4.Gold Tailings Enrichment. Gold mines often contain a lot of valuable associated minerals, such as iron, silver and …

The requirements for the management of tailings

Following the much-publicised 2019 Brumadinho tailings dam disaster in Brazil, where a tailings facility collapsed releasing 11.7 million cubic metres of toxic mud and killing more than 200 people according to BBC reports; the management of tailings storage facilities, ("TSFs") has come under increasing international scrutiny. By …

Kirkland Lake Gold

The company's operations center around the Macassa Mine in Kirkland Lake, Northern Ontario. Macassa Mine is a deep underground mining operation accessed through a mineshaft. TMG's Contributions. TMG was integral in facilitating the successful installation of the tailings thickener at Kirkland Lake Gold's Macassa Mine.

Thickeners or thickener plants

The benefits of good plant design are not limited to new thickener installations. Tailings dams in existing plants fill faster than is optimal, and often the …

Thickener design procedure and method

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Dewatered tailings: a risk reduction solution for Australia …

In 2019, when the Brumadinho tailings dam breached at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine in Brazil, wiping out an entire village and killing 270 people, the world determinedly turned its attention to mine tailings facilities.. Tailings are an unfortunate, but inevitable, part of the mining process and Brumadinho was not the first – and likely …

Beginners guide to thickeners

Bed level is a frequently installed instrument and can be installed and serviced during normal thickener operation. Instruments measure the height of the interface between thickened slurry at the bottom of the thickener and the clarified liquor at the top. The interface is not always a …

(PDF) Understanding the Thickening Process

Thickener outputs can accommodate a range of tailings disposal options from low yield stress, easily pumped suspensions for disposal in conventional 'wet' tailings dams to more concent rated ...