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WO2014094058A1
WO2014094058A1 PCT/AU2013/001494 AU2013001494W WO2014094058A1 WO 2014094058 A1 WO2014094058 A1 WO 2014094058A1 AU 2013001494 W AU2013001494 W AU 2013001494W WO 2014094058 A1 WO2014094058 A1 WO 2014094058A1
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Samuel Kingman
Christopher Dodds
Aled Jones
Andrew Batchelor
Grant Ashley Wellwood
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
    • C22B3/00—Extraction of metal compounds from ores or concentrates by wet processes
    • C22B3/04—Extraction of metal compounds from ores or concentrates by wet processes by leaching
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
    • C22B4/00—Electrothermal treatment of ores or metallurgical products for obtaining metals or alloys
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B6/00—Heating by electric, magnetic or electromagnetic fields
    • H05B6/46—Dielectric heating
    • H05B6/62—Apparatus for specific applications
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
    • B02C19/00—Other disintegrating devices or methods
    • B02C19/18—Use of auxiliary physical effects, e.g. ultrasonics, irradiation, for disintegrating
    • B02C2019/183—Crushing by discharge of high electrical energy
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B2214/00—Aspects relating to resistive heating, induction heating and heating using microwaves, covered by groups H05B3/00, H05B6/00
    • H05B2214/03—Heating of hydrocarbons
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P10/00—Technologies related to metal processing
    • Y02P10/20—Recycling

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  • the present invention relates to the recovery of valuable components, such as metals or minerals, from mined material.
  • the present invention relates to process flows for the efficient recovery of the valuable components from ore fragments.
  • Extraction of copper and other valuable minerals/metals from ores usually involves a number of unit operations e.g. crushing, SAG milling, ball milling, froth flotation etc. It is well know that the energy consumption in such processes is very high. There is a continuous need to improve the efficiency of each unit operation or recovery process as a whole.
  • the present invention provides a recovery process for valuable components, such as metals or minerals, in mined material that includes:
  • the term "mined” material is understood herein to include metalliferous material and non-metalliferous material. Copper-containing ores, iron-containing ores, nickel-containing ores, and uranium-containing ores are examples of metalliferous material. Coal is an example of a non-metalliferous material.
  • the term “mined” material is understood herein to include, but is not limited to, (a) run-of-mine material and (b) run-of-mine material that has been subjected to at least primary crushing or similar size reduction after the material has been mined and prior to being sorted.
  • the term “mined” material includes mined material that is in stockpiles.
  • the term “mined” material includes geological core samples. The recovery process may include fragment sorting of run of mine material into an "accepts" category and a "rejects” category and transferring accepted ore fragments only to the fracture step (a).
  • the sorting step may be a dry sorting step.
  • the dry sorting step may include exposing fragments to electromagnetic radiation and assessing the composition of the fragments based on the response of the fragments to the electromagnetic radiation.
  • the dry sorting step may include exposing fragments to an alternating magnetic field which results in induction heating of fragments and assessing the composition of the fragments based on the response of the fragments to the alternating magnetic field.
  • the treatment step (b) may include treating the fractured ore fragments in one only of the heap leaching or flotation processes.
  • the treatment step (b) may include treating the fractured ore fragments in more than one of the heap leaching or flotation processes, with a part of the fractured ore fragments being treated in one of the processes and another part of the fractured ore fragments being treated in another one of the processes.
  • the treatment step (b) may include a high pressure grinding roll step wherein the ore fragments are crushed by compression between two or more pairs of crushing rolls.
  • the heap leaching step may be any suitable heap leaching step.
  • the flotation treatment step may be any suitable flotation step.
  • the flotation treatment step may include an attrition milling step that abrades valuable components from the surface of fragments, for example from the high pressure grinding roll step, and produces an oversize category and an undersize category of fragments.
  • the flotation treatment step may include flotation processing of fragments in the undersize category to recover valuable components.
  • the flotation treatment step may include a semi-autogenous milling step of fragments, for example from the high pressure grinding roll step.
  • the flotation treatment step may include flotation processing of fragments from the semi-autogenous milling step to recover valuable components.
  • a recovery process 100 having a number of optional process flows is shown.
  • the process flows of the recovery process 100 are designed for the efficient recovery of valuable components from a feed material.
  • Mined material in the form of ore fragments of any suitable size and size distribution, is received at feed point 10.
  • the ore fragments are run-of-mine material.
  • the run-of-mine material is optionally subjected to at least primary crushing or similar size reduction after the material has been mined and prior to being sorted.
  • the ore fragments can be sourced from feed stockpiles.
  • the ore fragments flow from the feed point 10 to a fracture station 20. Any one of a number of techniques may be employed at the fracture station 20 to fracture the ore fragments. Specifically, the ore fragments may be fractured using either an electro fracturing technique 22 or an electromagnetic radiation technique 24 such as microwave or radio frequency induced fracturing.
  • Electro fracturing 22 uses electrical energy to cause the cracking, including micro-cracking, and then fracturing of ore fragments.
  • An example electro fracturing technique 22 is described in the Applicant's PCT International Application
  • Radiation induced fracturing 24 includes exposing ore fragments in an applicator to high power density electromagnetic energy thereby causing structural alteration of the ore fragments.
  • the electromagnetic radiation fracturing may operate with any suitable electromagnetic radiation.
  • the radiation may be any one or more of X-ray, microwave and radio frequency radiation.
  • the structural alteration of the ore fragments is a result of differences in thermal expansion of minerals/metals within the ore fragments as opposed to the thermal expansion of the remainder of the ore fragment. As a consequence of exposure to electromagnetic energy, regions of high stress/strain are created within the ore fragments and thus cracking within the ore fragments.
  • the operating conditions including frequency, residence time, power density, etc., are selected so that the selected fragments are structurally altered to facilitate downstream recovery processing of the fragments.
  • the electromagnetic radiation fracture 24 may not be a viable option from an energy (cost) viewpoint.
  • the recovery process 100 may then include a fragment sorter 60 as described herein below.
  • Fractured fragments from the fracture station 20 are processed in either a heap leaching process 30 or one of two flotation processes 40, 50 in this embodiment of the invention.
  • Decision block 102 indicates the optional use of one of the three downstream treatment processes 30, 40, 50. It is noted that the invention is not limited to this selection or combination of heap leaching and flotation processes and extends to any suitable selection and combination of the processes.
  • Each of the downstream treatment processes 30, 40, 50 includes an optional high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) step 60.
  • HPGR high pressure grinding roll
  • the fragments optionally proceeding to the HPGR step 60 are crushed by compression of the fragments between two or more pairs of crushing rolls.
  • An example HPGR step 60 is described in the Applicant's PCT International Application WO2006/042378, incorporated herein by reference.
  • the recovery process 100 takes advantage of exposing minerals/metals at a high bulk particle size (at fracturing station 20) and thus requires less mechanical comminution energy input for the treatment processes 30, 40, 50.
  • the fractured fragments received from fracture station 20 may be heap leached in accordance with downstream heap leaching process 30 to recover valuable components from ore fragments.
  • the fractured fragments may first be ground in HPGR step 60 before heap leaching 32 as discussed.
  • Heap leaching is a well-known treatment process to extract valuable minerals and metals from ore fragments.
  • the fracturing of the ore fragments at fracturing station 20 exposes the minerals/metals in the ore fragments to improve access of a leach solution to the valuable components.
  • a major challenge in this ore type is the mass transfer of solution to the copper through the very hard quartz matrix. This problem is alleviated as the copper minerals are exposed without significant energy input at fracturing station 20.
  • An example leaching process 30 is described in the Applicant's PCT International Application WO 2009/000037, incorporated herein by reference.
  • the fractured fragments received from fracture station 20 may be processed in one of two flotation processes 40, 50.
  • Attrition milling station 42 is used to abrade the minerals/metals, such as copper, from the surface of the ore fragments.
  • the minerals/metals after fracture 20 are beneficially located at or close to the surface of the ore fragments making milling at attrition station 42 highly effective.
  • the treatment process 40 avoids use of a highly expensive SAG mill. Significant grinding energy is saved as a result of exposing or moving the copper sulphide minerals to the surface during fracturing 20 to be removed by attrition in attrition station 42.
  • the undersized ore particles 47 removed during attrition are screened in screen 44. Particles which are fine 43 are sent directly to flotation unit 48. Coarse particles 45 are milled in a ball mill 46 before being sent on to the flotation unit 48.
  • Oversized ore particles 49 from the attrition milling station 42 are transported to either heap 32 for heap leaching or the tailings pond 68 for disposal.
  • the downstream treatment process 50 is similar to the treatment process 40, with the only difference being that a SAG mill 52 with a recycle crusher 54 replaces the attrition milling station 42. Steps in the treatment process 50 which are the same as the steps in the treatment process 40 are referenced by the same reference numerals.
  • the feed material at feed point 10 is optionally fragment sorted, typically dry fragment sorted, at fragment sorting step 60 before being received at the fracture station 20.
  • the fragment sorting step 60 comprises a fragment sorter.
  • the fragment sorter utilizes either a radio frequency or a microwave applicator combined with an infrared camera to identify individual ore fragments having relatively high mineral/metal content. This technique includes assessing the composition of the fragments based on the response of the fragments to the electromagnetic radiation.
  • a radio frequency based fragment sorter that may be utilized is described in Applicant's PCT International Application WO 2011/075768, which is incorporated herein by reference.
  • An example of a microwave based fragment sorter that may be utilized is described in PCT International Application WO 2007/051225, which is also incorporated herein by reference.
  • fragment sorter utilizes an alternating magnetic field which results in induction heating of fragments.
  • Valuable material in mined material is often more electrically conductive material than non-valuable material and therefore directly or indirectly assessing the electrical conductivity of mined material can provide an indication of whether there is valuable material in the mined material.
  • This technique includes and assessing the composition of fragments based on the response of the fragments to the alternating magnetic field.
  • Accept fragments 62 having relatively high content of valuable mineral/metal continue to the fracture station 20.
  • Reject fragments 64 which have relatively low content of valuable mineral/metal proceeds to either heap leaching 32 or a tailings pond 68.
  • the fragment sorting step 60 is logically included when energy and/or cost savings due to relatively higher content valuable mineral/metal fractured fragments entering the treatment processes 30, 40, 50 outweighs the cost of the fragment sorting step 60.
  • the recovery process 100 describes improved efficiency recovery processes including a fracture station 20 and optional fragment sorting 60 prior to treatment processes 30, 40, 50.
  • the applicant is interested particularly in copper-containing ores in which the copper is present in the ore fragments as a sulphide, such as chalcopyrite or chalcocite.
  • the applicant is also interested in nickel-containing ores in which the nickel is present in the ore fragments as a sulphide.
  • the applicant is also interested in uranium- containing ores.
  • the applicant is also interested in iron-containing ores.
  • the fractured fragments from the fracture station 20 are processed in either a heap leaching process 30 or one of two flotation processes 40, 50 in the described embodiment of the invention
  • the invention is not limited to processing fractured fragments in only one downstream process and the invention extends to embodiments in which the fractured fragments are separated into different streams that are processed in two or more than two process options.
  • the described embodiment includes processing fractured fragments in heap leaching and flotation processes
  • the present invention is not limited to these processes and extends to any processes that can extract valuable components form fractured fragments.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un processus de récupération de composants de valeur dans des matériaux extraits qui comprend les opérations consistant à fracturer des fragments de minerai par la technique d'électro-fracturation ou la technique de rayonnement électromagnétique dans une station de fracturation, traiter les fragments de minerai fracturés par un processus de traitement, au choix lixiviation en tas ou flottation, et récupérer les composants de valeur dans les fragments.
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WO2003102250A1 (fr) * 2002-05-31 2003-12-11 Technological Resources Pty Ltd Traitement de minerais par micro-ondes
WO2012016286A1 (fr) * 2010-08-04 2012-02-09 Technological Resources Pty. Limited Tri de matériau extrait de mines

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WO2003102250A1 (fr) * 2002-05-31 2003-12-11 Technological Resources Pty Ltd Traitement de minerais par micro-ondes
WO2012016286A1 (fr) * 2010-08-04 2012-02-09 Technological Resources Pty. Limited Tri de matériau extrait de mines

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