Mineral Processing: Particle Size and Gravimetric Separation

Optimize the valorization of your ores through mechanical separation and beneficiation processes: mechanical ore beneficiation.

    • Accurately characterize your ores with variable physico-chemical properties
    • Verify the feasibility and limits of achievable ore concentration
    • Identify the most suitable equipment for ore preparation and beneficiation
    • Reduce industrial risks by validating your choices at small scale before deployment
    • Implement a mechanical beneficiation process that leverages the specific properties of your ores (hardness, grindability, density, magnetic susceptibility)
    • Benefit from complete characterization (mineralogical, particle size, chemical) prior to any testing
    • Apply processes adapted to each stage: mechanical preparation, particle size separation, physical beneficiation, and solid/liquid separation
    • Rapidly move from laboratory phase to pilot plant, designed and scaled by CIME, with integrated automation and supervisory control
    • Take advantage of flexibility that allows pilots to be modified or improved as the tested process evolves
    • Simplify your project management with a single point of contact from laboratory work through to commissioning
    Volorization of an ore
    Environmentally friendly process
    • Complete prototype development: from initial sizing to assembly and commissioning on your site or ours (3D drawings, equipment sizing, instrumentation selection, assembly, shipment, training)
    • Flexibility: fast adaptation and modification of pilots to optimize the tested process
    • Prototyping capacity: trials from a few liters up to several m³
    • Wide range of mastered processes: oxidation, leaching, liquid/liquid separation, dissolution (acid, lime), effluent solidification, cementation
    • Available equipment: crushing, grinding, screening, sieving, jigs, spirals, shaking tables, Knelson concentrators, flotation cells, belt filters, filter presses, cyclones
    • Containerized modules (skids) for on-site testing
    • Dedicated infrastructure: several halls available to accommodate prototypes and pilots
    • Safe management of solid and liquid waste, including radiologically marked material, from testing phase through pilot dismantling
    • Customized equipment manufacturing to meet client needs (new analytical techniques and new pilot units)
    • Pilot construction and assembly in CIME’s workshops: design office, mechanical and sheet-metal workshops, electrical, instrumentation

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