Characterization and separation of pyrite from Abu Tartur black shale.pdfVIP

nternationalJournalofMiningScienceandTechnology25(2015)565-571 一 A R T lC L E IN F O A B S T R A C T Articlehistory： Thisworkaimedforpyriteseparationfrom AbuTarturblackshaleasasourceofsulfurtobeanadded Received7Decem ber2014 economicvalueofAbuTarturarea．Theconsideredsamplesinthepresentworkwerecollectedfrom a Receivedinrevisedform21January2015 coredrilled inAbuTarturplateau representingthepyrite—rich blackshaleoftheU．Cretaceousage． Accepted 19February 2015 Samplecharacterizationwascarriedoutusingpetrographicmicroscope．XRD．DTAD／TC．c／sandxRF Availableonline21June2015 techniques．Clayminerals，silt—sizedquartz．calcite，andhematitewerethemainmineralsassociatingpyr- itef5_34％1．Liberationbehaviorofthesamplewasabout80％below 5I．tm． Keywords： Sample processing wasachieved through one—day soaking ofllowed by classification using 1inch AbuTa~urplateau Mozleyhydro—cyclonewhereabout35．5％by weightwenttounderflow and 64．5％wenttooverflow． Blackshale Pyrite Theunderflow productwassubjectedtoanadvancedgravityseparationprocessusingSB一40Falcon FalconCOncentrat0r ConcentratorthroughaCCDstatistica1designpreparedbyDesign—Expert6．0softwareproposedtoopti- mizetheseparationprocessthroughastudyofrtheeffectsofrfequency(Hz)andwaterpressure(Psi)on bothassayandrecoveryofthesulfur—richheavyrfaction． Aheavy concentrateweighed10．90％withinorganicsulufrcontentreached11．37％f21．24％pyrite)with