secondary recovery of columbite from tailing dump in nigerian jos mines field二次开采的铌铁矿尾矿在尼日利亚乔斯矿山领域转储.pdf

Journal of Minerals Materials Characterization Engineering, Vol. 11, No.6, pp.587-595, 2012 Printed in the USA. All rights reserved Secondary Recovery of Columbite from Tailing Dump in Nigerian Jos Mines Field 1 1 1 2 2 3 Ayeni*, F.A, Madugu, I. A, Sukop, P, Ibitoye, S. A, Adeleke, A. A, Abdulwahab, M 1National Metallurgical Development Centre (NMDC), P. M. B. 2116, Jos, Nigeria. 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria 3Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria *Corresponding Author: ayeflo@ ABSTRACT Millions of tons of tailing dump at Rayfield mine in Jos in North Central Plateau state of Nigeria have been found to contain large quantity of columbite. Initial attempts to recover columbite concentrates by local miners and mineral speculators from the columbite rich tailing dump failed due to the ineffectiv e processing route employed. Using cone and quartering sampling method, 0.5 kg of the columbite tailing was obtained for sieve and chemical analyses. 50 kg of 1mm fraction of the sample was subjected to a first stage magnetic conc entration in a three poles Dry High Intensity Magnetic Separator (DHMS) that separated the columbite in the third pole. The re-grind of the + 0.355 mm rougher c oncentrate fraction (containing interlocking columbite) to pass the sieve aperture was treated on the DHMS in the second stage. The rougher concentrate undersize and columbite pre-concentr