Chrome ore beneficiation challenges & opportunities – A review

Research work of Tevfik Agacayk et al. on low grade chromite ores of abandoned mines in Turkey (average grade 20–40% Cr 2 O 3) shows that best grades …Web

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A Process Mineralogical Evaluation of Chromite at the Nkomati …

A process mineralogical study based on three texturally and mineralogically different chromite-bearing ore types at the Nkomati nickel mine was undertaken, with focus on chromite. Chromite is a by-product of the Ni-Cu-Co-PGE ore at Nkomati Nickel mine. These being the PCMZ_MG (medium-grade Ni-Cu sulphide silicate ore with …Web

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Quantitative mineralogical characterization of chrome ore …

The tailing sample was beneficiated by hydrocyclone, tabling, wet high-intensity magnetic separation (WHIMS), and flotation in order to recover the chromite. A chromite concentrate with 45.29wt% Cr 2 O 3 and a Cr:Fe mass ratio of 1.85 can be produced from these low-grade chromite ore beneficiation plant rejects.Web

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Beneficiation of South African chromite tailings using …

The gravity separation process is the main beneficiation process used to recover chromite mineral. However, these conventional chromite processing techniques become …Web

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(PDF) Modeling and application of stirred mill for the coarse …

Grinding experiments were conducted in a laboratory-scale stirred mill on a low-grade PGE bearing chromite ore. High-Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) product of −1 mm was used as feed material to ...Web

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Rapid Analysis of Chromite and Chrome Ore

RAPID ANALYSIS OF GHROMITE AND CHROME ORE By JOSEPH I. DINNIN ABSTRACT Rapid methods for the determination of the major and of some minor constitu­ ents of chromite and chrome ore permit the complete analysis of a dozen or more samples to be performed in about 5 days with a precision comparable to that of the more …Web

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Processing of Low-Grade Chromite Ore for Ferroalloy

The low-grade siliceous chromite ore from Ghutrigaon, Odisha, India, containing ~ 16% Cr2O3, with Cr/Fe ratio of 1.97 and ~ 55% of SiO2, does not find any use in metallurgical industry and hence considered as waste. Mineralogical investigation indicates the presence of chromite and quartz as major minerals with minor fuchsite and …Web

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Direct dating of podiform Chromitite: U-Pb (Zircon, Rutile) and

Numerous steps of separation using density, magnetism, and electrostatics were performed to obtain heavy mineral concentrations (Xu et al., 2009, Aitchison et al., 2022). ... Although determining chromite ore-forming process is beyond the scope of this article, the occurrence of coeval magmatic zircons in podiform chromitite could be a clue …Web

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Efficient utilization of nickel rich Chromite Ore Processing Tailings

In this process, the low-grade chromite ore (containing 34.8% Cr 2 O 3) was reduced by carbon at 1200 °C to remove the iron-oxide phases by converting into Fe 3 O 4, followed by magnetic separation. The non-magnetic product was mixed and smelted with MgO to obtain magnesia-chromite refractory bricks (Bayat and Vapur, 2005; Sahu et al., …Web

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BENEFICIATION OF MAGNETITE RICH CHROMITE ORE WITH MAGNETIC SEPARATION

Chromite ore is geologically associated with gangue materials which have lower density compared to pure chromite (FeO.Cr2O3). Gravity separation techniques are very suitable for beneficiation of ...Web

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PRODUCTION OF CHROMITE CONCENTRATE …

A chromite concentrate with 45.29wt% Cr2O3 and a Cr:Fe mass ratio of 1.85 can be produced from these low-grade chromite ore beneficiation plant rejects. View Show abstractWeb

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Relationship between process mineralogical characterization and

Mineral and morphological characteristics of chromite ore strongly affect the separation efficiency while upgrading the low grade deposits. Usually chromite ore enrichment is carried out by using ...Web

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Mass balance and results for the magnetic separation

The low-grade siliceous chromite ore from Ghutrigaon, Odisha, India, containing ~ 16% Cr2O3, with Cr/Fe ratio of 1.97 and ~ 55% of SiO2, does not find any use in metallurgical industry and hence ...Web

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Carbothermic reduction roasting for processing of ferruginous chromite

Alteration of crystalline structure and magnetic property of these minerals enables separation of low-grade ore by using magnetic separation. It is found that low-grade ferruginous chromite ore can be upgraded by reduction roasting, and 61.2% Cr 2 O 3 was recovered with a chromium-to-iron ratio of 1.93 from a feed chromium-to-iron ratio of …Web

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Sufficient extraction of Cr from chromium ore

Chromium ore processing residue (COPR) is a hazardous waste generated during the production of chromate. Currently, approximately 10% of Cr 2 O 3 cannot be extracted after chromite sodium roasting and remains in COPR, wasting valuable Cr resources. In this study, Mg was selectively removed by using (NH 4) 2 SO 4 roasting in …Web

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Efficient utilization of nickel rich Chromite Ore Processing Tailings

In this process, the low-grade chromite ore (containing 34.8% Cr 2 O 3) was reduced by carbon at 1200 °C to remove the iron-oxide phases by converting into Fe 3 O 4, followed by magnetic separation. The non-magnetic product was mixed and smelted with MgO to obtain magnesia-chromite refractory bricks ( Bayat and Vapur, 2005 ; Sahu et …Web

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(PDF) Recovery of Chromite Values from Plant Tailings by Gravity

Chromite ore is geologically associated with gangue materials which have lower density compared to pure chromite (FeO.Cr2O3). Gravity separation techniques are very suitable for beneficiation of ...Web

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Processing of Ferruginous Chromite Ore by Dry High-Intensity …

Mineral and morphological characteristics of chromite ore strongly affect the separation efficiency while upgrading the low-grade deposits. Usually, chromite ore enrichment is carried out by using gravity separation due to high-concentration …Web

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Efficient reduction of Cr(VI) and recovery of Fe from chromite ore

Chromite ore processing residue (COPR) is a by-product generated after the leaching of sodium chromate by roasting chromite ore at 1200 °C. However, the residual 1130 ... The recovery of magnesioferrite from detoxified COPR by wet magnetic separation process realizes not only the recovery and reuse of valuable metal Fe in COPR but also …Web

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Improving the Quality of Ferruginous Chromite Concentrates Via …

The low chromium-to-iron ratio of chromite ores is an important issue in some chromite deposits. The value of the chromite ore is indeed dictated in the market by its iron, as well as its chromium content. In the present study, a chromite concentrate was reprocessed by gravity (spiral concentrator) and magnetic separation to enhance the …Web

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Extraction of Chromium from Chromite Ore

Chemical-grade chromite ore generally ranged from 40 to 46 pct Cr2O3 with a chromium-to-iron ratio of 1.5:1 to 2:1. Refractory-grade chromite ores contained a minimum of 20 pct Al2O3 and more than 60 pct Al2O3 plus Cr2O3. ... The combination of tabling and magnetic separation of a 2.5-pct-Cr2O3 ore from Auburn, Calif., resulted in …Web

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Improving the Quality of Ferruginous Chromite …

Conventionally, the chromite ore is beneficiated by using gravity concentration techniques. With the decrease in the particle size, separation of the chromite particles by gravity separation becomes …Web

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Chrome ore beneficiation challenges & opportunities – A review

Supply of world chromite (chrome ore) has come under severe pressure over the past year driven by strong demand for ferrochrome used in ferroalloy production for making stainless steel. ... This paper describes the results of a series of physical separation, and chromite bench flotation tests that have been carried out at acidic and …Web

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A study on the recovery of fine chromite from UG2 tailings

Pilanesberg Platinum Mines (PPM) is a primary platinum producer on the western limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, operating a typical mill-float-mill-float (MF2) flowsheet for recovery of PGMs from the UG2 ore. Chromite is usually recovered as a by-product from coarser UG2 tailings by gravity separation, involving spirals and/or ...Web

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PAPER OPEN ACCESS You may also like …

Chromite ore is the only commercial source of chromium in the metallurgical industries [1]. It occurs as a chromium spinel, a complex mineral containing chromium, iron, aluminium and magnesium in changeable proportions depending upon the deposit [2]. Chromite deposits can be estimated using geostatistics and geotechnical methods [3,4].Web

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Chromite

Although the intention of chromite mining is to remove chromite from the ore for the production of ferrochrome, the process is not efficient, so mining and smelting wastes including dust, wastewater, tailings, waste rock, and slag (produced during ferrochrome separation from the ore) still can contain different forms of Cr, including Cr(VI).Web

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Spiral (Concentrators)

3.1 Mining and beneficiation of chromite ore Run-of-mine (ROM) chromite (mined ore, prior to beneficiation) is usually beneficiated with relatively simple processes. The most commonly applied processes include primary and secondary crushing, screening, milling, dense media separation and gravity separation methods ( Murthy et al., 2011 ).Web

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Chromite ore beneficiation: prospects and challenges

Idiomorphic chromite is the only ore mineral appearing in economic quantities. The average content of the ore is 26% Cr 2 O 3 and the Cr/Fe ratio is 1.55. The Kemi chromium mine is an open-pit mine with a waste rock to ore ratio of 5.5:1. At Kemi, the ore from the mine contains 11% iron and 25.5% Cr 2 O 3.Web

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DRY MAGNETIC SEPARATION OF MAGNETITE ORES

This study, focused on the beneficiation of a Nigerian complex chromite ore sourced from Tunga-Kaduka, Anka Local Government of Zamfara State, Nigeria, assaying 45.85% …Web

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Top 3 Chrome Ore Processing Methods that Get Higher …

Chrome ore flotation Generally, when the gravity separation and magnetic separation fail, flotation offers an alternative technique to concentrate the fine-grained and ultra-fine-grained chromite rocks and fine-grained chromite tailings which require fine grinding for liberation. But grinding will produce a large amount of ore slime.Web

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Minerals | Free Full-Text | An Overview of Currently Applied

Alluvial, podiform, and stratiform deposit types are the commercially exploitable chromite ore sources [9,10,11]. Of these deposit types, stratiform-type chromite deposit ores are mainly exploited due to their large lateral continuity and regular layering . The value of chromite ore is however determined by the Cr 2 O 3 content and the Cr/Fe …Web

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Mineralogical Analysis of a Chrome Ore from South Africa

Since more than 97% of elements Fe and Cr are basically enriched in chromite, it is difficult to achieve the purpose of improving Cr grade and Cr 2 O 3 /FeO in this chrome ore by using traditional selection and magnetic separation methods. But, the chemical dressing methods aiming to remove iron should be a choice.Web

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Evaluation of Advanced Gravity and Magnetic Concentration …

the gravity separation methods are used to beneficiate particles <1 mm and usually the <0.1 mm size fractions are lost as tailings in this process [6]. During the beneficiation of chromite ore, about 50% of the total feed is discarded into tailings which therefore consist of huge quantity of chromite values in the ultra-fine sizes.Web

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(PDF) Flotation of chromite and serpentine

G. P. Gallios et al. have studied the behavior of the chromite ore and separation of chromite from serpentine by using flotation process. Experimental result indicates that sodium oleat as a ...Web

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(PDF) Magnetic separation studies on ferruginous …

The present study investigates the recovery of chromite from a low-grade ferruginous ore through the carbothermic magnetization …Web

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Influence of process parameters of dry high intensity magnetic

ABSTRACT Mineral and morphological characteristics of chromite ore strongly affect the separation efficiency while upgrading the low-grade deposits. Usually, chromite ore enrichment is carried out by … Expand. 31. Save. Optimizing the performance of the RER magnetic separator for upgrading silica sands. S. Ibrahim M. Farahat T. Boulos.Web

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