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Metal recovery from old tailings

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The authors study potential utilization of oil tailings of a lead-zinc processing plant. Conversion of sulfides into marketable selective concentrates is carried out in two stages: sulfide product is extracted from tailings, first, and processed, second, jointly with current ore material, using the accepted technology, or separately, by jet flotation. Sulfides are extracted from tailings using a channel-type hydroseparator. A feature of flotation scheme is stream counterflow of feed (in both cycles) and rough concentrate. Conditions and composition are developed for manufacturing a quality product from non-metal tailings: lime-sand bricks, glass containers, fiberglass and marbled glass.

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  1. North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, State Technological University, ul. Nikolaeva 44, Vladikavkaz, 362021, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

    S. I. Evdokimov & V. S. Evdokimov

  2. GEOS Research and Manufacturing LLC, ul. Levanevskogo 253, Vladikavkaz, 362035, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

    V. S. Evdokimov

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Original Russian Text © S.I. Evdokimov, V.S. Evdokimov, published in Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, 2014, No. 4, pp. 172–182.

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Evdokimov, S.I., Evdokimov, V.S. Metal recovery from old tailings. J Min Sci 50, 800–808 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062739114040206

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