Several Basical Principles of Ore Beneficiation Site Selection

1. Generally speaking, the ore beneficiation site should be close to mine. But it also can be close to factory if it is close to mine or the water, electricity and energy supply is limited. The concentrate store of ore treatment plant can be combined with the user’s storage bin to save investment. In order to avoid concentrate loss during transportation or the enterprise has excessive heat to dry products, the ore beneficiation plant also can be build near factory. If the mining mineral is dispersed, we can build the ore beneficiation plant in a reasonable place between mine and factory to achieve the least comprehensive transportation fee.

2. The landform of ore beneficiation site should be suitable for ore beneficiation process as much as possible. The best situation is that the ore pulp can achieve automatic flow, then half-automatic flow, then pressurization. If there is no suitable landform, we should consider its water discharging. The ore beneficiation plant with half-automatic flowing should be between the above two situations in slope. No matter to build factory on slopes or on the ground, we should save land as much as possible, especially the fertile field.

3. The tailings store should adopt the low valleys or depressions, making the least construction work of engineering project at the same time of achieve biggest volume capacity. The tailings site should be close to ore beneficiation site to save transportation fees. We also should avoid tailings pollution to environment, river, agriculture and living area.