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in the article it will be noted that the extraction from the that some
carbonate ores is considerably lower than that from the probable
the bin along the feeder slot it improbable
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sulphides
sulp hides from the flow will be noted the carbon- saving in power is affected along with the saving in
ates do not go to flotation much of the silver in these ores this arrangement coarse and
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the large number of feeder openings openingss is such
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being in the form 0of chlorides and so far no commercial s I1
method has been found for floating these carbonate ores fine ore bins and the arrangement of these
emptied with very little and
band labor
that the bins can be ad 01 a
of
some of the flow sheet features explained the decision to use a gyratory crusher instead
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desired con
the flow sheet accompanying this article shows the blake was made upon the basis off certain desired was found
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eions which were laid down to begin with an
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various machines and their part in the beneficiation of the
that the gyratory gave
g ave the greater capacity of a given have side discharge the balance will discharge through the
product than the blake which could crush down to the hutch they will be in groups of two handling the same
small size to which it was desired to go in this first crushi- product except that there will be a group of four treating
ng operation the finest jig feed from the cone shown on flow sheet
A merrick conveyor is attached to the belt the speeds strokes and jig screen sizes as used in the old
which conveys the ore from the fine ore bins to the first plant will be closely followed which were as follows
sizing screen the weight is recorded upon a dial similar
no R P M stroke screen
to a gas meter from which it is entered upon the records at
stated intervals part of the belt conveyor two or three
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mechanism a small flat belt driven from the above asin mill is sectionalized horizontally
contact with rollers placed in the periphery of a disc
one feature of park city practice deserves comment
and that is the use of jig tailing bins which provide storage
and control of feed to the re grinding machines it might
be noted here that this mill is sectionalized horizontally
that is there is a coarse crushing unit with bins following
a roll and jig section with bins following and a regrind
and table section with auxiliary flotation for part of the
ores in a mill of this size there would be little advantage
of two or more sections vertically sectionalized the
advantage of being able to shut down to half capacity
would be offset by the greater number of concentrating
tables and other units required to give the treatment on
closely sized products with the bin arrangement it is
possible to operate any horizontal section during tempor-
ary shutdown of other sections at full capacity and at max-
imum efficiency it is expected that the roll and jig section
will be augmented by an additional set of rolls in parallel
with the other set only one to be used at a time
the drag classifier or replaces the old pad-
eln forced steel ore
reinforced coarse fine and jig tuning
tailing bins
binm also dle wheel dewater ers which were satisfactory in the older
skeleton of
and smaller mill this drag is of the familiar type with
when there is no load to deflect the scale beam the belt
on these rollers does not move the disc but as soon as load
comes to deflect the scale beam the disc is deflected and
the movement of the belt on the rollers rotates the disc and
the amount of rotation translated into tons is what the
disc records on the dial
the general practice of the larger milling plants ore dins before pouring concrete
in
following the rolls with their 7 16 in screen and just
before jigging the ore is sampled for the head sample this intervals to belt it will have larger
is the logical place for sampling when the material is at its angle iron bolted at and overflow than
capacity both in de watered jig tailings
smallest size before any separations of mineral from gangue
are made for the smallest reliable sample can be taken at the older machine
classifiers are of the familiar spitz kasten
thiss point the hydraulic
hydraulic discharge boxes developed by
the screen which had been standard at park type with special length of pipe from
the silver king operators A short
city
ity for years have been discarded in favor of the in inclined box carries at its lower end the
the bottom of the wood
vibratory screens which have become popular in the last woodd spigot surrounding it is a cast iron box into
lew years the hummer type was adopted in which the
few usual wo introduced this water goes
which the hydraulic water is
reen cloth is vibrated back and forth by means of an
screen neck of the classifier through a small nozzle
alternating current magnet into the pipe or an angle of
placed tangentially and pointed upward
upwards s at
the jigs are of the I1 hartz
bartz type and will be built along t he effect of the swirl is very evident
the lines of the jigs formerly used which were satisfactory about 15 degrees above it is through this rising
will on the surface of the water
n jigs are to
have two compartments the first pair
swirl that the coarser particles fall the screen analyses be made in this department in only treating those slimes
of products from a six compartment classifier used in the from sulphide ore which cannot easily be caught upon the
test work in the old mill indicate the good character of tables A callow rougher cell cellaa callow cleaner cell with
its work the auxiliary apparatus for thickening and circulating fi-
ltering and loading the concentrate and pilot table to ind-
SCREEN ANALYSIS OF classifier PRODUCTS
icate the character of the work being done together with a
spigot no 1 2 3 4 5 6
small grinding mill to reduce the plus 60 mesh table
plus 20 mesh 45 10 01
plus
b to flotation sizes these constitute the contemplated
60 mesh 65 08 01
plus mesh 979 64
plus mesh 33 flotation unit it will not be installed until the balance
minus mesh 15 40 90 of the mill is in operation
callow gravelin
traveling belt screens which were found satis- the distribution of the recoveries in the mill is interest-
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factory in the old mill will be used with the closed circuit anol the following
ing t being based upon the test test results ob-
in connection with the re grinding mills they give efficient tained in the old mill i out of tons of mill feed of su-
separation of the oversize from the undersize in the sizes lphide ores 56 tons plus 20 minus 7 16 in goes to the jigs
and capacities required in these operations from which tons of concentrates are produced leav
into tons to go into the jig tail bins to be reground 35
table work and fine grinding tons of minus 20 plus go to the sand jigs most of which
goes on to the classifiers after removing concentrates and
about the only feature in connection with the table 93 tons of coarse material which is added to the feed of
work which mi might
6 ht call for comment is the elimination of the re 6grinding mills the 9 tons of minus called
classifiers between groups of tables for division of the first 1
slime is augmented by 58 tons of slime from the fine
table 6 into sizes for now the grindingb mills making a total of tons of slime to be
from two tables which have the same feed go to a third treated the table concentrates amount to 50 tons and
table which retreats these platoo and wilfleyy
plat the slime concentrates to 35 tons the total concentrates
tables are used the flow sheet shows a small group of tons per
tables the use for which i s not exactly determined but
which will be used either with those grouped from a given milling operations analyzed
spigot
b or for other purposes as the operator finds advantag- in connection with the 1920 annual report of the silver
eous the pilot table shown has no function as a gravity king coalition mines company the following rather inter-
concentrator other than to indicate or rough assay the esting6 figures on milling costs are taken from the report of
character of the work on the flotation machines it is not forrest mathez superintendent to the general manager
forrest
expected to make a saving
two types of fine grinding machines have been in- MILT OPERATING COSTS
stalled for preparing the jig tailings for treatment upon
the tables and flotation apparatus the company expects tons tons cone total cost
milled produced cost per ton
to make comparative tests upon theme these two machines cost
per ton of ore ground and character of the product slime la 5
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etc being the most important considerations on ac- MILL RECOVERY TONS MILLED
count of the competitive nature of these tests it is not de-
sirable to discuss the machines their similarities and dif- tons milled
m billed CONTENTS I1 tons I11 CONTENTS
oz ag lbs ab conces oz ag lbs
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feren ces etc at this time but to leave that for future pub-
ferences sulphide 1
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lication
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undersize in the oversize of the circulating feed of the which was afterward marketed this had the effect of in
toughness or hardness of the ore and the capacity at max- creasing the extraction upon the sulphide ore to about 81
imum efficiency of the combined mill and auxiliaries upon
icum per cent
those particular ores it should be further noted in connection with the above
in connection with the fine grinding machines space figures that the daily run of the old mill was about 70 tons
has been provided for additional machines as well as ad- per day which in a mill capable of handling tons per
dit
ditional
ional sizing or classifying apparatus in the event of fu- day has the effect of increasing the cost per ton by putting
ture developments either in the mine or in the art of con- overheads upon a much smaller tonnage in addition there
centration or flotation p P articularly making it advantageous was the additional expense involved in starting up clean-
to completely or partially slime the ore it seems hardly ing tip
up etc all of which kept costs up shortage of na ine
mine
possible that any scheme of fine grinding with flotation is millea
and mill labor was the reason for the small tonnage milled
going to do better work upon the coarse grains of mineral this new mill will have about h p of motors con-
which are now saved in jigs in any event the increased nected of which the four large motors on the rolls crusher
and fine grinding mills are of the wound motor type for toa
use of fine grinding machines all through the mining in-
dustry may show a way whereby better results may be ob- ease in starting without the use of friction clutches on the
tained through additional grinding basis that a single fine grinding mill will be in operation at
a time and allowing for margins of safety on some of the
flotation plant simple distribution of recoveries motors the power requirement appears to be about one halt half
the flotation plant will be comparatively simple as it horse power per daily ton this is small compared with
horsepower
is expected that not over 10 per centon
cent of the extraction will some mills but it should be noted that those high power
mills do very fine bgrinding whereas in this plant there is
tl necessary
little fine grinding
the hardin
tables mine smelter supply company hummer
screens S tyler company diester plato
plat o tables
stimson equipment co callow screens galigher ma
chinery company callow flotation cells general engi-
neering company steel building J J burke co eng-
ineers and the kansas city structural steel company
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concrete ore bins designed by J J burke co and
erected b y company