Brief introduction of Fluorite/Fluorspare ore
Fluorspar, also known as fluorite, is an essential mineral for metallurgy, chemical, glass, ceramic industry.The main component of fluorite is calcium fluoride.Fluorite is the only mineral for which significant quantities of the important element fluorine can be obtained.
Fluorite is also used as a flux in the manufacture of steel and other metals to eliminate impurities. Raw fluorspar ores normally are associated with gangues like quartz and calcite, which make it impossible to use directly for industrial production. Fluorspar beneficiation process is required.
Fluorite/Fluorspar beneficiation Process
There are three methods in total. Before modern beneficiation plant is utilized, original method is manual hand-pick. Fluorspar lumps are picked up from gangues by the difference in color and shape. This method is low in efficiency and can’t produce in large scale, but it is still a good roughing process for big fluorspar lumps.
The second simple and effective method is gravity concentration, which is a separation process based on the difference in density between valuable minerals and gangues. Although the density difference is not big between fluorspar and gangue, it is no longer a problem for modern gravity concentration equipment. Gravity concentration is becoming popular in fluorspar beneficiation.
The third method is flotation process. This method has disadvantages of big investment, high production cost, pollution to environment, but it is the only way to produce high grade fluorspar concentrate.
How to choose the right fluorspar beneficiation process
Overview of fluorite beneficiation:
1.For coarse-grained fluorite , the beneficiation process usually includes manual beneficiation and gravity beneficiation.
2.For fluorite with uneven particle size, the beneficiation process includes gravity beneficiation and flotation beneficiation.
3.For fluorite with poor quality and extremely fine fluorite particles, flotation is the only way for beneficiation and purification.
Different ore should adopt different beneficiation process.Here, we introduce one of the most comprehensive manual beneficiation-gravity beneficiation-flotation combined beneficiation methods!
Fluorite hand-sort plant
Fluorspar beneficiation process Flochart
For fluorspar beneficiation, the most suitable process is to use the above methods in combination. Hand pick——Gravity concentration——Flotation.
Raw ore is fed onto belt conveyor after primary crushing and washing. Labors pick up big lumps, which are used for metallurgy purpose. Middlings are sent to secondary crushing. Crushed fluorspar is screened into different fractions for gravity concentration. Concentration from gravity separation by jigging process can be used for metallurgy industry. Tailings from gravity separation are enriched by flotation process to get high grade concentrate powders, which is used for chemical industry. This combined process is suitable for most of the fluorspar deposits.
Fluorite/Fluorspar beneficiation process plant
1.For manual pickup, the equipment is horizontal belt conveyor with adjustable speed. Labors sort lumps from conveyor.
2.Gravity concentration equipment includes jig, crusher, sand washer, vibration screen, dewatering screen, etc. The equipment is selected according to the embedded size and slime content.
FLuorite beneficiation plant in Mongolia
3.Flotation equipment includes crusher, ball mill, classifier, flotation machine, thickener, filter press, etc.
Fluorite flotation plant in Inner Mongolia
Summary of fluorite/fluorspar beneficiaiton process
The simplest and most effective beneficiation method is gravity separation. It is major process to get fluorspar concentrate for metallurgy industry. Compared with flotation process, gravity concentration is becoming popular. The process is crushing, screening, jigging, dewatering. Fluorspar ore is big, double crushing process is necessary before screening. Fluorspar is fragile, jaw crusher is good enough for it. Crushed ore is classified into 0-8mm, 8-30mm, 30-50mm fractions by vibration screen. Different jigs are used for different fractions. Concentration and tailings from jigging separation contains huge water, linear vibration screen is used for dewatering process.
Manufacturer of fluorite beneficiation plant
Gongyi Forui Machinery Factory is the leading manufacturer of fluorite beneficiation plant in China.we have many years' experience in fluorite process. we design and build the plant in our own workshop, to ensure the quality and deliver time. We will send our experienced engineer to supply techincial service in site to ensure the beneficiation effect.
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