Introduction Of Gold Mining Process

1. Mining

Mining is the activity of mining economically valuable minerals or other substances from the ground, and the mining sites are all mineral deposits with concentrated minerals. Mining technology is basically divided into two forms: Surface mining and Underground mining. After completing exploration and feasibility studies, use machinery such as excavators, rigs, explosives, and trucks to extract ore from the surface or underground.

2. Crushing of mining process

The size of the ore mined out is very large. At present, the maximum size of ore mined in the open pit site is 1000mm~1500mm, and the maximum size of ore mined in the underground is 300mm~600mm. Such large ore cannot be directly separated because useful minerals and gangue minerals are in a close symbiotic state. In order to separate them from each other, the ore must first be crushed to a certain particle size, and then the next beneficiation operation is performed.

3. Transport of mining process

Usually use belt conveyor to feed lump ore into primary and secondary crusher and feed the crushed ore into Vibrating screen to get different sizes.

4. Screening of mining process

The screening process also plays different roles in gold mining process.

● Pre-screening: Before the ore enters a certain stage of crusher, pre-screen qualified products that have met the requirements. This process can not only prevent the over crushing of the ore, improve the productivity of the crusher, but also prevent the crusher from being blocked.
● Inspectional screening: After crushed, it should be screened to check the particle size of the crushed product, so that the unqualified excessively large ore particles are returned to the crushing operation to crush again. This process can give full play to the crushing capacity of the crusher.

5. Grinding of mining process

Grinding is the continuation of the crushing process, the purpose of which is to make most of the various useful mineral particles in the ore reach the monomer separation in order to carry out the classification and make the particle size meet the requirements of the classification operation. Normally, we support the principle of more crushing and less grinding for saving cost.

6. Classifying of mining process

Classification: In the medium, the material is divided into several granularity levels according to the different settling speed.

The purpose of classification and sieving is to divide the ore particles into different particle sizes, but their working principles and the particle size characteristics of products are different.
● Screening is strictly separated according to the size of the sieve;
● Classification is separated according to the different sedimentation speeds of the materials in the medium.

In grinding process, classification is usually used in order to separate the qualified materials in time, which can avoid over-grinding of the ore and improve the grinding efficiency. Commonly used equipment is a spiral classifier and a cyclones.

7. Gold Mining Process

The gold mining process mainly includes the following methods: cyanidation process, flotation process, gravity separation process and mercury amalgamation process. See more details on the four kind of gold mining process.

8. Water treatment of mining process

Dewatering of coarse-grained materials is relatively easy. Natural drainage is generally used, that is, it is excreted by the gravity of water itself. Dehydration of fine-grained materials generally involves three operations: concentration, filtration and drying. The recycled water can be used in a certain part of the beneficiation operation or discharged after being treated by a water treatment plant to meet the standards.

9. Tailings dry stacking

Concentrated hydrocyclone + high-efficiency deep cone thickener + high-efficiency multi-frequency dewatering screen makes the final concentration above 85% and realizes dry stacking. Then the tailing can be used for paving, construction and so on.