Study on Quality Improvement of Sulphur Concentrate Products of a Copper-Sulphur Mine
In order to improve the quality of sulfur concentrate and meet the sales requirements in a copper-sulfur mine,aiming at the problem of low sulfur grade of sulfur concentrate,the flotation concen-tration,pH value of flotation slurry and activation and conditioning slurry of underground acidic wastewa-ter are tested,and the comparative test of three different upgrading processes is carried out.The test re-sults show that the underground acidic water with pH value of about 2.6 is used to activate the slurry,and the process flow of sulfur concentrate stage separation+concentrate tail return in order is adopted to obtain sulfur concentrate 1 with sulfur grade of 48.57%,iron grade of 43.31%and sulfur recovery rate of 68.78%,sulfur concentrate 2 with sulfur grade of 44.64%,iron grade of 43.01%and sulfur recovery rate of 22.68%.After the combination of the two kinds of sulfur concentrates,a high-quality sulfur concentrate with sulfur grade of 47.53%,iron grade of 43.23%and sulfur recovery rate of 91.46%can be obtained.The sulfur+iron grade is greater than 90.00%,which greatly reduces the cost of high-alkali sulfur concentrate slurry preparation agent on site.At the same time,it solves the discharge problem of environmental protection of underground acidic wastewater,and has remarkable economic and environmental benefits.