Unit 1 Introduction and Scope of Mineral processing

4 lecture hours

• Introduction and scope of mineral processing in extractive metallurgy
• Mineral resources in India and worldwide for basic metals like Iron
• Physical and chemical characteristics of industrial minerals

Unit 2 Liberation, Comminution, Sizing and Classification

5 lecture hours

• Liberation and its significance
• Comminution and sizing
• Laws of Comminution
• Crushing and Grinding- types and equipment
• Sorting and hand-picking
• Laboratory and industrial screening equipment
• screen efficiency
• Classifier- mechanical and hydraulic
• sizing and sorting classifiers

Unit 3 Minerals Separation Processes

7 lecture hours

• Gravity concentration methods
• Heavy media separation (Dense Media Separation)
• Separation in vertical and streaming currents
• Dewatering techniques
• Filtration and Drying
• Froth flotation: Physico-Chemical principles
• reagents like collectors
• modifiers and frothers
• Process variables in floatation
• Study of flow sheet for flotation of sulfide ores
• Magnetic and Electrostatic separation: principle
• wet and dry separators

Unit 4 Simplified beneficiation Flow Sheets

• Beneficiation flow sheets of copper
• Iron with reference to Indian Deposits 03 10

Unit 5 Introduction to Extractive Metallurgy

5 lecture hours

• Advantages and limitations of Different extraction Processes
• Comparison in Pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy
• Pyrometallurgy: Drying
• Converting, and Refining

Unit 6 Hydrometallurgy

4 lecture hours

• Leaching techniques and reagents
• Role of oxygen in leaching
• Pressure leaching and bacterial leaching
• Solvent Extraction
• Ion Exchange
• Electrometallurgy: Electrowinning and Electrorefining of metals