Unit 1 Introduction and scope of Mineral processing

8 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
• Terminology in mineral processing
• Economics of ore processing

Unit 2 Liberation, Comminution, Sizing and classification

10 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

10 lecture hours

• Gravity concentration methods
• Heavy media separation
• Separation in vertical and streaming currents
• Dewatering techniques
• Filtration and Drying

Unit 4 Froth flotation

6 lecture hours

• Physico-Chemical principles
• reagents like collectors
• modifiers and frothers
• Process variables in floatation
• Study of flow sheet for flotation of sulphide ores

Unit 5 Magnetic and Electrostatic separation

4 lecture hours

• wet and dry separators
• High tension separation
• Motion of solid in fluid
• Strokes and Newton's law, Free and hindered settling
• Batch and continuous settling chambers

Unit 6 Simplified beneficiation Flow Sheets of coal and ores of metals

• Beneficiation flow sheets of coal and simple ores of copper
• Iron and with 04 Subject Code: 3132103 w.e.f