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Record 1 2006-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
DEF

Enriched ore after removal of waste in beneficiation mill.

CONT

Ore dressing. Treatment of ores to concentrate their valuable constituents (minerals) into products (concentrate) of smaller bulk, and simultaneously to collect the worthless material (gangue) into discardable waste (tailing).

CONT

Mines commonly possess mineral dressing plants in which the raw ore is milled before the separation of the ore minerals from the gangue minerals by various processes, which provide ore concentrates, and tailings which are made up of gangue.

CONT

... the Eldorado mine at Port Radium produced, from 1938 to 1960, about 6000 t of uranium metal in concentrates ... from ores grading between 0.3 and 0.6% U.

PHR

Mineral concentrate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
DEF

Minerai concentré, par préparation physique ou chimique, à teneur marchande.

CONT

La préparation du minerai comprend les opérations par lesquelles, à partir d'un minerai et à travers des procédés physiques ou chimico-physiques, on extrait plusieurs produits contenant les espèces minéralogiques utiles (concentré de minerai) et on élimine les espèces inutiles ou nuisibles (gangue stérile).

CONT

[...] le minerai enrichi est concassé, broyé, lavé, traité [...] Les concentrés obtenus sont ensuite fondus pour donner finalement le métal pur.

CONT

Le concentré d'uranium, obtenu par traitement chimique contient environ 60 à 70 % d'uranium.

PHR

Concentré de minéraux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Preparación de los productos mineros
  • Explotación de minerales (Metalurgia)
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