A new heterotrophic strain, named Providencia sp. JAT-1, was isolated and used in bioleaching of low-grade complex copper ore. The strain uses sodium citrate as a carbon source and urea as a nitrogen source to produce ammonia. The optimal growth condition of the strain is 30 ̋C, initial pH 8, sodium citrate 10 g/L and urea 20 g/L, under which the cell density and ammonia concentration in the me...

The present investigation deals with the recovery of iron values from the screw classifier overflow slimes from an iron ore washing plant by means of reverse cationic flotation as an alternate to direct anionic flotation. Selectivity index, an indicator of separation efficiency, was chosen as the response parameter for optimizing the quantity and evaluating a series of generically same but chem...

In the present study, characterization and beneficiation tests were performed on an iron ore sample to evaluation of separation efficiency (SE) different methods. Results showed that decrease in feed size fraction increases SE irrespective method. It was determined from liberation analyses increase values ​​at finer fractions is related with higher liberation. Calculated revealed operational pa...

As a result of the depletion high-grade manganese reserves, it has become necessary to consider exploitation low-grade ores. The main problem ore is low Mn/Fe ratio, which makes unfit for production ferroalloys. In this work, selective reduction technique was used smelting low-manganese in presence coke and fluxing material an electric submerged arc furnace obtain rich slag pig iron. product bl...