Beneficiation

20/12/2022

Beneficiation

In the mining industry or extractive metallurgy, beneficiation is any process which removes the gangue minerals from ore to produce a higher grade product, and a waste stream^[1]. The most common mineral beneficiation processes include: sample preparation, comminution, size classification, and concentration^[2].

[1] LibreTexts Chemistry – Beneficiation

[2] https://labs.seprosystems.com/mineral-beneficiation/#:~:text=Mineral%20beneficiation%20is%20a%20process,prior%20to%20downstream%20purification%20processes.