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If flotation or leaching misses it, Falcon can catch it! Process Plant and Process Engineering Falcon has done extensive work on the recovery of values from old tailing deposits and is currently completing an extensive test campaign for scavenging of fresh tailings from an existing, very large metallurgical plant. The Falcon continuous technology does not consider whether a particle is liberated or not, as it differentiates according to even relatively small difference in specific gravity. This makes these fully continuous units excellent as 'Policemen' on flotation tailings where the feed to the flotation circuit may have high mineralogical variations and the circuit is not reactive enough to maximize flotation recovery. The Falcon unit is installed, as done currently on a number of processing plants around the world, to scavenge the tails and to either feed them back into the flotation feed to increase the chances of floating the slow floating species or it is reground and floated. A similar flowsheet is adopted for the scavenging of leach tailings. Scavenging of tailings can be done on any processing plant where there is a modest density difference between the target mineral/metal and the host gangue. Metal recovery from tailings is added directly to the bottom line and could increase the profitability of your mine. Contact Falcon
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FINE mineral streams like flotation, leach or other tailings are often discarded with the perception that the particles are too FINE to be recovered by gravity. Yes, this would be true for low G-force technologies that have been around for many years, but the use of high G-forces has made this traditionally impossible task possible.
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