Effect of wash water on the mineral size recovery curves in a spiral ...
The spiral used for the tests is a 7 turn WW6E from Roche Mining. The setup used for the experiments is shown in Fig. feed material is a ground ore from the Mount Wright ArcelorMittal mine in Quebec (Hyma and Meech, 1989).The ore is mixed with water and the slurry is loaded into pump box A (see Fig. 1).The slurry is pumped to a distributor at the top of the spiral.