SRC’s Mineral Processing team provides leading‐edge research, development and demonstration services for a variety of commodities and mineral processing technologies. We help maximize your resource and improve productivity at every stage of the mining cycle, from exploration to closure.
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Our team of engineers and scientists can customize testing and design to meet the unique needs of mining companies in uranium, potash, lithium, base metals, precious metals, rare earth elements and industrial minerals.
Service Capabilities
- Testing – bench, pilot and field
- Evaluation – mineralogy, process and equipment
- Design
- Optimization and troubleshooting
- Product manufacture
Technology Areas
- New Technologies
Dynamic gas evolution (hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide) during leaching
In situ recovery, particularly for potash and uranium applications
Novel lithium and rare earth recovery technologies
Lithium battery metals recycling
- Comminution and Milling
Standard bond work index test
SAG Design test for semi-autogenous mill design
Attrition scrubbing, desliming, screening and cyclone testing
Large-scale crushing/Grinding and sample preparation
- Beneficiation
Gravity separation (shaking tables, Knelson concentrator, heavy liquid separation)
Magnetic separation (dry, wet, high intensity, low intensity)
Electrostatic separation (free-fall and drum)
Flotation (mechanical flotation, hydroflotation, column flotation, pneumatic flotation)
- Hydrometallurgical Processes at Bench or Pilot-Scale
Leaching (acid leaching, alkaline leaching, cyanidation – agitated and column, hot leaching, cold leaching)
Crystallization, evaporation, precipitation, simulated solar pond evaporation
Solvent extraction
Ion exchange
Nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membrane filtration tests
Paste backfilling tests
Effluent treatment
Settling (flocculant screening, static settling, dynamic settling, pilot thickening)
Solids/Liquid separation (vacuum filtration and pressure filtration, lab and pilot filter press and centrifuge)
- Miscellaneous
Anti-caking test for potash
Related Areas of Expertise
Our Mineral Processing team also works with other SRC laboratories and facilities to offer clients an expanded range of services.
- Mineralogy Studies from SRC’s Advanced Microanalysis Centre™
- Sample analyses from SRC Geoanalytical Laboratories and SRC Environmental Analytical Laboratories
- Dense Media Separation (DMS) and Sensor-based Sorting testing from SRC’s Minerals Liberation Sorting Centre
- Viscosity measurements MBI clay analysis for slurries from SRC’s Pipe Flow Technology Centre™
