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About The Event
Frequent and accurate monitoring of mineralogy, elemental composition, particle size and shape are essential to make the extraction and separation of base metals such as copper, nickel, zinc or lead profitable. Decreasing ore grades and heterogenous ore bodies require permanent information about the composition to predict and optimize recovery rates. This year's ALTA nicely dovetails 2 themes of metals recovery and processing into useful materials like batteries. Malvern Panalytical is proud to unveil new and unique solutions that support both industries. Malvern Panalytical's mining analytical solutions enable exploration, monitoring in the field, on conveyor belts, in laboratories as well as completely automated environments. Our worldwide expertise to analyze solids, powders, liquids, liquors and slurries allow fast counteractions to respond adequately on changing conditions during flotation, leaching or refining processes. With the advanced adoption of electric vehicles, battery manufacturing becomes critical. Our analytical solutions support you from your battery raw materials analysis to the production and QC of your battery pack or coin-cell.
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Mining talk by Dr Uwe Konig
Mon, 27 May
NICKEL LATERITES — GRADE DEFINITION AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION BY MINERALOGICAL MONITORING USING X‐RAY DIFFRACTION XRD
Nickel laterite production is on the rise, surpassing conventional sulfide deposits, to ensure global supply in the future. Nickel laterite ore is used to produce nickel metal, predominantly to manufacture stainless steel as well as nickel sulfate, a key ingredient in the batteries that drive electric vehicles. The efficiency of mining and processing nickel laterites is defined by their mineralogical composition.
Typical profiles of nickel laterites are divided into a saprolite and a laterite horizon. Nickel is mainly concentrated and hosted in a variety of secondary oxides, hydrous Mg silicates and clay minerals like smectite or lizardite in the saprolite horizon, whereas the laterite horizon can host cobalt that can be extracted as a side product.
A case study from both saprolite and laterite horizons was performed using X‐ray diffraction (XRD) in combination with statistical methods such as cluster analysis. Besides the identification of the different mineral phases, the quantitative composition of the samples was also determined with the Rietveld method. Data clustering of the samples was tested and allows a fast and easy separation of the different lithologies and ore grades.
Mineralogy also plays a key role during further processing of nickel laterites to nickel metal. XRD was used to monitor the mineralogy of calcine, matte and slag. The value of mineralogical monitoring for grade definition, ore sorting, and processing will be explained in the presentation.
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