Ore processing – Waihi Gold
Following grinding in the ball mill, the material is returned via the sump (8) to the secondary hydrocyclone (9) for resizing. The trash screen (10) removes wood from the old mine workings that may have found its way into the processing circuit. The slurry that remains after this process has a very fine particle size. Typically, 80% of the ore particles are less than 70 microns in size (about ...