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Sizing or Screening of known weight of the sample material by passing successively through
the sieve to determine the percentage weight in each size fraction using a laboratory sieve
shaker.
BELOW SHOWS THE SCREENING OPERATION PROCEDURE FOR DRY SUB SIEVE ANALYSIS
AT LUMWANA MINE
FULL SCREEN ANALYSIS FOR SIZE DISTRIBUTION FOR ROUGHER FEED TRAIN 1 & 2 - 7 OCTOBER 2015
Train 1
Screen size (µ) 1000 850 500 400 300 250 180 150 125 75 45
-45 Total
Mass retained (g) 0.0 0.0 120.8 77.7 148.4 90.6 155.9 70.8 75.9
111.5 51.2 97.2 1000.00
Retained (%) 0.00 0.00 12.08 7.77 14.84 9.06 15.59 7.08 7.59 11.15
5.12 9.72 100.00
Cumm. Passing (%) 100.00 100.00 87.92 80.15 65.31 56.25 40.66 33.58 25.99
14.84 9.72
Train 2
Screen size (µ) 1000 850 500 400 300 250 180 150 125 75 45
-45 Total
Mass retained (g) 0.0 0.0 124.1 85.4 150.4 103.5 171.5 67.5 93.4
103.1 43.6 68.5 1011.00
Retained (%) 0.00 0.00 12.27 8.45 14.88 10.24 16.96 6.68 9.24 10.20
4.31 6.78 100.00
Cumm. Passing (%) 100.00 100.00 87.73 79.28 64.40 54.16 37.20 30.52 21.29
11.09 6.7
Microns
400
300
100
6.74
14.69
98.99
P80
Microns
400
300
100
6.72
15.60
104.85
P80
The feed rate at the sample was taken to be 3621tph against target of 3500tph which read to the
difference of 121tph above the target .And for the cyclone pressure 129kpa was on both clusters
which was 9kpa above the target .Thereafter 9 cyclones were operating on cluster 1 and 8 cyclone
on cluster 2,the slurry %solids was 37% on cluster 1 and 36% on cluster 2 against target of range 35-
38%.lastly the percentage passing (P80) was recorded to be 399microns for cluster 1 and 405microns
for cluster 2 which were both above the 350micron standard .
From the screen analysis results shown above it can be concluded that the grind size for the slurry
sample taken at that particular time was very coarse at 399 and 405 micron for cluster 1 and 2
respectively .Despite the parameters being with acceptable range the ie .feed rate ,cyclone
pressure ,operating cyclones ,%solid slurry and the P80 .
However the coarse grind could only be attributed to the parameters from operations prior to the
cyclone classification these could have been.
-ore hardness
-Mill ball charge level-mill weight
-Mill power draw