No you don’t understand the system and what you are suggesting is what caused the problem in the first place the raw brine has many elements and the percentage of K2 SO4 that you want is less than 2% from memory and Sevo will correct me SO4 Raw Brine salt ratio was 30 -1 30 ton of nasties to one ton goodies you still with me ? the plant isn’t capable of separating that which is why the ponds are used you want this to 6-1 buy the time it is Rom feed hence the 2 500 000 ton plant feed they talk about you need to get the maximum amount of nasties out before it gets to the plant think of it as hosing of your dirty clothes to get most of the mud of before putting in the washing machine the washing machine can get the last bit of mud out but if you shovel mud into the machine it simply won’t work
the next trick is ensuring you haven’t washed the goodies out with the nasties which is what has happened here all the good stuff has fallen out in the salt floor and can’t be retrieved
so there are two problems that are both costly and expensive the 2 years of salt / rom feed is low grade not because the K2So4 has changed the ratio of nasties is to high the percentage is low effectively they just carted all the waste to the mill
the second problem is that at low feed rates the plant should still have been able to float of the salt especially with the addition of MOP this didn’t work either hope that helps you but there is no silver lining here
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