as if there are not enough unanswered CSD questions ... food for...

as if there are not enough unanswered CSD questions ...

food for thought

if CSD are planning to ship abroad to a fuming/roasting facility then why bother with sending ore ( post flotation if I remember rightly) to the USA ?

the present PFS flowsheet doesn't take into account the fluoride thing which would come online later. You'd surely need to separate the magnetite and flouride somehow yet this isn't mentioned

The original PFS details production of SnO2 not the SnO mentioned in the last missive - probably a typo but interesting non the less

http://www.researchgate.net/publica...netizing_Roasting-Magnetic_Separation_Process


the article summary proves that magnetic separation is plausible and as such a variety of concentrates could be processed differently - no point in roasting / fuming a larger volume of ore when most of the tin could be concentrated without the magnetite. Cheaper and less energy intensive perhaps

anyone remember how much they managed to debulk the raw ore by when the initial reverse silica flotation ?

any thoughts - apart from the usual question - WHEN?