A native element, antimony metal is extracted primarily from stibnite, which contains 72 percent antimony and 28 percent sulfur. Antimony ore proportion is heavy than matrix , normally gravity separation is more efficient , its efficiency , economic , environment protection and concentrate the lower grade ore , after gravity use flotation for extraction .
Introduction
Generally , the separation process including manual , gravity , flotation separation , most of the time , use unite
processes . No matter oxide ore or sulfide ore , they all heavier than matrix , so we could choose gravity separation for most of the antimony ore . For the ore with thick grain , manual separation is more useful .
Gravity separation
Gravity separation divides into heavy medium separation , jig separation , sluice separation and shaking table separation .
Flotation process
After grinding and flotation the tailings from the gravity separation , use one rough , three concentrate , two
scavenging process . After flotation is the antimony concentrate . The tailings introduced to shaking table , and recover the fine oxide antimony , obtain the high grade antimony concentration and tailings .