JK Floatability Index Test
The JK Floatability Index Test has been developed through years of industrial benchmarking and is likely to become the industry’s leading predictive tool in the area of flotation.
The JKTech Floatability Index (JKFi) test is a simple and cost-effective test developed by JKTech to routinely determine the ore floatability of the feed to the flotation circuit without repeating full-scale model calibration test work.
The JKFI makes use of the latest laboratory batch flotation test technology, performing tests and varying bubble surface area flux to derive a floatability index and produce a number of key model parameters from rock samples. The index and parameters are used to predict plant metallurgical performance of flotation circuits before there is a change in plant feed.
JKSimFloat, in conjunction with the JKFi Test, provides a very powerful tool for minimising the risk of falling concentrate grades or increased losses of valuable metals to tails.
The JKFi is a measure of the flotation response of an ore. It allows:
• comparison and ranking of floatability data from different ores;
• characterising a floatability response from laboratory data and predicting a full-scale industrial response.
Key Benefits:
- Laboratory scale test
- Inexpensive
- Little disruption to production
- Fast turn around
- Suitable for ore characterisation from drill core samples
- Provision of a good estimate of the ore floatability;
- Low sample mass requirement (typically about 10kgs);
- Easily reproducible
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