Our photo this week shows two ore agglomerators, used in the heap leaching process to extract metals such as gold, silver, nickel, or copper from ore.
Once ore is mined and crushed, it is placed inside a rotary drum agglomerator, along with a leachate solution. The rotating drum mixes the liquid and fines, creating an agglomerated ore with a uniform shape. Uniform particle shape allows solution to distribute more evenly through the ore heap, and thus efficiently recover metal through heap leaching.
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