Approches pour la concentration de minerais de fer complexes de basse teneur
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Abstract
The depletion of high-grade iron ore deposits, combined with an increasing demand for high-quality concentrates driven by the decarbonization of the steel industry, presents significant challenges for the iron ore sector. The Mont Reed iron deposit, a strategic asset of ArcelorMittal located in the southern section of the Labrador Trough (Greenville tectonic province, Canada), exemplifies this situation. Acquired in the 1960s but left unexploited since then, due to its complex mineralogy, Mont Reed is now a viable alternative as reserves at ArcelorMittal's Mont-Wright complex (the company's largest iron ore mine) will be depleted in a soon future. The objective of this thesis is to develop an efficient process route for Mont Reed ore to produce a direct reduction (DR) quality concentrate (< 3% SiO₂ + Al₂O₃), addressing the critical issues of complex, low-grade iron ore beneficiation. The research tackles key challenges, including the need for detailed technological characterization, the presence of complex iron-bearing gangue, small liberation sizes, high energy requirements, the importance of pre-concentration, and the use of multiple beneficiation and flotation techniques to achieve a high-grade concentrate. Results demonstrate the feasibility of a tailored process route for Mont Reed, integrating coordinated beneficiation methods (gravity separation, magnetic separation, and flotation) to meet DR quality standards. The final flowsheet, with separate recovery circuits for magnetite and hematite, yielded a high-quality concentrate containing 69.00% Fe and 2.21% combined SiO₂ + Al₂O₃, with a 35.9% yield and 76.0% Fe recovery.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
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