IRON ORE PROCESSING LINE

Iron ore crushing and screening processes

The world's iron ore resources are concentration in Australia, Brazil, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, India, the United States, South Africa, Canada and other countries. Several important iron ore are including magnetite, hematite, limonite, iron silicate minerals and other silicate. The majority of iron ore goes through iron ore processing and is used to make steel. Iron ore processing is a process that contains explosions, shoveling, moving, crushing, grinding, pelletizing etc. Iron ore processing provides a range of coarse sizing which can produce material in 24-inch to .0017-inch particle sizes.

In iron ire process, the crushing and screening process is a basic link to concentrator will directly affect the production of indicators. Methods used to include jaw crushing, impact crushing, roll crushing, and pulverizing. In order to make iron ore size as fine as possible before entering into ball mill, iron ore processors are usually use cone crushers in pre-grinding stage, cone crusher have an excellent fine crushing capability to minish iron ore size. In coarse crushing, 2.1m or 2.2m gyratory crusher is often to be selected, in medium crushing process, processer usually use standard cone crusher, and in fine crushing, short-head type cone crusher is suitable.

But, if the iron ore is very wet and sticky, the materials usually mean trouble when it comes to crushing and screening processes. In order to solve this problem, a water-flush process was used. Water is widely used to flush sticky material through some crushers and this in turn causes problems later in the crushing circuit as the excess water must be removed and disposed of. If not, after the crushers operation several years, the crusher will not to reach the expected production capacity. Once the cone crusher has a problem, there may take a very long time to maintenance it. In this case, Zenith VSI crusher is a better choice to in place of cone crushers. Because, the VSI crushers capital cost per produced ton of iron ore is lower than for a cone crusher and the production costs are also lower. In addition to this, the VSI crusher can cope with wet, sticky materials, in most cases without the need to add water.

Major benefits to the iron industry processing iron ore is a tough duty for any type of crusher, choose the suitable crusher is very important. Zenith engineer will give you the best solutions to meet your need and help you to choose the suitable crusher for your crushing process.