A processing facility or a specific piece of machinery that separates valuable minerals from waste rock. It takes finely crushed ore and uses gravity, flotation, or air pulses to isolate the target metal, producing a high-grade product ready for smelting.
Heard on the job
The haul trucks are dumping directly into the primary crusher at the concentrator.
Related terms
Comminution
The mechanical process of reducing solid ore into smaller particles.
Beneficiate
To process raw mined ore to improve its grade by removing waste material.
Flotation
A mineral separation method that uses chemical reagents and air bubbles to lift specific target minerals to the surface of a liquid bath.