4 Stages of the Quartz Sand Beneficiation Process

13 Jan.,2025

 

4 Stages of the Quartz Sand Beneficiation Process

Quartz sand is an important industrial mineral material, widely used in glass, ceramics, refractory materials, metallurgy, and rubber. The general process of quartz sand beneficiation includes four stages: preparation, preliminary separation, separation, and deep purification.

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01Quartz Sand Preparation 

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The main task of pre-selection preparation is to fully dissociate the quartz sand and achieve the appropriate particle size range to prepare for subsequent operations. The main processes include crushing, grinding, and classification.

Crushing: The commonly used crushing equipment includes jaw crushers and impact crushers. Jaw crushers are mainly used for the coarse crushing of quartz, while impact crushers are used for fine crushing operations.

Grinding: The commonly used grinding equipment for quartz sand is a wet rod mill. The fineness of grinding can be controlled, and over-grinding is not easy to occur, which can achieve better results. Moreover, the rod mill also plays a certain role in scrubbing, and removing some impurities.

Classification: The ground products are classified, and the unqualified materials are returned for further grinding, which can effectively control the particle size of the selected materials and provide suitable conditions for separation operations.

02Quartz Sand Preliminary Separation

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The main purpose of preliminary separation of quartz sand is to remove impurities such as ore slurry generated during the grinding process and the oxide iron film on the surface of quartz sand, to avoid their impact on subsequent separation operations and improve separation indicators. The main processes include washing and desliming, and scrubbing.

Washing and desliming: using hydraulic flushing to remove ore slurry and some clay impurities in quartz sand, the main equipment includes drum screens, desliming hoppers, hydraulic cyclones, etc.

Scrubbing: using mechanical external force and mineral friction to remove impurities such as oxide iron film on the surface of quartz sand, and to crush mineral clusters that have not completely dissociated into single particles. Commonly used equipment includes stirring scrubbers, spiral scrubbers, etc.

03Quartz Sand Separation

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Common beneficiation processes for quartz sand include magnetic separation and flotation.

Magnetic separation: Quartz sand is a non-magnetic mineral, but iron-containing minerals such as hematite and brown iron ore are magnetic minerals, which can be removed by magnetic separators. The finer the quartz sand particle size, the better the iron removal effect.

Flotation: This method is commonly used to remove non-magnetic minerals such as mica and feldspar from quartz sand. The flotation of mica and feldspar is generally carried out in an acidic environment, so there is a certain requirement for the corrosion resistance of the equipment.

04Quartz Sand Deep Purification

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When conventional beneficiation methods cannot effectively remove impurities deeply immersed or encapsulated in quartz sand, resulting in low purity of quartz sand, methods such as acid leaching and high-temperature roasting can be used for purification.

Acid leaching: Quartz sand is insoluble in acid, but acid can dissolve other impurities and remove impurities that other methods cannot effectively remove. However, acid leaching requires high operation requirements.

High-temperature roasting: Quartz sand is roasted at high temperature by adding chlorine gas, etc., so that the encapsulated impurities rupture, the impurities are exposed, or the deep impurities undergo reaction and transfer to the mineral surface for removal by other methods.

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Quartz Sand Dressing Production Line

Quartz Sand Dressing Production Line

The quartz sand beneficiation process is mainly for purification, removing small or trace amounts of impurities in quartz sand to obtain refined quartz sand or high-purity quartz sand, which is a highly difficult separation technology. The quartz sand purification processes at home and abroad mainly include water washing, graded desludging, scrubbing, magnetic separation, flotation, acid leaching, microbial leaching, etc.

What Is Quartz Sand Dressing Production Line?

Quartz sand beneficiation process mainly uses scrubbing, magnetic separation, flotation, acid leaching and other methods for purification in the beneficiation stage. Scrubbing is mainly used to remove surface impurities; magnetic separation can effectively remove weak magnetic impurities such as hematite, limonite, biotite, etc.; flotation uses the difference in hydrophobicity between quartz sand and gangue minerals for separation; acid leaching is used for further purification.

What Projects Quartz Sand Dressing Production Line Can Be Used in?

What are the different uses of Quartz Sand Dressing Production Line? Here are a few ideas that are often used Quartz Sand Dressing Production Line for sale, highlighting their unique features. When choosing a Quartz Sand Dressing Production Line, consider factors such as the temperature of the material and climate, not just the application area.

Glass Industry

Beneficiation of quartz sand can reduce the melting temperature of glass, improve the mechanical strength, chemical stability and heat resistance of glass, and help to produce flat glass with high transparency and excellent quality.

Ceramic Industry

As a flux raw material, quartz sand can reduce the firing temperature of ceramics, improve the strength, hardness and abrasion resistance of ceramics, and meet the requirements of ceramics in terms of stain resistance and antibacterial properties.

Chemical industry

Quartz sand as emulsifier and flux, can improve the whiteness, gloss and chemical stability of enamel, so that it has good resistance to acid, alkali, high temperature and other properties. After beneficiation treatment of quartz sand can also provide important fertilizer support for agricultural production.

Electronic industry

After beneficiation treatment of quartz sand can improve the performance and quality of electronic materials, quartz sand through a special process made of quartz fiber, for the construction of modern communication network provides an important basic material support.

Construction Industry

Additives for construction materials: quartz sand is used as additives in the production of concrete, mortar and so on. It can improve the strength, abrasion resistance and durability of building materials, and is an ideal building decoration material.

The beneficiation production line can be adapted to the needs of different industries, such as metallurgical industry, chemical industry, building materials industry and so on.

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Construction industry

In the building materials industry, iron ore beneficiation production line can be used to process some tailings or slag containing iron ore, etc..

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