Beneficiation Of Abu Tartur Phosphate Rock

A review of the beneficiation of calcareous …

A review of the beneficiation of calcareous phosphate ores using organic acid leaching. A review of the beneficiation of calcareous phosphate ores using organic acid leaching ... Malash, G.F., 2005. Beneﬁciation of …

Waste rock reprocessing to enhance the sustainability of phosphate …

Introduction. Phosphorus (phôs: light and phoros: bearer in Greek), which is an essential element for all life forms, is a major and vital non-renewable resource (Elbendary et al., 2019; Sis and Chander, 2003).Phosphorus was discovered by Henning Brand in 1669 (Huminicki and Hawthorne, 2002). Phosphate rock is mainly used as a …

Geochemical significance for the composition and …

Section snippets Geologic setting. Abu Tartur is a plateau of approximately 470m–550 m altitudes above sea level. It forms one of the main geographical features in the Western Desert in Egypt, covering a vast area of 2000 km 2 that lay between Kharga oasis and Dakhla oasis depressions to the east and west, respectively. The study area is …

Phosphate Mining Wastes at Abu Tartur Mine Area, …

rock, and the beneficiation method used to concentrate the ore. This range of mine waste types that differs in ... Abu-Tartur phosphate mine is the largest phosphate mine in Egypt. The mine located adjacent to Abu Tartur plateau, some 50 Km to the west of El Kharga Oasis, Western Desert of Egypt (Figure 1). ...

HIGHLIGHTS ON THE BENEFICIATION TRIALS OF …

The phosphate ore reserves of Abu Tartur district represent about one-third of all the phosphate reserves of Egypt (more than 1000 million tons). It contains about 24.6% P 2 O 5 .

Recovery of lanthanides from Abu Tartur phosphate rock, …

In a typical test, the weight of the oxide concentrate obtained represented 4% of the weight of the phosphate rock treated, which agrees with the work of Habashi et al. [3] on Florida phosphate rock. Analysis of the concentrate produced from Abu Tartur phosphate rock was found to give 96% CaO, 2.8% Ln 2 O 3, 0.6% P and 0.009% Fe. …

Enrichment of abu-tartur phosphate ore wastes

Solid and liquid wastes associated with the phosphate mining and beneficiation activities at Abu Tartur phosphate mine were collected from the tailing pond.

Recovery of lanthanides from Abu Tartur phosphate rock, …

The phosphate rock contains trace amounts of uranium and lanthanides. When treating this rock with H2SO4 produces phosphoric acid together with 5 times of its quantity of phosphogypsum (PG)…

Selective leaching kinetics of calcareous phosphate rock in …

DOI: 10.1016/J.CEJ.2006.12.002 Corpus ID: 96614158; Selective leaching kinetics of calcareous phosphate rock in lactic acid @article{Zafar2007SelectiveLK, title={Selective leaching kinetics of calcareous phosphate rock in lactic acid}, author={Zafar Iqbal Zafar and Mohammad Waqar Ashraf}, journal={Chemical Engineering Journal}, year={2007}, …

Beneficiation of Abu Tartur phosphate rock by leaching with …

It was found that upon treatment of ground Abu Tartur phosphate rock with dilute acetic acid the % P2O5 can be raised to 28.6% from an original value of 25.6 % …

Evaluation and Optimization of Abu Tartur Egyptian …

Chemical Composition of Abu Tartur Phosphate Ore: Abu Tartur phosphate ore is characterized by XRD (Figure1) which shows the presence of insoluble P R2 RO R5 R is 24.5 % and the other element presence in this ore is Ca 39.5 %, L.O.I.12.32 %, SiO R2 R with 7%, SO 5.07%, R 2Fe R O R 3 R with 6.6%, Al R2 RO R3 R 2.02%and other traces …

HIGHLIGHTS ON THE BENEFICIATION TRIALS OF THE …

Sofremines, Complementary beneficiation tests on Abu Tartur phosphate rock, France (1975). [63]. Cohen, E., and Hamoud, N.S., "Low temperature roasting in upgrading the …

The Phosphate Mining in Egypt: Geology and Sustainable …

near Abu Tartur is largely responsible for the signifi cant rise in p roduction. ... Upgrading the phosphate rock is done through: crushing, screening, attrition scrubbing, desliming, and drying ...

Leaching of rare earths from Abu Tartur (Egypt) phosphate rock …

Effect of different parameters on REEs leaching efficiency from Abu Tartur phosphate rock with a particle size of 150 µm. a reaction time: 5 mL/g; 100 rpm; 15 wt.-% P 2 O 5 ; 25 °C. b phosphoric ...

The potential production of rock-based fertilizer and soil …

This enabled the beneficiation of Abu-Tartur phosphate rejects (21.8 wt% P 2 O 5 & 1.8–8.0 wt% MgO), resulting in valuable concentrate assaying 29.5 wt% P 2 …

Dissolution Kinetics of Western Deseret Phosphate Rocks, Abu Tartur …

The dissolution kinetics of the Abu-Tartur phosphate rock using dilute hydrochloric acid has been investigated. The influence of acid concentration, liquid/solid ratio, particle size and temperature was studied to explore the dissolution kinetics of phosphate rock. It was found that the leaching rate increases with increasing the acid concentration, liquid/solid …

(PDF) Upgrading of Abu-Tartur calcareous …

It was found that upon treatment of ground Abu Tartur phosphate rock with dilute acetic acid the % P2O5 can be raised to 28.6% from an original value of 25.6 % P2O5 with a phosphate recovery of …

ENRICHMENT OF ABU-TARTUR PHOSPHATE ORE …

Abu-Tartur phosphate (Egypt) beneficiation process discards large amount of phosphate tailings as magnetic wastes and slimes. These wastes represent about 20% of the run-of-mine ore.

Dissolution Kinetics of Western Deseret Phosphate …

to exceed 3 billion tons, Notholt, (1985).Abu Tartur phosphate deposit is one of the largest phosphates mining area (1000 million tons and 200 million tons proved) in the Middle East. The mining ...

The potential production of rock-based fertilizer and soil …

This enabled the beneficiation of Abu-Tartur phosphate rejects (21.8 wt% P 2 O 5 & 1.8–8.0 wt% MgO), resulting in valuable concentrate assaying 29.5 wt% P 2 O 5 and 0.6–1 wt% MgO (Yehia et al., 2001; Abouzeid et al., 2009). However, the flotation processes were no longer practiced at Abu-Tartur mine due to the scarcity of water in …

Leaching of rare earths from Abu Tartur (Egypt) phosphate rock …

The leaching of rare earth elements (REEs) from Egyptian Abu Tartur phosphate rock using phosphoric acid has been examined and was subsequently optimized to better understand if such an approach could be industrially feasible. Preliminary experiments were performed to properly define the design of experiments. …

TECHNICAL AND ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY OF …

Engineer's Name: Nabil El-Sayed Abdel- Rahman El-Sharkawy Date of Birth: 10/2/1965 Nationality: Egyptian E-mail: Nabil1201200@gmail Phone: 01006034983 Address: Zawyit-biltan –Toukh –Qalyubia Registration Date: 1/3/2013 Awarding Date: 2017 Degree: Master of Science Department: Mining Engineering Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ayman A. El …

Leaching of rare earths from Abu Tartur (Egypt) …

The phosphate rock sample contained 30.1% P2O5 and 44.4% CaO with a CaO/P2O5 ratio of 1.48. The value ≥ 1 indi-cates that Abu Tartur phosphate is a high-grade …

The potential production of rock-based fertilizer and soil …

This enabled the beneficiation of Abu-Tartur phosphate rejects (21.8 wt% P 2 O 5 & 1.8–8.0 wt% MgO), resulting in valuable concentrate assaying 29.5 wt% P 2 O 5 and 0.6–1 wt% MgO (Yehia et al., ... citrate-soluble phosphorous is extracted at 17.16% total solubility when the proportion of phosphate rock is twice at phosphate-rich M#2 ...

Dissolution kinetics of Western Desert phosphate rocks, Abu Tartur …

The leaching of rare earth elements (REEs) from Egyptian Abu Tartur phosphate rock using phosphoric acid has been examined and was subsequently optimized to better understand if such an approach ...

Leaching of rare earths from Abu Tartur (Egypt) …

Abu Tartur phosphate rock from Egypt, Amine et al. [25] for Moroccan phosphate ore, Bandara and Senanayake [26, 27] as well as Stone et al. [28] for uorapatite from Australia, Jin

Recovery of Uranium and Rare Earth Elements from …

The Abu-Tartur phosphate deposit (Western desert, Egypt) is one of the largest phosphate deposits in the world. It is geomorphologically localized in the southeastern portion of the Abu-Tartur plateau (600 km from Cairo) and is the largest source of uranium and rare earth elements (REEs) in Egypt [1]. Abu-Tartur plateau

Mineral Resources in Egypt (II): Non-metallic Ore Deposits

The fifth domain represents the near surface medium grade phosphate rock in the Dakhla Oasis, from Asmant village to north Mawhoob. The average thickness varies between 1.5 and 3 m. ... Applying new mining methods especially in the Red Sea and Abu Tartur, exploration, and beneficiation of the medium and low-grade ore may drive …

Highlights on the Beneficiation Trials of the Egyptian …

Beneficiation of phosphate ore – Nile Valley Egyptian phosphate ore - Red Sea Egyptian phosphate ore – Abu Tartur Egyptian phosphate ore. _____ 1 Faculty of Engineering, …