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US 12,054,806 B2Granted
Uranium processing using hydrocyclone beneficiation
AssigneeUranium Beneficiation Pty Ltd
InventorMurray Philip Hill
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a beneficiation process for uranium ore comprising a hydrocyclone step that produces an underflow fraction containing uranium values for further processing and an overflow fraction containing fine particulate waste material.
Claims20
A beneficiation process for concentrating uranium ore, the process comprising:
- performing one or more hydrocyclone beneficiation step(s) on a feedstock comprising uranium-containing particles to produce a coarse underflow fraction and a fine overflow fraction according to a particle cut size,
- wherein after the beneficiation step(s) at least 80% by mass of the uranium-containing particles of the feedstock reports to the underflow fraction to thereby form a uranium concentrate for further processing, and
- wherein fine particulate waste material reports to the overflow fraction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.