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The Kelsey Centrifugal Jig is an enhanced gravity concentrator capable of separating fine minerals and/or minerals with relatively small differences in specific gravity. Since the first commercial installation at the Renison Bell tin mine in Australia, development and improvement in hardware has continued, including the introduction of the high-capacity Model J1800 Kelsey Jig. The Kelsey Centrifugal Jig is widely applicable to fine-mineral recovery duties, with key application areas including mineral sands, tin, gold and nickel. Other areas of application include iron ore, base metals, chromite, PGMs, soil remediation and sche elite. The latest developments on the Kelsey Jig are discussed together with a review of recent installations involving Fine gold/sulfide recovery from leach tailings, magnesium mineral removal from nickel sulfide concentrates and high-grade zircon recovery from plant tailings
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Preprint number 04-021, presented at the SME Annual Meeting, Feb. 23–25, 2004, Denver, Colorado. Discussion of this peer-reviewed and approved paper is invited and must be submitted to SME Publications Dept. prior to May 31, 2005.
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Richards, R.G., Jones, T.A. Kelsey Centrifugal Jig — an update on technology and application. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration 21, 179–182 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03403181
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