What Equipment Are Needed to Process Iron Ore?

Iron ore is different from basalt and granite. Because it contains rich iron, so apart from the crushing procedure, it also needs a dry separation process. When choosing equipment, we much pay attention to equipment's leading performance. In the aspect of crushing, we must make sure that the materials having been crushed must make for the following dry separation. The best plan is to employ coarse jaw crusher, fine jaw crusher and fine hammer crusher. It not only greatly lowers down the wear and tear to the equipment during the production, but also reduce the loss of iron.

There are lots of equipment needed to process iron ores, which are mainly divided into two major systems: crushing and magnetic separating. Next, I will analyze the two major systems in detail.

1. The crushing system:

The crushing system is generally composed of coarse jaw crusher, fine jaw crusher, sand maker and ball mill. The primary task of coarse jaw crusher is to break large-block rocks into medium-sized stone materials. It's able to break stones as large as 1000 mm. The fine jaw crusher is aimed at further crushing the materials having been broken by coarse jaw crusher. Sand maker is to give the materials crushed by the fine jaw crusher a tertiary crushing, in order to reduce the loss of iron. Ball mill is used to grind the materials having been processed by sand maker into powder.

2. The magnetic separation system:

In the magnetic separation system, we use spiral classifier to wash and select the materials discharged from sand maker, so as to separate iron from other minerals. Then the magnetic separator separates the iron out by magnetic principle. At last, we use the high-frequency screen to select large particles out.

The whole process is basically like this.