The invention discloses a leaching residue grading and series flotation method for complex
copper mine. The method comprises the working procedures of leaching residue grading, fine flotation and coarse flotation. Particularly, the leaching residue grading comprises the step of dividing leaching residues for
hydrometallurgy of
copper into fine-grained mine and coarse-grained mine according to a
sieve of 60-100 meshes. The fine flotation comprises the step of carrying out series roughing selection,
scavenging and fine selection for two to three times on the fine-grained mine to obtain concentrate 1, wherein the fine-grained mine is obtained through grading. The coarse flotation comprises the steps of
grinding the coarse-grained mine obtained through grading until the
fineness reaches 80% of less than 200 meshes, arranging and connecting the coarse-grained mine in series, carrying out roughing selection for one to two times,
scavenging and fine selection for two to three times on mine
discharge series to obtain concentrate 2. According to the method, the leaching residues for
hydrometallurgy of the low-grade and complex mine with
oxygen and
sulfur mixed are graded firstly, then the different series flotation and tailing reusing processes are adopted respectively, the mineral
recovery rate can be improved to 75-85% of comprehensive
recovery from 30-50% of single wet
dump leaching, the grade of the leaching residues is reduced to 0.2% or even lower from 0.5% of pre-flotation, the effect of comprehensive
recovery is obvious, and meanwhile the
pollution to environment by the leaching residues is reduced.