Drum stone washing refers to two distinct industrial processes: either washing textiles in a large rotating drum with pumice stones to create a faded, worn look, or cleaning rocks, ores, and sand by tumbling them in a rotating drum with water to remove mud and other fine particles.
The drum stone washing machine in mining is primarily used for cleaning and desliming ores and minerals such as manganese ore, iron ore, limestone, tungsten ore, tin ore, and silica sand. It breaks down clay, lumps, and soft oxides, releasing valuable minerals and improving the beneficiation index for subsequent processing steps. The machine washes away impurities like clay, silt, and other debris, ensuring cleaner material for further processing.
The drum stone washing machine is used in mining for several reasons, those are:
- Washing and desliming of ores and minerals to improve the quality and efficiency of beneficiation.
- Breaking down clay and soft oxides that interfere with mineral processing.
- Removing fine particles, mud, and impurities from the ore to enhance downstream processes like jigging, shaking tables, flotation, and concentration.
- Screening and separating different sizes of ore particles after washing.
- Used widely for various ores such as manganese, iron, limestone, tungsten, tin, silica, as well as sand and gravel in construction-related mining activities.
This machine is valued for its reliability, efficiency in cleaning hard-to-wash ores, and its versatility in processing a variety of minerals and sand products in mining and related sectors.
