Pulp and Slurry Thickening Test and Calculations
The slime pulp or slurry on leaving the sand classifier with its proper admixture of lime is first led to some form of thickening device if, as is usually the case, the ratio of liquid to solid is too large for economic handling in the cyanide treatment. The form of thickener almost universally used in the early days consisted of a large spitzkasten composed of a number of pointed boxes ...