606 Figure 44 – NovaCell™ pilot plant copper recovery, Phase C Figure 45 – NovaCell™ pilot plant copper enrichment ratio, Phase C Figure 46 – NovaCell™ Pilot Plant product mass pull, Phase C Flores et al. (2025) concluded that laboratory performance scaled effectively to the pilot plant. The trial achieved up to 56% copper recovery and consistently exceeded expected targets for upgrade ratio (6.1) and mass pull (8%). Mineralogical analysis confirmed that the NovaCell™ efficiently recovered coarse (+212 µm), poorly liberated (<30%) particles, typically lost in conventional flotation cells, while also recovering fine particles via the froth concentrate.
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