Beneficiate
This process focuses on the processing of ores for the purpose of:
- Regulating the size of a desired product, removing unwanted constituents, and improving the quality, purity, or assay grade of a desired product
- Concentration or other preparation of ore for smelting by, for example, drying, flotation, or magnetic separation and improvement of the grade of ores by milling, flotation, sintering, gravity concentration, or other processes.