Insitiute of Mineral Resources, Tashkent, Uzbekistan:

V. D. Tsoi, Head of Geological Exploration Procedure Department, Professor, Doctor of Geologo-Mineralogical Sciences
S. E. Bulin, CAT I Geologist

Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat, Navoi, Uzbekistan:
R. I. Usmanov, Head of Innovation Center Group, r.usmanov@ngmk.uz
A. B. Khvan, Leading Engineer of Geological Department

This article describes the apparatus analysis procedure and results on material constitution of mineral products obtained at Hydrometallurgical Works 3 of the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinat, Republic of Uzbekistan. As against the earlier research carried out at the Works, the analysis was integrated and its scope embraced 12 kinds of mineral products: original ore from the Kokpatas and Daugyztau deposits; flotation concentrates, tailings, primary solid product and secondary oxidized product obtained with BIOX^® plant, feed and rejects of KEMIX plant, thickened neutralization product, etc. The apparatus investigation was carried out with the X-ray phase analysis and structure identification using diffractometer Empyrean (Panalytical), scanning electron microscope SEM EVO MA 10 (Carl Zeiss) and methods of mineralogy and petrography. The experiments were executed at the laboratories of the Center for Advanced Technologies, Uzbekistan. The research findings were compared with the microscopy data obtained using conventional technique.

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