beneficiate

• Verbe utilisé dans le domaine minier et métallurgique pour désigner le traitement du minerai ou d'une matière première afin d'en améliorer les propriétés ou de la préparer à une étape ultérieure de transformation, notamment en augmentant sa teneur en substance utile par concentration ou élimination des impuretés.

A verb used in mining and metallurgy to describe the process of treating raw material (such as ore) to improve its properties or prepare it for further processing.

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   To treat or process ores or other raw materials, such as by crushing, grinding, or separating, to improve their quality or prepare them for further use.

   Enrichir un minerai

   • The mining company built a new plant to beneficiate the iron ore.
   • Engineers are developing more efficient methods to beneficiate low-grade ores.
   • The process to beneficiate the raw material involves several stages of crushing and separation.

   Synonymesconcentratedressenrichupgrade