Modelling and Simulation of the Santa Rita Mine Milling Circuit

The Santa Rita Mine, located in the State of Bahia, was the first Mirabela Mineração operation in Brazil. Started in 2009, the nickel sulphide processing plant has undergone constant modifications, aiming to adapt to the changes in the ore. Main modifications included autogenous grinding converted to semi-autogenous, as well as the installation of a desliming stage aiming to remove ultrafine minerals which reduced the nickel recovery in...