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Identification of mineralogical ore varieties using ultrasonic measurement results

Volodymyr Morkun1, Natalia Morkun1, Gerhard Fischerauer1, Vitalii Tron2, Alona Haponenko2, Yevhen Bobrov1

1Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, Germany

2Kryvyi Rih National University, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine


Min. miner. depos. 2024, 18(3):1-8


https://doi.org/10.33271/mining18.03.001

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      ABSTRACT

      Purpose. To improve the measurement and information base of ultrasonic measurements rock characteristics to assess their mineralogical varieties. It is proposed to use a combination of measurement results of the acoustic quality factor of the test sample in relation to longitudinal and transverse ultrasonic waves, as well as the characteristic coefficient based on the dispersion and the average amplitude value of the received signal, for fuzzy identification of mineralogical and technological varieties of iron ore.

      Methods. As elastic waves propagate through the rock mass, they undergo attenuation due to absorption and dissipation of ultrasonic signal energy. The degree of attenuation, as well as the wave propagation velocity, is dependent on the physical-mechanical and chemical-mineralogical properties of the medium through which they travel. In this paper, we analyze a rock characterized by a complex structure comprising ore inclusions and surrounding matrix, each of which differs in its physical-mechanical and chemical-mineralogical properties. In particular, in iron ore samples, the distribution of mineral grains and aggregates exhibits significant heterogeneity in terms of both amount and size.

      Findings. An iterative method of fuzzy identification of mineralogical-technological iron ore varieties, based on the analysis of their properties in vector space of features, allows, by minimizing the sums of weighted distances between the analyzed and reference values of ultrasonic measurement results, to attribute them with a certain degree of belonging to the main technological types of ores mined at the deposit, and define them as magnetite quartzite with a confidence probability of 0.93.

      Originality. As an information base for identification of mineralogical iron ore varieties, the results of measuring the velocity and attenuation of longitudinal and transverse ultrasonic waves of appropriate frequency are used, on the basis of which the acoustic quality factor of the rock sample is calculated, as well as the characteristic parameter S, which is determined by the dispersion and average values of the received ultrasonic signal intensity, which has traveled a certain distance in the studied environment.

      Practical implications. The results of tests and practical approbation of the method for identifying mineralogical iron ore varieties based on the data of ultrasonic well logging testify to its high efficiency, which allows recommending the developed scientific-technical solutions for wide industrial application at mining enterprises.

      Keywords: iron ore, identification, ultrasound, fuzzy clustering


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