MARINE MINERAL TREATMENT SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a marine mineral treatment system capable of transporting only a mineral concentrate above the sea or on land by crushing and separating extracted ore as well as treating a veinstone on the sea bed without lifting the same above the sea in order to improve economic efficiency of developing a metallic mineral resource existing on the sea bed and to solve a problem with treating a veinstone.

SOLUTION: A marine mineral treatment system comprises: a miner 10 to mine a mineral resource of a hydrothermal deposit 2 existing on the sea bed 1; crushing means 20 which is installed on the sea bed 1 to crush a mineral resource mined by the miner 10; a marine mineral column floatation machine 40 which is installed on the sea bed 1 to separate the crushed mineral resource by the crushing means into a mineral concentrate and a veinstone; and mineral concentrate lifting means 60 to lift the mineral concentrate up to a mother ship 70. The marine mineral column floatation machine 40 has a discharge port to discharge the veinstone on the sea bed 1.

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