Minerals and processing features of ilmenite-leucoxene ores of Pizhemskoe deposit, Middle Timan

Prospects of development of the mining industry in the Komi Republic are associated with the largest deposits of titanium - Yaregskoe and Pizhemskoe. New data on the mineralogical and technological properties of titanium ores will allow accelerating the development of these deposits and proposing effective technologies of titanium ore processing and enhancing the list of commodity products. The set of mineralogical and analytical methods was used (optical and electron microscopy, X-ray and X-ray fluorescence analysis). Ilmenite-leucoxene ores of Pizhemskoe deposit are of complicated character, different metals (isomorphic impurity, autonomous mineral phases) are present along with main ore components. The morphometric characteristics of grains of ilmenite-leucoxene ore point to the need to use combined methods of enrichment and utilization.