Development of a software package for systematization and analysis of research results of iron ore preparation characteristics: goals, objectives, first data

The paper presents the results of software development aimed to systematize the findings of laboratory and integrated tests of iron ore preparation characteristics using dry magnetic separation and their analysis. Systematization of the findings is based on characteristics of the studied raw materials, i.e. grain-size analysis, chemical, mineralogical and petrographic composition, with reference to the enterprises exploiting the reserves (with account of their industrial types), as well as parameters determining the modes and conditions of dry magnetic separation and technological indicators characterizing its efficiency. The material presented in this paper describes the software project and one of its modules, i.e. ‘Data Generation’, which provides the possibility of downloading, preprocessing and systematization of the test results. The first initial data for the developed software included the laboratory and integrated tests results on the preparation characteristics of the iron ore from the deposits of the Olenegorsk ore field, including the Olenegorskoye, Komsomolskoye, 15 years of October, Kirovogorskoye, Pechegubskoye, for which the efficiency of dry magnetic separation is confirmed.