Abstract: In light of the fact that there is small amount of strongly magnetic iron-bearing minerals in the tailings of Jinling Iron Concentrator, the process for recovering the iron from the tailings was studied. As a result, a process consisting of one roughing and one cleaning by low intensity magnetic separation and re-concentration by magnetic separation column was adopted, which obtained an iron concentrate having a grade of 45.87% and a recovery of 5.21% from tailings containing 3.70% iron.

Key words: Iron recovery from tailings, Low intensity magnetic separation, Magnetic separating column