Abstract: In order to provide a foundation to explore the iron sands of an Indonesia beach for domestic enterprises, researches on the ore prosperity and the related beneficiability experiment are carried out.The results showed that the main metallic minerals are titanomagnetite, ilmenite and hematite in iron sands.Then the technical process consisting of wet pre-concentration-grinding-magnetic separation is adopted.When the grinding size was above 76.63 % -325 mesh, a good performance can be achieved with Fe concentrate yield of 59.50 %, Fe grade of 60.28% and iron recovery of 76.13 %.

Key words: Beach iron sands, Titano-magnetite, Wet pre concentration, Magnetic separation