ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,030, issued on June 10, was assigned to FORTESCUE METALS GROUP LTD (East Perth, Australia).
"Method for the beneficiation of iron ore streams" was invented by Stephen Stretch (Padbury, Australia) and Bohdan Ilich (Bicton, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of beneficiating iron ore streams, the method comprising the steps of sizing an iron ore stream to provide a fines fraction of less than 3.0 mm diameter particle size and contacting the fines fraction with a magnetic field and magnetically separating the fines fraction into a concentrate stream and a tailings stream."
The patent was filed on July 2, 2020, under Appl...