Ore dressing laboratory located at Hyderabad is engaged in the field of mineral processing. Besides fulfilling the mandate of serving the various units of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in trying to find ways and means for economic and optimal processing of various ores of atomic minerals, this laboratory has undertaken investigation on flow-sheet development, process optimization in the field of mineral beneficiation for various public and private mineral based organizations. The laboratory is well equipped with facilities for characterization of the feed, intermediate streams and end-products, and basic and advanced experiments as well as bench and pilot-plant scale beneficiation tests.  Facilities for mineralogical, chemical, surface and particulate characterization form an essential component.

Recently, a Technology Demonstration Pilot Plant (TDPP) was set up at UCIL complex, Jaduguda. The plant is envisaged as a centralised Departmental facility for carrying out large scale process development studies on various uranium ore samples of the country to confirm the results obtained in the laboratory on bench scale experiments and also to generate the required process engineering parameters for scale up and design.