The Wushan Operation has been studied as a case study, particularly relevant to the copper-molybdenum separation circuit, in which efforts have made improve quality of molybdenum concentrate through diagnostic analysis. A key finding appearance coarser silicate minerals due their inadvertent activation flotation. suitable flotation conditions occurs, most likely, upstream bulk regarding usage n...

Copper slag flotation was studied on an industrial scale at a concentrator plant in the region of Atacama, Chile. This study consisted physical, chemical, and mineralogical characterization copper slag, along with preliminary tests. article focuses flotation, which two oneyear campaigns (2016 2017). The first campaign carried out using existing circuit plant. During second (2017), for sulfide o...

In today’s operating environment many conventional cleaner circuits struggle to produce final grade concentrate with acceptable levels of non-sulfide gangue and/or penalty elements. This is primarily due to poor selectivity and the entrainment of gangue, and is further exacerbated by the processing of lower grade ores with more complex mineralogy that require finer grinding for liberation. In n...

Sparingly soluble Ion—association compounds Thrmed between multicharged anionic complexes ( formed from trace amounts of an element to be preconoentrated and determined) and hydrophobic basic dyes, accumulate at the phase boundary after shaking with a solvent of low polarity, This type of flotation (without surfactant and gas bubbling) depends on the acidity, the dyestuff and the flotation agen...

A procedural modification of the AOAC Official Method for extracting light filth from ground oregano and ground marjoram was tested in an intralaboratory study. The modified method specifies isopropanol defatting, 975.49A(a), rather than chloroform-isopropanol defatting, 975.49A(b), followed by direct flotation as directed in AOAC Official Method, 975.49B(b). The modified method provided compar...

The influence of conditioning on the flotation of pyrrhotite in the presence of chlorite was investigated through flotation tests, sedimentation tests, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. The flotation results show that chlorite slimes dramatically impair the flotation of pyrrhotite. Sedimentation and flotation tests reveal that conditioning can effectively remove chlorite slim...