Disclosed is a sodium petroleum sulfonate collector for fluorite flotation, comprising sodium petroleum sulfonate and non-polar oil, wherein the molar ratio of the non-polar oil to the sodium petroleum sulfonate is 3.33-5.67, the sodium petroleum sulfonate comprises raw material oil and active substance, the molecular weight of the raw material oil is 350-450, the molecular weight of the sodium petroleum sulfonate is 500-750, the aromatic hydrocarbon comprises benzene ring hydrocarbon and naphthalene ring hydrocarbon, the content of the benzene ring hydrocarbon is 5% to 11%, and the content of the naphthalene ring hydrocarbon is 5% to 5.2%, the raw material oil needs to be sulfonated by sulfur trioxide, and the molar ratio of the aromatic hydrocarbon to the sulfur trioxide in the raw material oil is 2.4 to 5. The sodium petroleum sulfonate collector proposed by this disclosure is both efficient and low temperature resistant.

The present invention relates to the use for ore beneficiation, of at least one derivative of alkoxylated (polyester)amine. The present invention also relates to the flotation pulp and the tailings comprising said product useful for ore beneficiation.

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The present invention pertains to a composition comprising at least one compound of formula (I) and to the use of said composition for recovering value minerals from ore and other feedstocks by flotation (formula (I)).

A hydrometallurgical method for simultaneously extracting zinc, lead, silver, iron and calcium from electric arc furnace dust (hazardous waste) produced by the steelmaking industry (steelworks), in the form of industrial products: zinc as zinc sulphate or zinc cathodes; lead and silver as a concentrate of lead and silver; iron as reduced elemental iron for return to the electric arc furnace; and, lastly, calcium as gypsum, without solid waste or liquid effluents being generated relates to the chemical nature of the electric arc furnace dust (complex oxides) changes to a sulfide complex, and eliminating the hazards associated with the generation of fugitive heavy-metal salts. In addition, the hydrometallurgical problem of low recovery of zinc and iron is solved. Consequently, hydrometallurgy is made easier and more environmentally friendly, as condensed water is used as a leachate, the condensed water being continuously regenerated by vacuum evaporation systems without generating effluents.

The present disclosure relates to flotation oils, processes for making such flotation oils, and uses thereof for example in the froth flotation of ores such as sylvinite ores to recover potassium chloride.

The present invention relates to the flotation of non-sulfidic minerals and ores. Particularly the present invention relates to a collector for the beneficiation of non-sulfidic minerals and ores.

A method for treating process water of a flotation arrangement is disclosed. The process comprising the steps of a) dewatering overflow of a mineral flotation circuit in a gravitational solid-liquid separator to separate a sediment from a supernatant comprising water, silica-containing particles and soluble SiO2, fine particles, microbes, and residual flotation chemicals; b) subjecting the supernatant to cleaning flotation, in which at least 90% of the flotation gas bubbles have a size from 0.2 to 250 μm, in a cleaning flotation unit for collecting at least silica-containing particles, for separating at least silica-containing particles from the supernatant into cleaning flotation overflow, and for forming purified process water as cleaning flotation underflow; c) removing cleaning flotation overflow as tailings; and d) recirculating purified process water into the mineral flotation circuit. A process water treatment arrangement is also disclosed.

A method is provided for using flotation techniques for separating rare earth metal compounds from bastnaesite ore. The method can include grinding the ore to obtain an aqueous slurry of particles, adding a depressant agent to the slurry and adjusting the pH to a suitable value for the flotation process, adding a collector mixture to the slurry that includes at least one hydroxamic acid, and adding a frother agent to the slurry, followed by subjecting the slurry to froth flotation.

Methods for niobium concentration from a carbonatite host rock are presented. A basic process for niobium mineral concentration involves performing niobium mineral flotation, on a sufficiently liberated ore slurry, using at one least aromatic hydroxamate collector; and at least one lead salt as a performance modifier. A more optimized process further includes dispersion. A further optimized process includes: magnetic separation, dispersion, sulphide removal, fine suspended particle removal, and niobium cleaner flotation stages. The use of one of number of tested lead salts during flotation improves the yield, and lowers the cost as a significantly lower amount of the collector is required. The process is useful for recovering a variety of species of niobium minerals such as fersmite, pyrochlore, columbite, fergusonite, niobium-containing rutile, and niobium-containing ilmenite.

Described herein are methods for manufacturing a concentrate enriched in iron mineral content from an ore, which contains an iron mineral and silicate, by a reverse flotation. The method includes adding a first amine to a prepared aqueous pulp of the ore and optionally one or more flotation auxiliaries to obtain an aqueous mixture. The first amine (A) may be a compound of formula I

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a salt of a protonated compound of formula I and a first anion or a mixture thereof. A second amine, which is a compound of formula II

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a salt of a protonated compound of formula II and a second anion or a mixture thereof, can be further added. Further described herein are specific compositions of the first amine (A) and the second amine (B) for a use as a flotation collector.