In order to decrease arsenic, which is a harmful substance, in a copper concentrate, provided is a method for selectively recovering an arsenic-containing copper mineral from a mixture including the arsenic-containing copper mineral and a non-arsenic-containing copper mineral, and a flotation agent used in the same. For a collecting agent, which is a component of the flotation agent used in a flotation step for selectively recovering the arsenic-containing copper mineral from the mixture including the arsenic-containing copper mineral and the non-arsenic-containing copper mineral, a sulfide compound having an R.sub.1—S—R.sub.2 (in this expression, R.sub.1 is a C.sub.5-.sub.10 alkyl group, and R.sub.2 is a C.sub.1-.sub.10 alkyl group) structure such as methyl n-octyl sulfide or di-n-octyl sulfide is used.

The invention relates to a beneficiation process for uranium ores comprising clay and carbonate minerals, the process comprising: performing a hydrocyclone step to obtain a hydrocyclone underflow fraction substantially comprising the uranium component; treating the hydrocyclone underflow fraction to effect a separation of carbonate and uranium minerals; and recovering the uranium-bearing minerals to produce a uranium concentrate.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a concentrate enriched in iron mineral content from an ore, which contains an iron mineral and silicate, by reverse flotation, which method comprises the step of (c) adding a compound of formula I wherein R.sup.1 is C.sub.9-C.sub.22 alkyl or alkenyl, which is linear or branched, R.sup.2 is H, C.sub.1-C.sub.4 alkyl, which is linear or branched, R.sup.3 is —X—NH.sub.2, H or C.sub.1-C.sub.4 alkyl, which is linear or branched, and X is C.sub.2-C.sub.4 alkylene, which is linear or branched, or a salt of a protonated compound of formula I and an anion, to a prepared aqueous pulp of the ore and optionally one or more flotation auxiliaries to obtain an aqueous mixture. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing a specific group of compounds of formula I, i.e. compounds of formula 1-X wherein R.sup.1 is C.sub.9-C.sub.15 alkyl, which is linear or branched, R.sup.2 is H, R.sup.3 is —X—NH.sub.2 and X is C.sub.2-C.sub.4 alkylene, which is linear or branched, is disclosed.

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A novel reagent blend and a method by which a fatty acid collector can be used at temperatures below which the fatty acid normally begins to solidify. The reagent blend may comprise fatty acid, an emulsifying reagent, and glycol ether. The emulsifying reagent may comprise 5% of the reagent blend, while the glycol ether may comprise 1% of the reagent blend. The reagent blend may be used for mineral flotation without the addition of heat.

An alkyl thioether ethyl hydroxamic acid beneficiation reagent and a preparation method and application thereof are provided. The alkyl thioether ethyl hydroxamic acid molecules have two functional groups, a thioether group and a hydroxamate group. The beneficiation reagent is obtained by esterification of alkyl thioether acetic acid and methanol and then by hydroxamation of hydroxylamine and an alkali. The alkyl thioether ethyl hydroxamic acid beneficiation reagent can be used as a collector for mineral flotation. The preparation method is simple and has a high yield. The thioether and hydroxamate group in the molecules have a synergistic effect and can effectively improve the collection performance.

This invention relates to use of a water-miscible polyhydric alcohol having two or three hydroxyl groups for improving the collector performance of a collector composition for the reverse iron ore flotation comprising at least one alkyl ether amine of formula (I) and/or alkyl ether diamine of formula (II)

R.sup.1—(O-A)-NH.sub.2  (I)

R.sup.2—(O-A)-NH—R.sup.3—NH.sub.2  (II)

wherein
R.sup.1 is a hydrocarbyl group with 6 to 24 carbon atoms,
R.sup.2 is a hydrocarbyl group with 6 to 24 carbon atoms,
R.sup.3 is an aliphatic hydrocarbyl group with 2 to 4 carbon atoms
A is an alkylene group with 2 to 6 carbon atoms.

The present disclosure discloses a combined collector for zinc oxide ore flotation, including the following components in percentage by mass: 60-95 wt % of a fatty acid, 0-10 wt % of a hydroxamic acid and 5-35 wt % of a mercaptobenzothiazole. In the flotation process of zinc oxide ore, due to the use of the combined collector of the present disclosure, it is not required to deslime. On the premise of ensuring the zinc grade in the zinc concentrate, the flotation recovery rate of the zinc concentrate is improved and the zinc grade of mineral processing tailings is reduced by using the combined collector, thereby reducing the loss of zinc metal.

The present disclosure relates to a collector composition containing (i) as a primary collector the compound of the formula (I) wherein R is an alkyl group containing between about 5 and about 16 carbon atoms that may be branched or linear, k is a value of about 1 to 3, m is an integer from about 0 to about 25, each A independently is —CH2-CH2— or —CH2CH(CH3)— or —CH2-CH(CH2-CH3)—, n is an integer of at least about 3 and at most about 8, and wherein X is an anion derivable from deprotonating a Brønsted-Lowry acid, and (ii) a second compound selected from the group of other primary collectors, secondary collectors, depressants, frothers, and solvents. The disclosure also relates to a process to treat siliceous ore that contains a step of froth flotating in the presence of a collector composition that contains the primary collector compound.

The present invention relates to a method for the selective recovery of valuable metal minerals in a froth floatation process using a non-oxidizing biocide.

A flotation arrangement for treating mineral ore particles suspended in slurry includes a primary flotation line with a rougher part and a scavenger part. Overflow of at least one rougher primary flotation cell is arranged to flow directly into a rougher cleaner cell. Underflow from a first rougher cleaner flotation cell is combined into overflow from a rougher primary flotation cell downstream from the rougher primary flotation cell from which the first rougher cleaner flotation cell receives primary overflow; or into combined overflows from rougher primary flotation cells downstream from the rougher primary flotation cell from which the first rougher cleaner flotation cell receives primary overflow; or into overflow from an additional rougher cleaner cell which receives primary overflow from at least one rougher primary flotation cell downstream from the rougher primary flotation cell from which the first rougher cleaner flotation cell receives primary overflow.