It is also possible to achieve a selective flotation of carbonate and siliceous gangue elements by operating successively, by means of a collector of ester phosphoric type (alkylphosphates in C8--C20) (Table XVIII): (a) a phosphate + carbonate bulk flotation, silica remaining at cell bottom; TABLE XVII Flotation with an amphoteric reagent ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The PS was then evaluated for its ability to depress apatite, enhancing the separation efficiency of apatite from calcite in phosphate rock beneficiation via reverse flotation. Micro-flotation experiments revealed PS's distinct depression effect on apatite while minimally impacting calcite.
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The results of single mineral flotation experiments showed that GA performed a considerable selective depression on calcite at pH 7–11, and a concentrate with apatite recovery of 88.84% and P 2 O 5 grade of 26.86% was obtained in the apatite-calcite binary mixed mineral flotation experiment. Therefore, GA can be used as a separate depressant ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073ively depress calcite in scheelite flotation [27–28]. Lignosulfonate is also used as depressant for the flotation of muscovite [29]. Moreover, calcium lignosulfonate also has depressant effect on chalcopyrite [30], talc [31]. Although calcium lignosulfonate has many applications in flotation, its selective depression of dolomite in apatite flota-
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The main depressants for separating smithsonite and calcite by flotation are inorganic and organic depressants. Inorganic depressants mainly include sodium silicate (Na 2 SiO 3) and sodium hexametaphosphate ((NaPO 3) 6) (Changgen, 1983, Liao et al., 2022).Currently, sodium silicate is the most commonly used inorganic depressant in the industry.
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Abstract: In order to selectively separate smithsonite and calcite using potassium lauryl phosphate as collector and reveal the depression mechanism, the approaches of micro-flotation and zeta potential measurements were adopted. The effects of sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP), water glass (WG), carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073ABSTRACT. Apatite (Ca 10 (PO 4) 6 F 2) is the most important phosphate mineral, and flotation is the main beneficiation method to separate apatite from its major gangue mineral calcite (CaCO 3).Till date, fatty acids and their salts have been widely used as collectors in the apatite/calcite flotation separation due to their low cost and strong collecting ability, but their …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Apatite is the valuable mineral in phosphate ores. It is classified as a sparingly soluble salt-type mineral. A common group of minerals found with apatite as gangue are clay, dolomite, quartz and calcite [1, 2]. The flotation of phosphate ores containing siliceous gangue is successful due to the different surface properties of silicates and ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073To achieve this, phosphate froth flotation has been applied since the early 20th century, which can be performed through direct or reverse flotation methods. The first approach consists in the impurities' depression and the apatite recovery, whereas the reverse flotation involves the apatite depression and the gangue flotation [8].
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073most important phosphate mineral and flotation serves as the primary method for separating it from its predominant gangue ... exhibited the selectivity for calcite depression in binary ... to 10% at a concentration of 10 mg/L [32]. El-Mofty et al. (2015) conducted a study on calcite flotation in which recovery was achieved using 5×10-5 M ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073As semi soluble salts minerals (included in non-sulphide ores), phosphate rock is the principal natural resource exploited in the mining industry for the extraction of phosphorus [4, 6].It is predominantly composed of apatite, which constitutes the valuable fraction, as well as carbonates (calcite, dolomite), silicates (clays and quartz) and other minerals, which are …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The objective of this study was to examine the selective depression mechanism of gypsum in the flotation separation of apatite from calcite. The flotation behavior of apatite and calcite before and after the addition of gypsum and the effective components of gypsum in solution were investigated via micro-flotation experiments.
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Froth flotation is a commonly utilized beneficiation technique for effectively separating apatite from other gangue minerals, such as calcite. It is difficult to achieve good separation with fatty acid collectors due to their similar interactions with apatite and calcite. In this work, sodium N-lauroyl sarcosinate (SNLS) was used as the collector for the selective …
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Guar gum selectively adsorbed on the calcite surface and formed strong Ca-O chemical bond via phosphate group and hydroxide radical, which reduced the number of Ca adsorption sites on the calcite surface and thus hindered the interaction between sodium oleate and calcite surface, realizing the effective flotation separation of smithsonite from ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Results of work aimed at optimizing depression of phosphate oölites during inverse flotation of the carbonate gangue with sodium oleate are reported in Part 4. ... The flotation of calcite and phosphate oölites, using both anionic and cationic collectors, is discussed in the third part. It is shown that selective recovery could be obtained ...
WhatsApp: +86 18221755073However, admittedly, the efficient depression of calcite remains a difficult subject in phosphate flotation process. Gum arabic (GA) is a kind of natural gum produced in the semi-desert region of Sub-Saharan Africa, which has a complex chemical structure of branched chains of (1−3)-linked D-galactopyranosyl containing L-arabinofuranosyl, L ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The flotation response of malachite, calcite and quartz to bis (2-ethylhexyl) phosphate (DEHPA), dibutyl phosphate (DBP) and tributyl phosphate (TBP) was evaluated by micro-flotation experiments. The results showed that DEHPA exhibited an impressive flotation selectivity for malachite against calcite/quartz in the pH range of 6.0–9.0 and ...
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