Abstract:
Modified resins are disclosed for removing a wide variety of solids and/or ionic species from the liquids in which they are suspended and/or dissolved. These modified resins are especially useful as froth flotation depressants in the beneficiation of many types of materials (e.g., mineral and metal ores), including the beneficiation of impure coal comprising clay impurities, as well as in the separation of valuable bitumen from solid contaminants such as sand. The modified resins are also useful for treating aqueous liquid suspensions to remove solid particulates, as well as for removing metallic ions in the purification of water. The modified resins comprise a base resin that is modified with a coupling agent, which is highly selective for binding to solid contaminants and especially siliceous materials such as sand or clay.
Abstract:
A new reagent for the application in the preparation of mineral raw materials, mainly sulphide and oxyde mono-and polymetallic ores of non-ferrous metals, which are used as a corrosion inhibitor of the equipment and grinding bodies and as a selective collector of the wanted metal, is described. The new reagent is a composition of water, mercaptobenzothiazole salts and its derivatives in the quantity of 0-50%, by weight, sodium metasilicates in the quantity of 0,1-10%, by weight, amines in the quantity of 1-5%, by weight, and dithiophosphates in the quantitiy of 0,5-20%, by weight. Also, it discloses the methods for the applicationof that new reagent for the preparations of the copper, zinc and lead concentrates from the sulphide and oxyde ores, for the purpose of further metallurgic processing. In those methods the new reagent is added fully, or in part, in the phase of wet grinding, and in part, as needed, in the flotation phase, in the quantity of 20-300g of the reagent per ton of ore. The application of this new reagent eliminates the need for the use of cyanide and other poisonous depressants of metals, as well as other collectors.
Abstract:
Colored impurities are removed from kaolin clay by an improved flotation process in which a blend of a fatty acid compound and a hydroxamate compound is used as a collector.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of treating a base metal bearing material for recovering a metal concentrate, by conditioning the base metal bearing concentrate with a slurry having a pulp density of at least 20 % solids in the presence of water whilst maintaining the slurry at a pH of at least 7 for a predetermined period of time and thereafter recovering the metal concentrate.
Abstract:
The separation of coal from pyrite is enhanced by the use of an effective amount of a polymeric acid or salt thereof as a pyrite depressant in conventional flotation processes. The polymeric acid may be a carboxylic or sulfonic acid. An example of a salt of a polymeric acid useful in the process is sodium polyacrylate.
Abstract:
Cationic reverse flotation methods, systems, and processes for producing a marketable iron oxide concentrate from an iron oxide mineral slurry ("treatment slurry"), wherein the iron oxide content of the concentrate is greater than the iron oxide content of the treatment slurry, include introducing the treatment slurry into a flotation cell, together with a collector, a frother and optionally an iron oxide depressant, and recovering two flow streams from the flotation cell, namely a froth fraction (also referred to as a flotation tail fraction) and a sink material fraction (also referred to as the flotation concentrate), wherein the treatment slurry in the flotation cell is maintained at a Natural pH.
Abstract:
Provided herein is a process for recovery of gold from gold-containing raw materials comprising refractory gold-containing minerals, in particular gold-containing refractory sulfidic minerals, comprising (a) obtaining gold-containing raw material comprising refractory gold-containing sulfidic minerals comprising first type of refractory sulfidic mineral having high gold content and second type of sulfidic mineral having low gold content; (b) forming a mineral pulp comprising first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high gold content and second type of sulfidic mineral particles having low gold content by suspending ground gold-containing material in water and optionally further milling the material; (c) conditioning the mineral pulp by addition of a surface modifying chemical for modifying the surface of the first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high content thus making the said particles non-floatable to obtain a conditioned pulp; (d) subjecting the conditioned pulp to a froth flotation process to separate first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high gold content from the second type of sulfidic mineral particles having low gold content; (e) recovering the non-floatable first type of refractory sulfidic mineral particles having high cold content as flotation tailings; (f) pressure oxidizing (POX) the flotation tailings recovered in step (e) to obtain a discharge slurry comprising liberated gold; and (g) recovering gold from the discharge slurry obtained in step (f).
Abstract:
Depressants comprising a moderately oxidized polysaccharide having about 0.05 to about 4.5 mmol of anionic charge per gram at a pH of about 6 to about 7, or about 0.2 to about 5 mmol of anionic charge per gram at a pH of about 10 to about 11.2, are provided. Also disclosed are processes for enriching a desired mineral from an ore comprising the desired mineral and gangue, wherein the process comprises carrying out a flotation process in the presence of one or more of the depressants.
Abstract:
A method of depressing copper sulfides and iron sulfides in a molybdenite floatation recovery process uses alkaline or alkaline earth potysulftdes at high concentrate pH. The method of enriching molybdenite content from a slurry having molybdenite and at least one of iron sulfides and copper sulfides can include the steps of adding an effective amount of a depressing reagent selected from one or more alkaline poly sulfides, alkaline earth polysulfides, or a mixture thereof, to the slurry, wherein the pH of the slurry is greater than about 8.0; and passing a gas through the slurry to separate material by selective flotation, recovering the molybdonite from a froth.
Abstract:
There is provided methods for separating a target material from a raw material by mixing the raw material with water to form a slurry, adding a collector compound to the slurry to modify a relative hydrophobicity of a surface of the target material, adding a facilitator compound to enhance the modification of the relative hydrophobicity of the surface, and forming a froth including a concentrate of the target material. Disclosed methods may also include adding a facilitator compound to a raw material slurry that has been treated with a collector compound and a reagent for neutralizing the collector compound.