A critical review on natural surfactants and their potential for sustainable mineral flotation

A Oulkhir, K Lyamlouli, M Danouche… - … Science and Bio …, 2023 - Springer
The transition of the mineral processing sectors, which depend mainly on various petroleum-
origin chemicals, to the green industry based on the production of greener materials and the …

[HTML][HTML] Calcite in froth flotation-A review

A Faramarzpour, MRS Yazdi, B Mohammadi… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Calcite is a semi-soluble mineral that can be considered one of the main problematic
gangue phases for several different types of valuable sulfides and oxides. Since froth …

An ion-tolerance collector AESNa for effective flotation of magnesite from dolomite

W Liu, W Sun, W Liu, S Dai, H Duan, S Zhou, J Qiu - Minerals Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The separation of magnesite and dolomite has always been a difficult problem in flotation
production, one of the reasons is that the dissolved Ca 2+ ions from dolomite weaken the …

Insights into the influence of calcium ions on the adsorption behavior of sodium oleate and its response to flotation of quartz: FT-IR, XPS and AMF studies

Z Ding, J Li, J Yuan, A Yu, S Wen, S Bai - Minerals Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Assiduous efforts on the high-efficiency flotation of quartz with calcium ion activation have
been ongoing, while there is a lack of understanding of its potential mechanism. In this …

Exploring the separation mechanism of Gemini surfactant in scheelite froth flotation at low temperatures: Surface characterization, DFT calculations and kinetic …

C Ni, Y Xie, C Liu, Z Han, H Shen, W Ran, W Xie… - Separation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Scheelite is usually recovered using flotation, but separating the gangue minerals at low
temperatures has been challenging. In this paper, Hexane-1, 6 …

Understanding the depression mechanism of citric acid in sodium oleate flotation of Ca2+-activated quartz: Experimental and DFT study

Y Wang, SA Khoso, X Luo, M Tian - Minerals Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Quartz, a common gangue mineral, often coexists with the Ca-containing minerals in natural
ore deposits, such as scheelite, apatite, fluorite and calcite. The depression of quartz in the …

New perspectives in iron ore flotation: Use of collector reagents without depressants in reverse cationic flotation of quartz

K Silva, LO Filippov, A Piçarra, IV Flilippova, N Lima… - Minerals …, 2021 - Elsevier
The reverse flotation of the iron ore with etheramine collector is significantly impacted when
the iron-bearing silicates and the kaolinite are present in the silicates gangue mineral …

Selective flotation separation of fluorite from calcite using mixed anionic/cationic collectors

M Li, Z Liu, B Wang, X Teng, H Jiang - Minerals Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, anionic/cationic collector sodium oleate (NaOL) mixed with dodecylamine
(DDA) and salted water glass were used to separate fluorite from calcite. The flotation …

Hydroxypropyl amine surfactant: A novel flotation collector for efficient separation of scheelite from calcite

C Liu, C Ni, J Yao, Z Chang, Z Wang, G Zeng, X Luo… - Minerals …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, N-tetradecyl-isopropanolamine (NTIA) is synthesized and used as a new
collector on the flotation separation process of scheelite from calcite to further improve the …

Study on the flotation behavior and interaction mechanism of ilmenite with mixed BHA/NaOL collector

Y Xu, Z Yuan, Q Meng, X Zhao, Y Du - Minerals Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The mixed BHA/NaOL collector was studied to improve the floatability of ilmenite in the
presence of lead ions. The mechanism was discussed through surface tension …