Hemicelluloses monosaccharides and their effect on molybdenite flotation

I Castillo, L Gutierrez, V Hernandez, E Diaz… - Powder Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of biodegradable reagents such as hemicelluloses was shown to improve copper
recovery from high clay ores, but, at the same time these reagents also depressed …

Molybdenite flotation in the presence of a polyacrylamide of low anionicity subjected to different conditions of mechanical shearing

D Estrada, L Echeverry, A Ramirez, L Gutierrez - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Polyacrylamides (PAM) are used as flocculants in the copper-molybdenum mining industry
to improve the settling rate of flotation tailings. These types of reagents are recirculated to …

A study on the electric surface potential and hydrophobicity of quartz particles in the presence of hexyl amine cellulose nanocrystals and their correlation to flotation

R Hartmann, R Serna-Guerrero - Frontiers in Materials, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this work, the study of hexyl amine cellulose nanocrystal (HAC) as a renewable and
environmentally-friendly reagent for the flotation of quartz (QRZ) is expanded with a focus on …