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During wet grinding the electrochemical interactions between grinding media and pyrrhotite not only acelerate media wear but also adversely affect the sulfide minerals flotation response. A possible remedy of the adverse effects on floatability by applying electric potentials to grinding media was examined. Flotation tests, Auger electron spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to study pyrrhotite surface properties. Although anodic polarization of the steels increased metal loss by corroston, pyrrhotite flotation recovery was increased. In the case of cathodic polarization, flotation recovery improved somewhat in a narrow range of overpotentials. At higher cathodic overpotentials, however, mineral floatability was progressively lowered although the corrosive wear of grinding media might be reduced.
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SME non-meeting paper 83-626. Manuscript July 1983. Discussion of this paper must be submitted, in duplicate, prior to July 31, 1984.
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Adam, K., Iwasaki, I. Pyrrhotite-Grinding Media Interaction and Its Effect on Floatability At Different Applied Potentials. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration 1, 81–87 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03402558
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