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Increase in contrast of wettability of the sulfide minerals in Copper-Zinc ores during flotation and flocculation

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Consideration is given to the influence exerted by styrene-butadiene copolymer on wettability of the surface of pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite as well as on flocculation and floatability of mineral slimes. It is established how pH and styrene-butadiene copolymer combined with xanthate affect the change in hydrophoby of the sulfides in question and the processes of flocculation and flotation. The conditions are determined for the improvement in contrast of properties of separated minerals.

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  1. Institute of Problems of Complex Development of Bowels, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. E. Vigdergauz, E. A. Shrader, L. M. Sarkisova, I. N. Kuznetsova & A. I. Dorofeev

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Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 3, pp. 95–100 May–June, 2004.

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Vigdergauz, V.E., Shrader, E.A., Sarkisova, L.M. et al. Increase in contrast of wettability of the sulfide minerals in Copper-Zinc ores during flotation and flocculation. J Min Sci 40, 304–309 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10913-005-0011-6

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