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The Froth Flotation Process:Past,Present and Future-In Brief

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The Scientific Basis of Flotation

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It is not easy to convey, in a few words, the enormous importance of the froth flotation process to the economy of the whole industrial world. It may suffice, for the present article, to quote rough estimates of the quantity of crushed ore which is treated annually by flotation — 2 x 109 tonnes — and the proportion of base-metals nowadays won by this process — 95%. Certainly, without flotation many familiar metals and inorganic raw materials would be exceedingly scarce and costly; for the high-grade ores, which could be processed by simple physical and mechanical methods, have long since been used up.

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Kitchener, J.A. (1984). The Froth Flotation Process:Past,Present and Future-In Brief. In: Ives, K.J. (eds) The Scientific Basis of Flotation. NATO ASI Series, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6926-1_2

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