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Beneficiation of iron ores by froth flotation

US4132635A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 13, 1977
Grant dateJan 2, 1979
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Expiry dateJan 13, 1997

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  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB03D2203/04
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Iron oxides of finely-ground, low grade, siliceous oxidized iron ores can be effectively floated from the silica-bearing gangue in the presence of slime by conditioning an aqueous pulp of the ore with a reagent formed by incorporating a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt into an aqueous solution of an alkali metal silicate prior to subjecting the pulp to froth flotation in the presence of an anionic type collector.

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