Developing flotation reagents for niobium oxide recovery from carbonatite Nb ores

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 36-38, Issue , 2012, Pages 111-118

  Ni, Xiao ^a   Parrent, Marc ^a   Cao, Mingli ^a   Huang, Liming ^b   Bouajila, Ahmed ^b   Liu, Qi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b COREM ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Anionic collectors; Hydroxamic acid; Pyrochlore; Sodium metaphosphate

Indexed keywords

CARBONATITES; FLOTATION DEPRESSANTS; FLOTATION REAGENTS; FLOTATION TESTS; GANGUE MINERALS; HIGH PURITY; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; PYROCHLORES;

CALCITE; FLOTATION; NIOBIUM OXIDE; ORES; ORGANIC ACIDS; QUARTZ; RECOVERY; SILICATES; SODIUM;

ORE TREATMENT;

EID: 84867748624     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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