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TRANSACTIONS OF NONFERROUS METALS SOCIETY OF CHINA
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 208-213Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(11)60701-2
Keywords
serpentine; sodium hexametaphosphate; dissolution; pyrite; flotation
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2007CB613602]
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The effect of sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) on the separation of serpentine from pyrite and its mechanism were studied systematically through flotation tests, sedimentation tests, surface dissolution, zeta potential tests, adsorption measurements, and infrared spectroscopic analyses. The results show that the SHMP could significantly reduce the adverse effect of serpentine on the flotation of pyrite and make the mixed sample of pyrite and serpentine more disperse in the alkaline condition, thus improve the adsorption of xanthate on pyrite. The action mechanism of the SHMP is that it lowers the pH value at the isoelectric point of serpentine and enhances the negative charge through the dissolution of magnesium from the surface of serpentine and adsorbing on the surface of serpentine. It changes the total interaction energy between serpentine and pyrite from gravitational potential energy to repulse potential energy, according to the calculation of the EDLVO theory.
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