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Ruiqi Xie1,2, Zhihui Zhao1,2, Xun Wang1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Complex Nonferrous Metal Resources Clean Utilization, Faculty of Land Resource Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China.
Abstract:
Fluorite and calcite were separated with nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) as a depressant. The single mineral flotation experiment confirmed that with 40 mg/L NaOL and 80 mg/L NTA, the fluorite recovery and calcite recovery were 24.37 and 94.13%, respectively, at pH 9. Meanwhile, in the fluorite-calcite binary mixed ore flotation experiment, the calcite recovery and fluorite recovery were 75.50 and 26.84%, respectively, and the CaCO3 and CaF2 grade in concentrate was 74.32 and 25.61%, respectively. The results confirmed that NTA could be used as a depressant to selectively inhibit fluorite flotation. The mechanism study illustrated that NTA was selectively reacted with fluorite by chemical interaction between O of NTA and Ca of fluorite. The adsorption of NTA on fluorite will impede the interaction between fluorite and NaOL. NTA could adsorb on fluorite in three ways, while the dominant two ways were the complex between double O of NTA and Ca of fluorite in a vertical model and the complex between double O of NTA and Ca of fluorite in a horizontal model.
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