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Separation of impurities from kaolin clay is

accomplished by conditioning a dispersed
aqueous pulp of the clay with an anionic flotation
collector, followed by centrifugation or the like to
cause the impurities to settle from a dispersed
pulp of the clay without an intermediate froth
flotation step or a flotation waste froth is
centrifuged or hydrocloned to recover valuable
kaolin contained in the froth.

5358699
PRECIOUS METAL RECOVERY
PROCESS FROM CARBONACEOUS
ORES
Santa Monica, CA, UNITED
Clough Thomas
STATES Assigned to Ensci Inc
A process for recovering at least one precious
metal from an ore containing carbonaceous
material is disclosed. The process involves the
use of certain plant derived ortho-quinone
containing components, in particular, certain
lignin and/or tannin derived components
containing ortho-quinone functionality. Preferred
compositions comprise at least one ligno
sulfonate component containing ortho-quinone
functionality. In the process, the use of at least
one additional oxidant capable of maintaining the
ortho-quinone containing functionality in the
desired oxidation state provides for integrated
process synergy.

5372727
AUXILIARIES FOR THE FILTRATION
AND/OR DEWATERING OF MINERAL
AND COAL SUSPENSIONS
Koester Rita; Speckmann Horst; von Rybinski
Wolfgang; Koeppl Dieter
Duesseldorf,
GERMANY
Assigned
to
Henkel
Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
PCT No. PCT/EP91/01049 Sec. 371 Date Dec.
15, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 15, 1992 PCT
Filed Jun. 6, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO91/19556
PCT Pub. Date Dec. 26, 1991. Addition of alkyl
and/or alkenyl polyalkylene glycol ethers as
filtration aids in the filtration and/or dehydration
of mineral or coal suspensions reduces the
dehydration time, and filter cakes with a low
residual moisture content are obtained.

5376162
AUTOGENOUS

ROASTING
ORE

OF IRON

Cavanagh Patrick E
Toronto, CANADA
Assigned to Virgin Metals 0mula) Limited
Iron ore concentrate is converted to magnetic
gamma hematite in an autogenous roasting
operation which is self-sustaining. The iron ore
concentrate is preheated and contained magnetite
is oxidized to hematite. Hematite is reduced to
magnetite using carbon monoxide. After cooling,
the magnetite is oxidatively exothermically
converted to magnetic gamma hematite. The
thermal energy resulting from the latter step is
recycled to the preheating and reduction steps
while thermal energy resulting from the cooling
step also is recycled to those steps. The magnetic
gamma hematite may be subjected to magnetic
separation to produce a very low silica high
purity iron oxide concentrate, which may be
blended with high silica concentrate to provide a
pellet feed for making blast furnace feed pellets.

5376605
PROCESS FOR BENEFICIATING
MINNESOTA KAOLIN
Iannicelli Joseph; Pechin Joseph E Jekyll Island,
GA, UNITED STATES Assigned to Aquafine
Corporation
A process for increasing the brightness of
Minnesota kaolin clay containing chlorite and
siderite mineral impurities comprising treating
the clay with a strong mineral acid preferably in
combination with magnetic separation.

5377844
SEPARATION
OF NORMALLY
HYDROPHOBIC
PLASTIC
MATERIALS BY FROTH FLOTATION
Hwang Jiann-Yan
Houghton, MI, UNITED
STATES Assigned to Nimco Shredding Co
A targeted particulate, synthetic organic plastic
material having normally hydrophobic surface
characteristics is separated from a mixture of two
or more of such plastic materials by conditioning
the mixture of plastic materials in a flotation cell