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Article history: Utilization of N-carboxymethyl chitosan (N-CMCh) to limit the detrimental effect of serpentine on the flotation of
Received 27 December 2016 pyrite is presented in this work. Flotation results show that the presence of hydrophilic serpentine slimes results
Received in revised form 17 April 2017 in lower recoveries of the valuable pyrite. Utilization of N-carboxymethyl chitosan can limit the detrimental effect
Accepted 25 April 2017
of serpentine on the flotation of pyrite. Zeta potential measurements illustrate that N-CMCh is with negative
Available online 27 April 2017
charge and the electrostatic interaction between serpentine and N-CMCh is occurred at pH 8.5, then the serpen-
Keywords:
tine zeta potential will be changed from positive to negative, the electro-steric attraction converts into electro-
Serpentine steric repulsion between pyrite and serpentine and the pyrite recovery is improved.
Pyrite © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
N-CMCh
Flotation separation
Zeta potential
Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2. Experimental. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.1. Samples and reagents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.2. Flotation tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.3. Zeta potential tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3. Results and discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.1. Flotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.2. Zeta potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
1. Introduction the most commonly used depressant for separation of sulfide minerals
from magnesium silicate minerals. CMC depress serpentine slime parti-
Serpentine often associates with many metal sulfide ore deposits. In cles from sulfide minerals by adsorption on serpentine surface due to
sulfide minerals flotation, many studies demonstrated that serpentine high negative charge density (Edwards et al., 1980; Bremmell et al.,
slime coatings can occur on the valuable mineral surfaces through the 2005; Wellham et al., 1992).
electrostatic attraction, reduce the hydrophobicity of the sulfide particle N-CMCh (see Fig. 1) is a kind of chemical composition, which uses
and then depress mineral flotation (Basile et al., 2010; Pietrobon et al., carboxymethyl replace hydrogen of \\NH2 of chitosan, and consists of
1997; Feng et al., 2012; Feng et al., 2013). Therefore, efficient flotation \\CH2COOH groups as CMC (Upadhyaya et al., 2013). In the past de-
separation of sulfide minerals from magnesium silicate minerals re- cades, much N-CMCh has been synthesized and used in medicine,
quires selective depressants. Previous studies have shown that CMC is chemical industry, biology, environmental protection and many other
areas (Upadhyaya et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2007; Mishra et al., 2011;
⁎ Corresponding authors. Yin et al., 2007), and chitosan has also been explored in the minerals in-
E-mail addresses: 145601011@csu.edu.cn (C. Liu), qmfeng@mail.csu.edu.cn (Q. Feng). dustry, such as Cu-Pb sulfides and Pb-Fe sulfides separation (Huang et
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3.1. Flotation
4. Conclusion