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    Influence of liberation on bubble-particle attachment time in flotation

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    Authors
    Albijanic, Boris
    Nimal Subasinghe, G.
    Bradshaw, D.
    Nguyen, A.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Albijanic, B. and Nimal Subasinghe, G. and Bradshaw, D. and Nguyen, A. 2015. Influence of liberation on bubble-particle attachment time in flotation. Minerals Engineering. 74: pp. 156-162.
    Source Title
    Minerals Engineering
    DOI
    10.1016/j.mineng.2014.08.004
    ISSN
    0892-6875
    School
    Dept of Mining Eng & Metallurgical Eng
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22328
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    Abstract

    Flotation is controlled by the bubble–particle attachment mechanism which depends on the particle surface properties i.e., the particle composition, the surface liberation of valuable minerals and collector adsorption. This paper focuses on using the bubble–particle attachment method to understand the factors affecting attachment time. The attachment time measurements were performed with sized concentrates obtained by flotation of a copper sulphide ore (Northparkes Mine, Australia) in a mechanically agitated batch flotation cell. Quantitative mineral liberation analysis was used to determine the mineralogy of flotation concentrates. The results showed that the higher the amount of highly and moderately liberated copper minerals in flotation concentrates, the lower the attachment time. By using attachment time and collector dosage, we defined a non-linear empirical correlation to estimate Cu grade. The proposed empirical correlation has shown a satisfactory agreement between the calculated and the experimental Cu grade. These results showed that attachment time measurements are related to the Cu grade. This relationship may be used in the future to develop a practical method (without assays) to monitor changing grade for a specified system (flotation plant). It also may be possible to infer potential grade if mineralogy samples are available, but not enough samples are available for conventional flotation tests. However this requires a significant amount of further work.

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