Extraction in Mineral Processing: Flotation and Chemical Treatment of Minerals
A special issue of Separations (ISSN 2297-8739). This special issue belongs to the section "Purification Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 453
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mineral processing; selective grinding theory and technology
Interests: metal resource recovery
Interests: mineral-metallurgy-materials integration; metallurgical engineering; separation; mineral functional materials; minerals processing; recycling of industrial solid wastes; industrial water treatment
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Dear Colleagues,
Mineral resources are a crucial material foundation for economic and social development. With the continuous global industrialization, the demand for mineral resources is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades. How to coordinate the development and utilization of mineral resources with environmental protection is a common development problem in the world. The goal of mineral processing science and technology is to develop the complete recycling and clean utilization of mineral resources to save the limited mineral resources.
Traditional mineral processing technology cannot effectively solve the separation problem of poor and fine miscellaneous mineral resources. The poor endowment of mineral resources, increasing demand for resources, increasingly strict requirements of the ecological environment and other factors put forward higher requirements for mineral processing technology. In addition, as an essential part of the industrial chain in the field of resources, there is still a series of environmental problems in the mineral processing industry, such as large emissions of waste rock, tailings and mineral processing wastewater, dust and noise pollution. Therefore, how to achieve energy saving and emission reductions, green development, and minimize the impact of mineral resources development on the ecological environment is an urgent problem to be solved in the mineral processing discipline. To this end, scientists and technicians engaged in mineral resources separation and adjacent disciplines have extensively studied the fundamental theories and technologies of related disciplines and interdisciplinary fields of comprehensive utilization of mineral resources, and gradually formed technical fields such as "mineral enrichment, separation and comprehensive utilization", "mineral extraction", "mineral materials", and "combination of beneficiation and metallurgy".
This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics: (1) flotation chemistry (flotation electrochemistry, flotation solution chemistry, and flotation surface and colloid chemistry); (2) molecular structure design, synthesis and application of flotation reagents; (3) mixed use of flotation reagents and their synergistic effects; (4) biochemical extraction of mineral resources; (5) leaching and extraction of minerals; (6) chemical treatment of minerals and enhancement of their separation process; and (7) roasting and efficient separation of mineral raw materials.
Dr. Jianwen Yu
Dr. Tong Yue
Dr. Bingbing Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flotation reagent
- flotation theory and process
- chemical beneficiation
- leaching
- mineral roasting
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