Reagents in Mineral Technology

Provides comprehensive coverage of both basic as well as applied aspects of reagents utilized in the minerals industry. This outstanding, single-source reference opens with an explicit account of flotation fundamentals, including coverage of wetting phenomena, mineral/water interfacial phenomena, flotation chemistry, and flocculation and dispersion of mineral suspensions.

It then discusses flotation of sulfide and nonsulfide minerals, with attention to formation of clithiolates, formation of metal thiol compounds, application of fatty acids, sulfosuccinic acids, amines, and other collectors.

Reagents in Mineral Technology also reviews adsorption of surfactants on minerals... details adsorption of polymers... and considers the chemistry and application of chelation agents in minerals separations.

Additional chapters consider grinding aids, frothers, inorganic and polymeric depressants, dewatering and filtering aids, analytical techniques, and much more. Unique in its depth of coverage, Reagents in Mineral Technology will prove an invaluable reference for mineral engineers and processors; analytical, surface, colloid, and physical chemists; petroleum, petrochemical, metallurgical, and mining engineers; and for use in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in these and related fields.