Flotation of copper-bearing carbonaceous shale in the presence of amine type frothers
<p>Hexylamine, chloro-derivative of propylamine, and ammonium chloride were used for flotation of Permian carbonaceous copper bearing shale from the Legnica-Glogow Copper Basin region in SW Poland. It was confirmed that naturally hydrophobic shale, known as Kupferschiefer, can be made floatable by application of short chain amines as frothers. It was also established that the short chain amine chloro-derivatives as well as salmiac, the first member of the amine family, can be used as a frother for flotation of the investigated shale sample. It results from the paper that the investigated amine frothers work similarly if the comparison of the flotation results is made using their concentration expressed in relative form taking into account the critical coalescence concentration of the frother.</p>