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Flotation for Mining and Mineral Processing
Flotation Chemicals and Reagents to Maximize Profitability
Flotation is at the heart of your mineral processing business—trust it to someone who is committed to achieving the best performance at the lowest cost. Nalco Water offers a diverse portfolio of flotation programs, all of which are developed to overcome flotation process challenges encountered in a variety of mineral operations.
Froth Flotation Programs, Products, Equipment and Services
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Flotation 360™
Mineral processing optimization can feel like a moving target. Changing ore, an incorrect formulation or failing to balance recovery and grade can impact your bottom line. But Nalco Water has your solution: Flotation 360. This digital technology helps you maximize productivity and optimize your flotation circuit performance.
Optimize your circuit with the predictive capabilities of Flotation 360
- Improve performance to increase recovery and profitability
- Enhance visibility of potential impacts of future ore changes, allowing for mitigation of any challenges in advance
- Optimize reagent dosing and chemical consumption, improving the total cost of operations
- Reduce maintenance challenges such as float cell valve failures, and spend less time manually troubleshooting
Common Challenges for Mineral Processing
As a metallurgist or mineral processing engineer, there are common challenges you could face in your mining operation:
- Failing to meet recovery and grade targets
- Change in ore mineralogy
- Poor reagent efficacy
- Dynamic process water quality
These issues can affect your outputs, efficiency and profit. It's critical to have an experienced partner who can troubleshoot issues and recommend solutions that drive productivity and achieve the desired recovery and grade.
Nalco Water's Unique Position
Partners:
Our unmatched supply network allows us to offer products that are high quality and cost effective
Fundamental Science:
We have proprietary tools to measure hydrodynamics parameters in the cells and can recommend adjustments to froth flotation chemistry or dosages
Analysis:
Our engineers can study your flotation circuit and make recommendations for process improvements
Flotation for Gold, Silver, Copper and Phosphate
Gold, Silver and Copper Flotation
Flotation technology has a direct and significant impact on a copper and precious metal operation's bottom line. With the right solution, our customers can improve overall cost performance by optimizing their flotation method and circuit. Nalco Water offers a diverse range of froth flotation and collector programs to achieve the right balance of kinetics, strength, stability and selectivity. By implementing a customized solution, Nalco Water can help you improve recovery and increase the profitability of your operations.
Phosphate Flotation
After investing in planning, drilling, conveying, crushing and grinding, a phosphate operation has between five and 15 minutes to concentrate all the phosphate (PO4) mined, or they will lose it. With the proper froth flotation reagent program, our customers can improve bottom-line profitability through froth flotation improvements, such as increased tonnage, recovery, and grade in the phosphate beneficiation process. With a broad range of froth flotation solutions and concise performance control, Nalco Water can help you navigate fluctuations in ore and operation conditions, minimizing potential losses. Download the following brochure on the phosphate beneficiation process to learn more.
“Capitalising on Coal Kinetics” – Nalco Water Flotation Expert Featured in World Coal Magazine
Dr. James Counter, Nalco Water Australia, examines the opportunities for increased recovery and yield by optimizing flotation kinetics. In this article, he explores how a mechanical technology can supplement chemical solutions to maximize flotation performance.
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Solving Challenges for Mineral Flotation
Flotation Success Stories
Nalco Water Frother Program Helps Copper Concentrator to Increase Recovery and Reduce Total Cost of Operations
A copper mine in South America partnered with Nalco Water to help achieve their operational goals. The goals included improving recovery through their copper flotation circuit, increasing productivity, and ultimately reducing the total cost of operations while ensuring a safe production environment. By introducing FrothPro 507, a specific product in our diverse portfolio of frothers, Nalco Water helped the mine save on maintenance and increase recovery by 2,526 tons per year, amounting to $14.98M in value delivered to the customer. Download the case study below to learn more.
Nalco Water Froth Flotation Solution Helps Increase Recovery at a Copper and Moly Operation
A copper mine in the southwestern United States was challenged with processing a more difficult type of ore with daily variability. The customer approached Nalco Water for help with determining a treatment program that would help improve the recovery for both copper and moly. By implementing the right froth flotation program, Nalco Water was able to help improve overall recovery by 2% at the same dose as the incumbent product. The improved recovery ultimately helped to reduce the total cost of operations. Download the case study below to learn more.