45K views · 310 reactions |  by Jesse Ding, Senior Metallurgist at SGS One of the major activities of our Minerals team is the process and flowsheet development for recovery and purification of minerals. In this video we show a froth flotation process, which is used to separate and recover a zinc mineral from ore. | SGS | Facebook

📝 What is flotation and how to optimize it? 📝 Flotation is a selective separation process by attaching water-repelling of hydrophobic particles to rising air bubbles to form a particle-rich froth on the suspension surface, which flows over the lip of the cell (Nguyen, 2007). 📝 For almost a century, flotation has served as the backbone of the mining industry. It has undergone substantial development in numerous other domains, including the recycling of wastepaper, water treatment, and the sepa