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.
Common Challenges for Mineral Processing
As a metallurgist or mineral processing engineer, there are common challenges you could face in your mining operation:
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 stands out in the mining industry because of our knowledge and expertise. Not only do we offer high-quality flotation chemicals and reagents, we also have the experience to analyze issues and provide effective solutions. When you partner with Nalco Water for mining solutions, you'll get access to our industry-leading offerings, including:
Our unmatched supply network allows us to offer products that are high quality and cost effective
We have proprietary tools to measure hydrodynamics parameters in the cells and can recommend adjustments to froth flotation chemistry or dosages
Our engineers can study your flotation circuit and make recommendations for process improvements
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 with digital expertise from Stone Three. This digital technology helps you maximize productivity and optimize your flotation circuit performance.
Optimize your circuit with the predictive capabilities of Flotation 360 to help:
FreeFlote™
Addressing clay-related issues in flotation requires a program approach. Ours starts with a site-specific clay mineralogy analysis to determine the right FreeFlote technology to deliver a customized dispersant chemistry solution to help improve flotation performance and minimize clay-related losses.
Enhance flotation performance with customized chemistries to help:
Our flotation solutions include frother and collector programs for gold and silver, copper/moly, nickel, zinc and more. These solutions address your process holistically, helping you optimize your flotation circuit to achieve greater selectivity, recovery, grade—and ultimately, cost performance. Nalco Water has flotation labs around the world and more than 1,600 specialists in flotation research, development and engineering. Because of our resources, Nalco Water can deliver a robust flotation solution with unmatched service that is local to you.
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.
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.
With unparalleled expertise and cutting-edge technology, we partner with customers to deliver world-class results and optimized operations. Contact us to learn how we can help you.
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Capitalising on Coal Kinetics - Nalco Water Flotation Expert Featured in World Coal Magazine
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.
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.
Nalco Water clay dispersant—NALFLOTE™ 600.05—boosts molybdenum concentrate grade, adding $2M in annual revenue
A major copper mining operation faced challenges meeting Grade C molybdenum concentrate specifications due to clay related insoluble gangue reporting to the final concentrate. By implementing Nalco Water’s NALFLOTE 600.05 clay dispersant, the site improved molybdenum concentrate grade without sacrificing recovery, reduced scaling issues, and unlocked approximately $2M in incremental annual revenue along with $500K in operating cost savings. Download the case study to read the full success story.
