Adam Jordens

TL;DR: The only rare earth bearing minerals that have been extracted on a commercial scale are bastnasite, monazite, and xenotime, and these minerals may be beneficiated using gravity, magnetic, electrostatic and flotation separation techniques as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of reagent structure on the performance of these collectors was investigated for the flotation of pure, fully liberated, malachite and quartz, and the results showed that benzohydroxamic acid and C8 alkyl hydroxamates were the most selective collectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used electrophoretic and electroacoustic zeta potential measurements to identify the interaction between bastnasite and several different collectors and compared the results of these measurements were then compared with micro-flotation of bituminite and quartz, a common rare earth gangue mineral.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of Custamine 8113 (collector) and Norlig-H (depressant) on the separation of muscovite from gangue minerals was investigated.