The physical separation technologies of mineral exploit the differences between properties such as gravity, magnetic susceptibility or surface electrical conductivity.
The separation efficacy suffers when the feed constitutes finer particles and coated with surface contaminant resulting in production rate and product purity issues.

Cytec Industries has been developing chemical enhancement technologies for physical separation. The major advantages of chemical enhancement technology to magnetic and electrostatic separation include: simple extension to existing magnetic and electrostatic separation technology to produce quality products, ability to produce comparable product in quality with cost effectiveness compared to incumbent technologies, removal of impurity minerals over wide size range, removing non-magnetic impurities, reducing the recirculation load in cases of electrostatic separation and providing similar process flow combines with sustainable robust process.

This webevent will exemplify minerals systems including kaolin, carbonate, talc and heavy minerals.

Sustainability is a critical topic in the mining industry. This is due to the significant growth in demand for minerals and metals, shortage of mineral and human resources, stringent regulatory and environmental concerns, and inadequate technical solutions to many of the new challenges.

The mining industry uses a large amount of diverse chemicals which are also subject to increased scrutiny in terms of environmental footprint. This Web event explores the toxicity, transportation, environmental, and regulatory aspects of the traditionally used mining chemicals. Examples of “greener”, sustainable alternatives to these traditional chemicals that provide equivalent or better metallurgical performance will also be discussed.