Phosphate being one of the three major nutrients required for agricultural plant growth usually presents as collophane in China. Since fine phosphate and other gauge minerals associate with each other and form intergrowth, the beneficiation of collophane is extremely difficult. In this paper, the flotation strategy for a low grade collophane ore from Guizhou province in China was studied in detail. Direct, reverse and direct-reverse combined flotation sheets were employed to collophane flotation. The results reveal that direct-reverse flotation is a suitable flotation flow sheet for this collophane ore. With direct-reverse flotation sheet, the grade of P2O5 in concentrate is 33%, which is improved by 3% comparing direct flotation and P2O5 recovery could achieve 80%. In addition, content of MgO decreased to 0.9%, which satisfied the requirement of wet-process phosphoric acid.

Phosphate is a typical oxide ore characterizing that generating abundant froth during flotation. In this research a new flotation machine was employed in the flotation of phosphate. Comparing to regular flotation machine, in the reverse flotation of dolomite the recovery and grade of MgO has no significance improvement. While, in the case of reverse flotation of silicon dioxide, the new flotation machine has significance advantage. In 5 minutes of flotation time, the yield of froth is 20.66% with new machine, which equals to yield using regular machine under 8 minutes. The flotation time has been shorten by new machine. In addition, the recovery of silicon dioxide improved by 6% and the grade of silicon dioxide in phosphate concentrate decreased by 1.3% comparing the regular flotation machine. The results demonstrate that new flotation machine is more suitable and efficient for phosphate flotation

A Mo middling has been obtained through Cu-Mo bulk flotation. In order to further enrich molybdenite and separate pyrite form this middling. A series flotation tests were conducted to concentrate Mo. Important parameters including regrinding fineness, CaO dosage and cleaning flotation stages were optimized to enhance Mo enrichment. In addition, a close-circuit flotation test was conducted under optimum parameters and a Mo concentrate with 22.92% of Mo grade and 93.75% of Mo recovery was obtained, which satisfied the plant requirement.