“…Flotation reagents play an important role in the flotation process (Jiang et al, 2010b). In recent years, various surfactants have been used as collectors for selective separation of diaspore and kaolinite in direct flotation, such as oleic acid (Huang et al, 2012), tall oil, oxidized paraffin soap (Yuehua et al, 2004;Hu et al, 2005), 733, styrene phosphate, hydroxamic acids, propyl gallate (Lyu et al, 2019) and their mixtures (Jiang et al, 2014), and novel synthetic chelates (Deng et al, 2015(Deng et al, , 2016. The selectivity of synthetic chelating collectors is stronger than that of oleic acid collectors (Gibson et al, 2017), and their functional groups are mainly composed of one or several carboxyl groups, hydroxamic acid salts and amides (Jiang et al, 2011).…”