Degradation of residual xanthate in flotation tailing …
1. Introduction. Non-ferrous metal ores are primarily beneficiated by flotation process, which generates a multitude of mineral processing wastewater (MPW) [1].The main pollutants in beneficiation wastewater are often residual organic flotation reagents and soluble metal ions (e.g., Cu, Pb, Zn, and Fe) [2], [3].Xanthate is one of the …
