In the flotation process, before or after the addition of the collector , some inorganic or organic agents that can change the mineral surface properties or the properties of the minerals and contribute to the mineral separation are collectively referred to as regulators. Such agents mainly include inhibitors, activators, and pulp pH adjusters.
Any agent that can capture the hydrophilicity of a high mineral surface is called an inhibitor; an agent that increases the hydrophobicity of the mineral surface is called an activator; and an agent that changes the pH of the slurry is called a pH adjuster. Certain inhibitors can reduce or eliminate the adsorption of the collector on the mineral surface and, in some cases, increase the hydrophilicity of the mineral surface.
Conventional inorganic modifier comprising: a variety of multivalent cations, such as calcium ions, iron ions; anionic various anions, such as fluoride, fluorosilicate, sulfide, phosphate, chromate, cyanide and the like pH adjuster inorganic acid and base.
Commonly used organic modifiers include various complexing agents, such as citric acid and its salts. The most used are tannin extract, tannin products, various starches, dextrin, animal and plant gums, and synthetic water-soluble polymer polymerization. Things and so on.
There is no strict division between activators and inhibitors. Some regulators may be inhibitors or activators depending on the conditions used. For example, sodium fluoride, when used in combination with an anionic collector, acts as an inhibitor for silicate minerals; when used in combination with a cationic collector, it acts as an activator for silicate minerals. Individual regulators, such as ferric nitrate and manganese sulfate, when flotation of hematite with sodium oleate, exhibits activation when used in small amounts and inhibits when used in large amounts.
1. Inorganic and organic inhibitors
1. Inorganic inhibitors Inhibitors and inhibited minerals are shown in Table 1.

Table 1   Inorganic inhibitor

2. Organic inhibitors
Inhibitors and inhibited minerals are shown in Table 2. [next]
Table 2 Examples of organically inhibited minerals

Second, inorganic and organic activators
The inorganic and organic activators and activated minerals are shown in Table 3.
Table 3 Inorganic and organic activators and activated minerals

River Sand Gold Separation

The STL water-jacketed Gold Concentrator is a kind of gravity separation equipment. It was developed by Changchun Gold Research Institute Co., Ltd. in 1985 and entered the market. At present, it has been used in many domestic and foreign companies. It is suitable for the recovery of single gold in placer gold, vein gold mines and polymetallic mines, instead of mercury plate operations. The addition of large single gold particles in the collected ore before flotation can further increase the recovery rate of gold mines, and it can also be used from gold-bearing mines. Separate single gold from flotation gold-copper concentrate and flotation gold concentrate.

The main indicators of this series of equipment basically reach the level of similar international products (such as Nielsen gold selectors, etc.). Compared with similar equipment at home and abroad, this series of equipment has the advantages of high cost performance, easy operation, and low maintenance costs.

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