The non-sulphide minerals are classified in three classes; the first, the non-polar, non-gulphide minerals, as coals, anthracite, graphite, sulnher, talc and sericite; the second, polar easy-floatable or anion-floatable non-sulphide, as barite, fluorite, calcite, magnesite, dolomite, scheelite, apatite, cassiterite, chromite, hematite, rhodochrosite and psilomelane etc.; the third, polar cation-floatable non-sulphide, as quartz, felspers, mica, aragonite, augite, hornblend, kaolinite and other silicates.
The flotation of above three classes of non-sulphide minerals is discussed and practical results of the experiment On graphite and native sulpher from first class, on barite, fluorite, calcite and scheelite, from second class are abstracted in nine tables.
This is only an abstract of our experiments on practical ores at the Dressing Laboratory, Kyoto Imperial University.
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