摘要 |
A process for recovering copper-bearing mineral sulfides from a froth-floated, metallurgical concentrate by admixing the concentrate with a sufficient amount of N-mercaptoalkyl amide to depress the copper-bearing mineral sulfides during a flotation and recovering the non-floating copper-bearing mineral sulfides from the flotation process. In an embodiment, copper-bearing mineral sulfides are subjected to flotation process in the presence of a flotation agent with recovery of floated metallurgical concentrate containing copper-bearing mineral sulfides and thereafter refloating the metallurgical concentrate with admixing with N-mercaptoalkyl amide depressant to recover the non-floating copper-bearing mineral sulfides. |