Abstract:
According to the characteristics of high content of quartz, feldspar and mica in the tailings of tungsten and tin gravity separation from Jiangxi Province, a fluoride-free and less acid process of grinding-iron removal by magnetic separation-desliming-mica floatation-quartz and feldspar flotation separation was adopted to comprehensively recover quartz and feldspar. Magnetic separation was carried out with the sample grinding fineness of −0.074 mm content 73% and the magnetic field intensity of 1.0 T, following the fine mud of −0.020 mm removed by static-siphon method for non-magnetic products. Furthermore, the mica was floated using a combination of YF-1 (240 g/t) and dodecylamine (80 g/t) as collectors while the slurry pH was adjusted to 10.5 by Na
2CO
3. Subsequently, quartz and feldspar were separated from mica flotation tailings using Ba
2+ as the activator of quartz (120 g/t), YF-2 as the inhibitor of feldspar (250 g/t), and YF-1 as the collector (250 g/t). The flotation tailings was feldspar concentrate, and the flotation concentrate was further separated to obtain the quartz concentrate and feldspar by-products by reverse flotation feldspar process under acidic conditions. The yield of quartz concentrate was 25.30% with a SiO
2 content of 99.20%, and the recovery rate of quartz mineral was 50%. Additionally, the yield of feldspar concentrate was 22.69% with K
2O+Na
2O content of 13.16%, while the yield of feldspar by-products was 7.68% with the content of K
2O+Na
2O of 9.23%, and the total recovery of feldspar mineral was 79%. The yield of mica concentrate was 14.50%, with K
2O, Na
2O, and Al
2O
3 content of 7.65%, 1.65%, and 16.40%, respectively. The recovery rate of mica mineral was 85%.