AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

A process for the separation of barite and sphalerite

by Cairy C. Conover




Institution: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Department:
Year: 1912
Record ID: 1500832
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/27005


Abstract

"The present price of zinc has stimulated a greater interest in Sphalerite Barite separations than has been manifested for some time. A great many processes have been worked on and have failed for many reasons, the main one being that the physical characteristics of the ore varied so much. The process that is successful must be independent of these variations. The following process is one that depends on a chemical phenomenon and is adapted to any sphalerite-barite separation. This series of experiments was performed by the authors at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla, Mo. and was embodied in a thesis" – p. [1].