Abstract:As environmental concerns grow, flotation researches, particularly for the recovery of fine-grained ores, encourage "bioflotation" studies, in which biological origin alternatives are used instead of traditional flotation reactives. While bioflotation applications starting from the pyrite mineral have spread to many carbonate and oxide minerals over time, and biomaterials used as a bioreagent have diversified from the microorganism itself to its metabolites and even cell components.
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