Flotation of gold and goldbearing ores
· · Flotation of copper–gold ores. For the bulk flotation of copper minerals and gold from supergene copper ores, it is normal practice to add a xanthate as the primary collector and dithiophosphate as a secondary collector (Bulatovic, 1997). This combination gives satisfactory results in respect of copper concentrate grade and copper and gold recoveries. When pyrite is present in the .