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Xanthates are the most widely used collectors for flotation of sulfide minerals. It has been estimated that about half of the organic reagents (including xanthate) added to the flotation circuits are consumed, while the remaining half are discharged into the plant tailing. The residual xanthate in the flotation tailing can cause environmental issues through contaminating of the nearby water resources as a result of poor design of the tailings dams. In this communication two modified bentonite adsorbents, namely acid-activated (H-Be) and aluminum-pillared (Al-Be) bentonite, were synthesized and used for the removal of the residual xanthate (potassium amyl xanthate) from the synthetic and real solutions.

Al-Be was found superior to H-Be in terms of adsorption performance and under optimum conditions (adsorbent dosage: 7500 mg/L; xanthate concentration: 2000 mg/L; pH = 12.2; time = 45 min) and more than 99 …