Clariant Mining Services - Chemicals for Mineral Treatment

Clariant Mining Services is a leading global supplier of chemicals and integrated services to the mining, explosives and fertilizer industries. Our products and services provide reliable explosive emulsions at the blasting site, improve the comminution and beneficiation of a wide range of ores, control dust at mine sites, and improve the stability and quality of fertilizers.

We have built a reputation for providing added value to our customers' operations and products, and for providing a rapid global response to customer requirements.

Technical centres and regional offices, strategically located in Europe, Southern Africa, North America, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region, are the core of our ability to provide ground-breaking innovative solutions using superior speciality chemicals.

Chemical management services

Clariant Mining Services' chemical management services maximise value creation through rigorous chemical selection and performance management, managed inventories and tanks, process optimisation and a focus on the reduction of each customer's total cost of operations.

Mineral processing design, application and management

Clariant Mining Services adds value through the design, application and management of collectors, frothers, wetting agents, depressants, activators and modifiers, dispersants, filer aids, grinding aids, scale inhibitors and corrosion inhibitors.

Collectors for iron-ore reverse flotation

Clariant Mining Services' range of Flotigam® collectors can aid in the reverse flotation of all types of iron ore, including haematite, magnetite and itaberite.

Frothers for industrial mineral recovery

Flotinor® collectors and Flotanol® frothers are used for the recovery of a range of industrial minerals, including:

• Alkali salts - potash, sylvinite, schoenite and kieserite
• Silica bearing minerals - feldspar, talc, kaolin and quartz
• Earth alkali bearing minerals - fluorspar, barite and scheelite
• Reverse or direct flotation of calcite
• Reverse or direct flotation of phosphates (phosphorite or apatite)
• Oxide minerals - pyrochlore (niobium), rutile and cassiterite

Collectors and frothers for sulfidic ores

Clariant Mining Services' Hostaflot ® collectors and Flotanol frothers for sulfidic ores are formulated for optimum selectivity and are effective with ores containing:

• Base metals - copper, copper-molybdenum, zinc, lead, nickel, cobalt and polymetals
• Platinum group minerals
• Precious metals - gold and silver

Frothers for coal and graphite

Clariant Mining Services offers Montanol® frothers for fine to course-grain coal and graphite.

Mining dust-control services

Dust from mining operations can give rise to a number of challenges, the most obvious being environmental pollution of the mine site and nearby communities. There is also the potential of damage to equipment, safety risks due to poor visibility, increased maintenance of unpaved roads and the combustion risk from coal dust.

Clariant Mining Services can offer a tailored dust-control programme encompassing chemical dust-control agents, application techniques and specialised equipment, and performance management through frequent airborne dust monitoring.

Polymer emulsions or surfactants for mining dust control

Arkomon® polymer emulsions or surfactants are selected for maximum dust control effect and minimum environmental impact. Application of the dust control solution is carefully controlled to minimise the use of both chemical and water. Performance is managed to ensure compliance with local clean air requirements / legislation.

Explosive emulsifiers

Clariant Mining Services has many years of experience in modern emulsifier technology and has established itself as a leading partner for the blasting industry.

Our emulsifier technology applies to both packaged and bulk ammonium nitrate (AN) based explosive emulsions. The products grant our customers confidence in the blast success by providing reliable emulsions, with long-term stability against thermal and mechanical stress and constant cap sensitivity.

Fertilizer additives

Clariant Mining Services adds value to products through the design and application of anti-caking / anti-dust agent, granulation aids, colourants, corrosion inhibitors, wetting agents and defoamers.

Our Fertala® fertilizer additives significantly improve the stability and quality of our customers' end products during production, handling, storage and transportation in all application media, whether liquids, prills or granules.

Mining health, safety and the environment

Clariant Mining Services strives to operate in a safe manner - causing no accidents, while respecting the environment and efficiently when delivering its range of products and services.