US Patent Issued to BASF on March 4 for "Iron chelators as activators in alkaline flotation circuits" (New Zealander, German, Australian, Indonesian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,000, issued on March 4, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rein, Germany).

"Iron chelators as activators in alkaline flotation circuits" was invented by Adrian Mauricio Villanueva Berindoague (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Dale Barron (Aukland, New Zealand), Daniel Chipfunhu (Kwinana, Australia), Alexej Michailovski (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Scott Alexander Dickie (Auckland, New Zealand), Marta Reinoso Garcia (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Deris Prawira (Jakarta, Indonesia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method for selectively recovering a mineral from an ore applying a promoter being a substituted e...