ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,982, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).
"Collector composition" was invented by Alexej Michailovski (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Daniel Chipfunhu (Kwinana, Australia) and Scott Alexander Dickie (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a collector composition for the beneficiation of lithium silicates and magnesium silicates from an ore comprising different silicate minerals, their use in flotation processes and a method for the beneficiation of lithium silicates- and magnesium silicates-containing minerals using said collector composition."
The paten...