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How are copper and molybdenum separated from a copper-molybdenum concentrate?
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To separate copper and molybdenum from a copper-molybdenum concentrate, the industry utilizes flotation processes.
Following the initial crushing and grinding of the ore, these processes employ a wide variety of reagents to effectively separate the metallic minerals from gangue minerals, or to isolate the molybdenum and copper from one another.1