Africa is home to an abundance of natural resources, including platinum, copper, iron, diamonds, silver, gold and uranium; however, mining and processing these resources can be challenging for operators on the continent looking to run efficient mines. International specialty chemicals company Clariant presented a new study at industry conference Flotation 2019, in Cape Town, South Africa, earlier this month, examining the efficiency of its new range of chemical collectors for metallurgical recovery compared with that of traditional collectors in mineral flotation.