On November 8, 2024, the establishment ceremony of Jumper Resources Utilization Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jumper Resources"), a subsidiary of Jumper Technology, jointly established by Jumper Technology and Central South University, and the 2025 business management meeting of Jumper Resources were successfully held at the headquarters of Jumper Technology.

Zeng Junlan, Chairman of Jumper Technology, Min Xiangchuan, General Manager of Jumper Technology, and heads of various functional departments attended the meeting. The meeting announced that, Min Xiangchuan was appointed as the Chairman of Jumper Resources, Jiang Zebin as the General Manager of Jumper Resources, and Hu Wenbang as the Technical Director of Jumper Resources. 。

Jumper Resources is a high-tech chemical enterprise integrating research, production, and sales. The company takes mineral selection agents as its core business, conducting research and development and transformation of achievements in "mining agents," and is committed to improving mineral selection indicators for mining enterprises. The establishment of the subsidiary marks a solid step forward in the innovation of Jumper Technology and Central South University in the field of mineral selection agents, jointly opening a new chapter in in-depth school-enterprise cooperation.

1. Flotation Principle and Advantages

The flotation principle is to separate ores by utilizing the differences in the physicochemical properties of mineral surfaces that is, in the flotation process, flotation reagents are added to the pulp to improve and adjust the floatability of minerals, so that many minerals that do not have natural floatability can be changed from unfloatable to floatable, or vice versa, after the action of flotation reagents.

Flotation is one of the most important mineral processing methods, with advantages such as wide application range, strong adaptability, high separation efficiency, and facilitating the comprehensive recovery of mineral resources. According to statistics, 90% of non-ferrous metal ores are processed using the flotation method. In addition, the flotation method is also widely used in the selection of rare metals, precious metals, ferrous metals, non-metals, coal and other mineral raw materials, as well as water purification and wastewater treatment.

2. Central South University: Strong Research Strength

Central South University is one of the first key universities to be built under the "Project 211" of the state, a key university jointly built by the Ministry of Education and provinces under the "Project 985," and a "Double First-Class" university. It possesses the world's most complete "geology, mining, mineral processing, metallurgy, materials, processing, and manufacturing" non-ferrous metal discipline system chain. Metallurgical engineering and mining engineering rank among the top 2 globally in the Soft Science World Top Universities ranking.

In June 2024, at the National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, and the Conference of Academicians of the Two Academies, Five scientific research achievements of Central South University won the 2023 National Science and Technology Award Among them, 3 projects were led by Central South University, and 2 projects were participated in.

3. Jumper's "One Mine, One Medicine" Approach Solves Mineral Processing Challenges

Jumper Technology has 60+ patents, 40+ software copyrights, and 5+ self-owned trademarks. It has been awarded the title of National High-tech Enterprise, National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, Technological Innovation Small Giant Enterprise, and Hunan Province Specialized, Refined, and New Small and Medium-sized Enterprise. The company adopts a "one mine, one medicine" strategy, providing mines with high-quality, environmentally friendly, and efficient mineral selection agents, meeting the unique value-added services of pre-selection and waste disposal of mine raw ores + continuous development of flotation agents.

 

Jumper Technology Mineral Selection Agents

Low-temperature K series collectors

have good selectivity for scheelite, fluorite, bauxite, and apatite and strong adaptability to modifiers (sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, water glass, organic inhibitors). It has good water solubility, foaming properties, low reagent dosage, and environmentally friendly, clean, and non-toxic characteristics. Compared with market prices, our agents have a price advantage, which can significantly reduce flotation production costs.

YS inhibitor

can be used for copper-lead separation, lead-zinc separation, molybdenum-bismuth separation, copper-molybdenum separation, zinc-sulfur separation, etc., including the separation of all sulfide ores and arsenic. It has good water solubility, strong inhibition, no foaming, low reagent dosage, and low toxicity. Compared with market prices, our agents have high cost performance and superior product performance.

Benzohydroxamic acid collector

The company owns the fully independent intellectual property rights of a collector for difficult-to-select minerals such as smithsonite, wolframite, scheelite, and cassiterite. This product has excellent selectivity and collecting ability, especially for fine cassiterite flotation, with ideal separation indicators. At the same time, this product also has high efficiency and environmental protection characteristics.

 

Application Cases

1. A tin mine in Yunnan

Using Bq collector for fine cassiterite flotation

In sulfide ores, when the original ore contains 0.359% Sn, a tin concentrate yield of 2.47%, a grade of 11.90%, a recovery rate of 81.82%, and a flotation tailings grade of 0.067% were obtained.

In oxide ores, when the original ore contains 0.275% Sn, a tin concentrate yield of 3.00%, a grade of 7.39%, a recovery rate of 80.58%, and a flotation tailings grade of 0.055% were obtained.

In 400t/d cassiterite flotation, when the original ore contains 0.893% Sn, a tin concentrate yield of 35.84%, a grade of 2.081%, a recovery rate of 83.84%, and a flotation tailings grade of 0.229% were obtained.

Using the Bq collector as a collector for fine cassiterite flotation, compared with the combined reagents used on site (TL-1, SN-2, and P86), it has stronger collecting ability and better selectivity, less reagent consumption, about 2% higher flotation recovery rate, and lower flotation production cost.

2. A certain energy company in Xinjiang (carbonate fluorite ore)

This mine uses NG-1 as a fluorite collector. The single-stage grinding fineness of -200 accounts for 61%. The rough concentrate is not ground. A flotation process of one rough selection, two sweeping selections, and seven fine selections is used. The closed-loop process can obtain fluorite concentrate CaF ₂ Grade: 96.49%, recovery rate: 86.07%.

The fluorite concentrate after flotation, due to CaCO ₃ The content is too high (2.69%), by using acid leaching, the fluorite concentrate CaF ₂ The grade is increased to 97.80%, the recovery rate is 96.85%, and the total recovery rate of fluorite is 83.36%.

3. A certain zinc oxide mine in Inner Mongolia

For this zinc oxide mine, a highly efficient beneficiation agent CA-1 with strong collecting ability and good selectivity was used to selectively collect low-grade zinc oxide minerals. In the laboratory small-scale closed-circuit test, the zinc concentrate grade of 23.30% and zinc recovery rate of 73.46% were obtained, achieving good flotation test indexes and meeting the expected requirements of the flotation test. This truly solved the problem of recycling and utilizing low-grade zinc oxide ore.

The advantages of this technology are: no de-sludging, stable flotation phenomenon, simple and flexible process structure, advanced indexes, realizing effective flotation recovery of high oxidation, high clay difficult-to-treat zinc oxide ore.

Join hands to seek common development, and achieve win-win results through industry-university-research integration. Central South University is one of the closest strategic partners of Jumper Technology in industry-university-research cooperation. For many years, the two sides have jointly built a school-enterprise postgraduate joint training base and carried out extensive cooperation in the field of intelligent sorting, which has laid a solid foundation for Jumper Resources' school-enterprise cooperation.

In the future, Jumper Resources will rely on the strong scientific research strength of Central South University, the first-class team of technical consultants, and the industrial base of Jumper Technology to deepen and accelerate the research and development process of new beneficiation agent technology, transform scientific research achievements into productivity, further enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise, and help the beneficiation agent industry to develop better.