Abstract
The handbook is devoted to review of markets of chemicals, used as flotation
agents. The handbook includes data on 11 most widespread agents, contains 104
pages, including 81 Tables. As information sources, we used data of Rosstat,
Inter-state Committee on Statistics of CIS countries, Federal Customs Service
of Russia, official domestic railage statistic of JSC RZhD (former Ministry of
Railway Transport of Russia), sectoral (industrial) and regional press, annual
and quarterly reports of companies, data from web-sites of company-producers,
as well as State Standards and scientific-research publications in field of
concentration of mineral resources.
Information is presented by the following manner: 1) properties of agent; 2)
methods of production; 3) dynamics and structure of production; 4) foreign
trade; 5) balance and structure of consumption; 6) technical requirements; 7)
consumption of agent by mining-concentrating companies; 8) contact information
on producers of agent.
Statistic data on production are presented for the period of 2001-2006.