Sodium Ethyl Xanthate
Sodium Ethyl Xanthate is the shortest-chain member of the xanthate collector family in routine industrial use. The two-carbon chain makes it the most selective and the weakest collector of the series, which is why it is chosen where separation between closely associated sulphides matters more than absolute recovery — typically in copper and lead circuits treating readily floatable minerals. Allzone quotes this material per enquiry: grade, packing, origin, documentation and Incoterm are decided in your quotation, not fixed by this page.
At a glance
- Product
- Sodium Ethyl Xanthate
- Grades
- Pelletised presentation · Granular or powder presentation +2 more
- Typical applications
- Copper sulphide flotation circuits · Lead and zinc concentrator collector duties · Gold flotation where sulphide association carries the values
- Packaging
- Packaging confirmed at quotation

Handling notice. This product requires review of the supplier technical data sheet and safety data sheet before purchase and use. Request both documents for the exact grade under consideration.
- • Certificate of Analysis is provided against the confirmed shipment, grade and batch.
- • Manufacturer TDS and SDS are subject to grade and supplier confirmation and are available on request.
- • Grades, packaging and origin above are indicative sourcing options and are confirmed at quotation.
Available grades from container-direct sourcing
Pelletised presentation
Dust and handling behaviour reviewed against your dosing system at quotation
Granular or powder presentation
Presentation confirmed against producer documentation for the material offered
Active content conventions
Stated in the convention your metallurgical reporting uses
Packaging and storage format
Agreed per enquiry against your intake and reagent-store arrangements
Typical applications
- Copper sulphide flotation circuits
- Lead and zinc concentrator collector duties
- Gold flotation where sulphide association carries the values
- Nickel and polymetallic sulphide separation
- Metallurgical laboratory and pilot-plant reagent testing
Why Canadian buyers choose us
- Specification, grade and documentation confirmed in writing against producer data before order confirmation
- Technical data sheet, safety data sheet and certificate of analysis requested for the exact material offered
- Specification-led sourcing — no assumed values and no substituted grades
- Freight arranged across Ontario, Quebec and Western Canada
- Quantities reviewed per enquiry, from trial lots through to full container loads
Typical industries served
Technical & procurement detail
What sodium ethyl xanthate does in a flotation circuit+
It adsorbs onto sulphide mineral surfaces and renders them hydrophobic so that air bubbles can carry them into the froth, while gangue remains wetted and reports to tailings. Collector choice, dosage point and dosage rate are metallurgical decisions taken against your own ore, grind and water chemistry, and are established by trial rather than published here.
What decides the grade you actually need+
The ore and the mineral you are trying to float decide the collector before anything else, because chain length trades selectivity against collecting strength. After that, the presentation your dosing system can handle — pellet, granular or powder — the active content convention your metallurgy reports use, decomposition and storage behaviour, and the documentation your site requires decide the material quoted. Reagent selection is confirmed by plant or laboratory trial on your own ore, never assumed from a catalogue page.
Sodium Ethyl Xanthate within the xanthate collector family+
The xanthate collectors form one chemical family in which the alcohol chain and the alkali cation change collecting power and selectivity. Short-chain xanthates are more selective and weaker collectors; longer chains collect more strongly and less selectively. Each xanthate on this catalogue therefore has its own canonical page because it is a different chemical with a different metallurgical behaviour, not a grade of another. Pellet, powder and flake presentations, solution strengths and packaging formats are handled inside each record and are never published as separate pages. Dithiophosphates, thionocarbamates and frothers are different reagent classes with their own pages.
Specification conventions and how to state yours+
Suppliers report active content, solution strength, particle presentation and impurity limits in different conventions, and the numbers are not interchangeable between them. State the convention your specification uses along with the property window you actually need, and comparison is made like for like against producer data for the grade offered.
What this page does not state+
This page asserts no purity, assay, active content, concentration, moisture, pH, density, dosage rate, performance figure, approval, registration, certification, origin, packing, minimum quantity, availability, lead time or price. Every commercially meaningful value is taken from producer documentation for the exact grade offered and confirmed in writing before order.
Sourcing and origin+
Allzone sources this material through producer channels and quotes it per enquiry. Origin, production route and shipping point are selected against your technical requirement, quantity, documentation need and destination, and are stated in the offer rather than fixed by this page. Freight, discharge point and packaging format move landed cost, so quotations are compared delivered to your plant.
Documentation supplied with an offer+
Technical data sheet, safety data sheet and certificate of analysis for the exact grade offered are requested from the producer and shared with the quotation. Handling, storage, incompatibility and personal-protection requirements are treated as SDS questions for the specific grade rather than figures published here. Where a declaration matters to your application — food contact, cosmetic, potable water, feed or regulatory — it is confirmed for that grade and intended use rather than assumed from this page.
How Allzone quotes this+
Send the process it goes into, the function you need it to perform, the property window your specification calls for in your own convention, the annual and per-shipment quantity, the packaging format your intake can receive, the documentation required per shipment and the delivery province or port. Several materials can be listed in one enquiry and reviewed together rather than split into separate requests.
Frequently asked questions
Does Allzone publish a price for sodium ethyl xanthate?+
No. Price, minimum quantity, origin, packing and lead time depend on the grade, the volume and the destination, and are confirmed at quotation. Nothing on this page is an offer.
Which grades or presentations can be quoted?+
Pelletised presentation, Granular or powder presentation, Active content conventions, Packaging and storage format are handled inside this single product record. Grades, concentrations and applications of one material are not published as separate pages; the grade offered and its published data are confirmed in the quotation.
What documentation is available for sodium ethyl xanthate?+
Technical data sheet, safety data sheet and certificate of analysis for the exact grade offered are requested from the producer and shared with the quotation. Handling, storage, incompatibility and personal-protection requirements are treated as SDS questions for the specific grade rather than figures published here. Where a declaration matters to your application — food contact, cosmetic, potable water, feed or regulatory — it is confirmed for that grade and intended use rather than assumed from this page.
Can sodium ethyl xanthate be supplied into Ontario and the GTA?+
Delivery and logistics into Ontario, Quebec and the rest of Canada are reviewed per enquiry alongside the rest of the offer. We publish no stock, inventory or delivery-window guarantee on this page.
Technical knowledge for Sodium Ethyl Xanthate — Bulk B2B Supply | Allzone
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