The deliberate choice of the title "The Business of Flotation" underscores the authors’ contention that while flotation is a technological process, its application is fundamentally a business strategy for extracting paymetals from mined ore. This comprehensive, easy-to read book goes beyond the traditional approaches, emphasizing asset management optimisation and addressing the performance gap in concentrator operations. The authors employ an integrated method, incorporating sampling, mineralogy, semiconductor theory, electrochemistry, and flotation testing, to provide practical insights for achieving peak plant performance. The final chapters cover statistically designed plant-scale trials, offering a roadmap for implementing improvements and increasing profitability. As the industry faces challenges like low ore grade and mineralogical complexity, this multidisciplinary approach emerges as a forward-thinking solution for success in paymetal extraction operations: a blueprint that amounts to “the business of flotation”.

A portion of the sales from The Business of Flotation will be used to create a travel fund in honour of the late Dee Bradshaw, emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town. The fund will be used to contribute towards the travel costs of international PhD students to attend and present their research at the annual Conference of Metallurgy and Materials (COM) of the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM (MetSoc).