An additional recovery of coking coal middlings can be utilized for increasing of the concentrate yield of coking coal. A combined flow sheet of comminution and flotation can realize this target. To investigate the effect of grinding process on further flotation of ground products, progressive release flotation tests were used to compare with the float-sink tests, which were regarded as a criterion. Coal middlings were ground by wet-milling with iron balls to <0.5 mm. Curves of ash vs. cumulative yields of sized products indicated that the concentrate yield of coal separated by progressive release flotation was lower than that of coal benefited by the float-sink test, with the same ash for four size fractions (0.5-0.25 mm, 0.25-0.125 mm, 0.125-0.074 mm and <0.074 mm). Distributions of elements conducted by energy disperse spectroscopy (EDX) showed that associated kaolinite was liberated and exposed on the surface. It led to the shift of local surface property from hydrophobicity to hydrophilicity. Meanwhile, analyses of chemical property performed by an X-Ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS) depicted that the hydrophilic mineral FeOOH, which generated in the grinding process, was adsorbed on the coal surface. Flotation of the ground products were worsened due to the increase of hydrophilicity of the coal surface.
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