The invention relates to the technical field of
beneficiation of high-
calcium low-grade
magnesite, in particular to a flotation decalcification agent for high-
calcium magnesite and a using method of the flotation decalcification agent. Aiming at the problems that
magnesite and
calcareous minerals are easy to inhibit synchronously during flotation and a traditional
reagent is large in dosage and high in cost, the invention provides a novel flotation
reagent which can inhibit the floatability of the
calcareous minerals. The flotation
reagent comprises an inhibitor, a collecting agent and a
foaming agent, the inhibitor is methylglycine diacetic acid (MGDA) or trisodium methylglycine diacetate (MGDA-3Na), the collecting agent is
sodium oleate, and the
foaming agent is 2 # oil; 30 mg-300 mg of an inhibitor, 30 mg-180 mg of a collecting agent and 2 mg-7 mg of a
foaming agent are correspondingly added into every 1 L of magnesite pulp; the low-
calcium magnesite concentrate obtained by flotation comprises the following main components in percentage by
mass: 46.0-48.5% of MgO, less than or equal to 0.4% of SiO2 and less than or equal to 0.8% of CaO; the
recovery rate of the magnesite concentrate is 65%-90% by weight, and the
recovery rate of MgO in the magnesite concentrate is 60%-80% by weight.