Beneficiation and applications of an Egyptian bentonite
3. Results and discussion 3.1. Beneficiation of the bentonite ore The results of beneficiation showed that applying a flowsheet based on attrition scrubbing of the crushed bentonite ore followed by classification with a hydrocyclone succeeded in removing much of the associated quartz and calcite as an underflow Žabout 15 wt.%. fraction.