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The high secondary copper and slime content in a copper-molybdenum mixed concentrate makes the secondary copper mineral difficult to inhibit during copper-molybdenum separation flotation and the produced copper-molybdenum concentrates fail to meet the quality requirement.So the pre-separation-copper and molybdenum separation process is studied.The results show that when the copper grade is 24.40 % and molybdenum grade is 0.46 % in the copper-molybdenum mixed concentrate and the test conditions are optimum,the flotation process that includes pre-separation,once roughing,twice scavenging,eight times cleaning and middling recycling,can obtain the molybdenum concentrate with copper grade 51.56 %,copper grade 1.05 % and molybdenum recovery rate 74.29 %,and the copper concentrate with copper grade 24.55 %,molybdenum grade 0.12 % and copper recovery rate 99.97 %.The new process achieves effective separation of copper and molybdenum for an easily argillizable copper-molybdenum mixed concentrate with high secondary copper content.