Flotation wastewater contains lots of heavy metal ions, the flotation reagents, suspended solids and other pollutants, direct discharge can cause water resource waste and en- vironmental pollution. Based on the single mineral flotation experiment, it studied flotation behavior of butyl xanthate, ammonium butyl aerofloat and ethyl thio carbamate on pyrite in three systems of distilled water,waste water and wastewater treatment water three system. Results show that compared with distilled water system in wastewater treatment system, with and without collector, the flotation recovery of pyrite is...