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Flotation is one of the most traditional and widely used technologies in industrial mineral processing. This methodology is based on changing the hydrophobic behaviour of the mineral surfaces using organic flotation collector molecules. The mineral – collector interactions in the flotation interface are very important for the detailed understanding of the technology, but presently they are practically unexplored. We present our concepts to study the flotation interface applying some ultrasensitive nanospectroscopic facilities of Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.