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Extraction of copper from ore begins with pre-treatment. Due to the decreasing concentration of copper in ores, this is an important step to decrease the volume of material and to increase the grade of copper in the ore. ... Yet, the most common source of copper ore is the sulphide ore mineral chalcopyrite, which accounts for around 50% of ...
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Pre-treatment of Carbonaceous Sulphide Ore to Eliminate Organic Carbon and Carbonaceous Material The effects of particle size on the removal of organic carbon and carbonaceous material was investigated. ... Acid treatment of copper sulfide middlings and rougher concentrate in the flotation circuit of carbonate ores. Int J Miner Process 88:45 ...
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In addition to tailings dam failures and pipeline leaks, sulfide-ore copper mines can pollute through seepage from underground pits and surface waste rock and sulfide-bearing ore. These pollution vectors are hard to detect and difficult to fix. By exposing sulfides minerals in the pit walls to oxygen and water, they are able to produce acid ...
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Treatment of complex lead, copper and zinc sulfides P. V. VISWANATHAN, B. V. S. YEDAVALLI, S. R. SRINIVASAN and P. P. BHATNAGAR FOR the adoption of conventional methods for the recovery of lead, copper and zinc from the com-plex sulfide ores, it is essential that these be beneticiated to a high grade concentrate. The minerals
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Sulfide minerals are the source of various precious metals, most notably gold, silver, and platinum. They also are the ore minerals of most metals used by industry, as for example antimony, bismuth, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc. Other industrially important metals such as cadmium and selenium occur in trace amounts in numerous common sulfides ...
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The aim of this paper is to assess the effect of microwave treatment on copper sulfide ore for ball milling and bed breakage. Liberation analysis of ground products in eight size fractions showed that microwave pretreatment liberated more chalcopyrite particles from the bed breakage product than the ball mill product. In bed breakage, microwave pretreatment caused a 2% increase in chalcopyrite ...
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Jan 25, 2022Before the beneficiation of copper ores, crushing and grinding are required. The bulk ores are crushed to about 12cm by a jaw crusher or a cone crusher. Then the crushed materials are sent to the grinding equipment, and the final particle size of the copper ore is reduced to 0.15-0.2mm. Copper ore crushing process 1.
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Copper sulfide mines can cause severe impacts to drinking water aquifers, contamination of farmland, contamination and loss of fish and wildlife and their habitat, and risks to public health. ... tailings failures and water collection and treatment failures. All of the mines (100%) experienced pipeline spills or other accidental releases. The ...
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containing copper ores, base metal ores, copper nickel ores, platinum group ores and many other ores where other processes are not applicable. Flotation is also used for the removal of interfering impurities before hydrometallurgical treatment (i.e. carbon prefloat), for upgrading of low-sulphide and refractory ores for further treatment.
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A copper nickel sulfide ore in Xinjiang is taken as the research object, the combined process of copper selective flotation-magnetic separation of copper concentrate-copper/nickel bulk flotation of tailings for selective flotation was adopted to finally obtain a copper concentrate with Cu grade of 25.43%, recovery of 52.08%, Ni grade of 0.19%, MgO content of 2.32% and a copper nickel mixed ...
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The dissolution of copper sulphide ores continues to be a challenge for the copper industry. Several media and leaching alternatives have been proposed to improve the dissolution of these minerals, especially for the leaching of chalcopyrite. Among the alternatives, pretreatment prior to leaching was proposed as an option that increases the dissolution of copper from sulphide ores. In this ...
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By segregating the ore thus oxidized with the addition of 1% NaCl and 1.5% coal at a temperature of 770°C, concentrates with a copper content of 15.8% and a recovery of 79.7% are obtained. Among other metals occurring in the ore, only silver undergoes segregation and its recovery exceeds 70%.
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The roasted ore may contain ferrite and/or ferrite may be added to the ore, either before or after roasting. The leaching with peroxysulphuric acid may be carried out in the presence of gaseous chlorine. The metal sulphide ores may contain substantial proportions of copper and zinc sulphides.
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If the ore contains gold or silver, a certain amount of lead may be added. The precious metal is removed with the lead. In certain cases, in which a volatile metal such as antimony is present, it...
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Copper sulfide and oxide ores are the forms most commonly mined for copper. Copper Ores. Copper ores are complex. Can contain metals, other elements, and non-metallic minerals. In the ore, copper is . less than 1%. Depending on the ore, it requires different mining and extraction processes to yield .
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Another example is the treatment of ores containing copper sulfide (chalcocite) and copper iron sulfide (chalcopyrite), together with molybdenum disulfide (molybdenite). The usual practice is to float both copper and molybdenum minerals in the first stage, leaving iron sulfides and other gangue minerals behind.
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the various sulphide minerals (Senior and Trahar, 1991; Clarke et al., 1995). In this study, a copper sulphide ore has been artificially oxidised for varying lengths of time and a series of grinding and flotation tests under several grinding environments were completed at each time interval to study the combined effect of ore oxidation and
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Copper Sulfide Ore. About 80% of the world's copper-from-ore originates in Cu-Fe-S ores, such as chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) and chalcocite (Cu2S). The concentration of these minerals in an ore body is low. Typical copper ores contain from 0.5% Cu (open pit mines) to 1 or 2% Cu (underground mines). Cu-Fe-S minerals are not easily dissolved by ...
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Oxidized copper ores are exhibiting increasingly their importance as copper resources as worldwide high grade copper sulfide deposits become depleted. Extensive chemical and technological efforts have been made to meet the demand of exploitation of such copper resources.
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TREATMENT OF OXIDIZED COPPER BY AGITATION SULFUR DIOXIDE AND AMMONIA AS SOLVENTS IRON SALTS AS SOLVENTS OTHER SOLVENTS FOR OXIDIZED COPPER CONTROL OF TEMPERATURE DURING SULFATION THE PRECIPITANT ELECTROLYSIS SULFUR-DIOXIDE PRECIPITATION HYDROGEN SULFIDE AS PRECIPITANT PRECIPITATION BY HEAT ALONE OTHER PRECIPITANTS
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The treatment of refractory copper ores by the segregation process— E. T. Pinkney and N. Plint These authors note that: The main ore bodies currently being worked are predominantly sulphide copper deposits of the Roan Antelope, Mufulira, Nkana and Mindola Mines plus the rich mixed sulphide-oxide ore at Nchanga and the lower grade mixed
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Sulfide-ore copper mining is a risky type of mining that has never been done before in Minnesota. No matter the method, sulfide-ore copper mines proposed near the Boundary Waters would extract trace amounts of metals from large volumes of rock. Rock is blasted from pit walls and sorted into metal-bearing ore and waste rock.
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The application of ammonium thiosulfate for the treatment of copper-gold ores has been investigated. Leaching studies were conducted with copper minerals, copper minerals with gold addition to solution and copper-gold samples of different copper and gold grades. ... The copper sulfide minerals chalcopyrite and enargite seem to be unreactive ...
Get priceThis process uses aqueous (water-based) solutions to extract and purify copper from copper oxide ores at ordinary temperatures, usually in three steps: heap leaching, solvent extraction, and electrowinning. Heap Leaching and Solvent Extraction of Oxide Ore. Heap Leaching is the process of using percolating chemical solutions to leach out metals.
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Copper can be extracted from non-sulphide ores by a different process involving three separate stages: Reaction of the ore (over quite a long time and on a huge scale) with a dilute acid such as dilute sulphuric acid to produce a very dilute copper (II) sulphate solution. Concentration of the copper (II) sulphate solution by solvent extraction.
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SMELTING AND HYDROMETALLURGY TREATMENT FOR COPPER SULPHIDE ORES AND CONCENTRATES This report summarizes the main findings of an ICSG funded research project looking to study five critical subjects related to the plants processing copper sulphides ores and concentrates of different complexity.
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Copper ores 0.2-6.0 Copper ore, other minerals, waste rock0.2-6.0 (gangue) Copper minerals,b iron and other metallic0.5-6.0 pyrites, byproducts, andgangue Solution of copper and leaching agent20-50 (water orHAO.) Copper, iron (0.2-2.00/0), trace amounts of85-90 silica and aluminum oxides, and oxygen Organic solvent and pregnantIeachate; 25-35
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Inherent problems of oxidized gold-bearing copper ores processing and a comparison of hydrometallurgical methods, applied for such materials, are discussed in this article. Studies on sulfuric acid and cyanide leaching have been carried out, using the following sample of oxidized ore from one of the copper deposits (Kyrgyzstan), %: 15 Mg O, 45.6 SiO2, 0.1 S, 20 Ca O, 12.1 Fe2O3, 0.86 Cu, 1.78 ...
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U. S. ore. Fourteen domestic mines accounted for more than 95 percent of the 1.45 megagrams (Mg) (1.6 millon tons) of ore produced in 1991. Copper is produced in the U. S. primarily by pyrometallurgical smelting methods. Pyrometallurgical techniques use heat to separate copper from copper sulfide ore concentrates. Process
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To be applicable to this process, the ores must contain copper minerals in sulfide form; as mineral such as Chalcocite (Cu 2 S), Chalcopyrite (CuFeS 2) and Covellite (CuS) . In the concentrating operations these minerals are separated from the gangue material of the ore, that might contain as little as 0.5% copper to form a concentrate ...
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The gold in disseminated copper deposits is partitioned among the copper-sulfide minerals (chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, digenite, and covellite), pyrite, and free gold (Kesler et al. 2002). Gold associated with the copper minerals would stay with the copper concentrate and be recovered at an off-site smelter.
Get priceCompounds of certain metals are reduced to metal without using any additional reducing agent. ores of Cu, Pb, Hg etc. Their sulphide ores are partially roasted to give some oxide. This oxide is now reduced to the metal by the remaining sulphide ore at elevated temperatures in the absence of air. The process is known as self reduction.
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An undetermined amount of copper is currently recovered from sulfide ores through the aid of naturally occurring microorganisms. If costs can be lowered equivalent to that of the smelting process itself, bioleaching holds promise for the treatment of copper concentrates in situations wherein the capital costs of a smelter are not warranted and ...
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Copper Sulfide Flotation Mineral Processing Metallurgy. Apr 13, 2016· Flowsheet for treatment of Copper Sulfide ores rich in minerals such as chalcopyrite with gold and silver as well as arsenopyrite The above flowsheet is designed for the treatment by flotation of copper as chalcopyrite . Get a quote
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Winning of metals from sulphide ores Extraction of Copper a. Hydro - metallurgy of copper b. Pyro - metallurgical extraction of copper c. Newer process for copper extraction ... The lumps (the sinter) are crushed and sorted to a suitable size for subsequent treatment in a blast furnace, similar in construction to those for making iron but ...
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The treatment of arsenical copper concentrates is a challenging and increasing problem in the copper industry, with decreasing grades and increasing impurity levels in many known deposits, yet to be exploited. Sherritt's Dilute POX process has been developed to treat complex copper concentrates,
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The plant will have a nominal throughput of 1 t/d of ore (e.g. copper and copper/cobalt) and with the capability to produce up to ~10kg/d of cathode metal. ... Copper waste streams. Wastewater treatment company BioteQ Environmental Technologies has its core expertise in sulphide precipitation technologies, BioSulphide and ChemSulphide ...
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The slurry, when agitated causes the copper sulfide minerals to float at which point they are skimmed off the surface dried. The dried material is then sent to the smelter. Oxide ores and leaching. Oxide ores (and certain sulfide ores) are placed onto a leach pad and saturated with weak sulfuric acid solution that dissolves the copper mineral ...
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Codelco - Chile - Consulting services for copper heap and dump leaching projects, including Chuquicamata (Mina Sur North Extension, Ripios, ROM, LG Dumps), Gaby, San Antonio, Damiana, and Andina, plus preparation of protocols for heap leaching testwork for oxide and sulphide ores (2001-2009) Copper Oxide Vat/Heap Leach-SX-EW Project - South ...
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