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Get PriceThe invention relates to a method for producing copper in a hydrometallurgical process from copperbearing raw materials, such as sulfidic concentrates. The concentrate is leached in a leaching stage of several steps into a chloridebased solution. The copperbearing solution obtained from this leaching is subjected to reduction and solution purification, whereafter the copper contained in the ...
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Get PriceHydrometallurgy is a method for obtaining metals from their ores. It is a technique within the field of extractive metallurgy involving the use of aqueous chemistry for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials. Metal chemical processing techniques that complement hydrometallurgy are pyrometallurgy, vapour metallurgy and molten salt electrometallurgy.
Get PriceCopper: smelting and classification; The smelting of copper; Copper that is mined from copper ore, after beneficiation, becomes high quality copper concentrate. Then, after being smelted, refined copper and copper products are yielded. There are two ways of smelting copper, one is pyrometallurgy, the other hydrometallurgical.
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Get PriceAn outline of a hydrometallurgical method employed for the processing of a copper sulphide concentrate is presented. It consists in leaching the concentrate with acid ferric sulphate solution, followed by electrolysis of the copper with simultaneous anodic regeneration of the leaching agent in electrolysers with diaphragms.
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Get PriceHydrometallurgical methods alone or in combination with flotation have mainly been applied to large tonnage operations to recover copper from low grade native copper, oxidized, or mixed oxide and sulfide ores that are not readily concentrated by flotation alone …
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