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Geometallurgy of cobalt ores: A review - ScienceDirect
2021.1.1 Highly weathered ores usually display a complex gangue mineralogy which can play a significant role in the overall flotation efficiency (Bafubiandi and Bell, 2000) and often result in large amounts of slimes which have a negative effect on the floatability of oxide copper minerals (Bulatovic, 2010).
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Flotation of copper oxide minerals: A review - ScienceDirect
2022.11.1 For copper oxide ores that contain weak magnetic copper-bearing minerals, such as libethenite, and copper-bearing limonite, after sulfidization flotation, the flotation tailings can be reseparated by high-gradient magnetic separation.
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2022.4.27 The flotation of oxide copper ore containing chrysocolla and quartz with 2.13% Cu was studied by Nagaraj and Somasundaran [ 100 ]. By using the collector emulsion containing 0.034 kg/t Tergitol and 0.5
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Agitation Leaching Behavior of Copper–Cobalt
2023.5.30 Agitation leaching is a promising technology in hydrometallurgy for treating copper–cobalt oxide ores. In this work, the behavior of oxide ores containing around 2.3% Cu and 0.3% Co received
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Recent Advances in Copper Ore Processing and
2022.1.28 In this investigation, a laboratory-scale study to extract copper (Cu) from its oxide ore (0.425–11.2 mm particle size) was conducted using varied sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4) concentrations (0.05–0.5 M) as a
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The Ore Grade and Depth Influence on Copper Energy Inputs
2016.11.22 On the basis of the equation, an ore grade of 0.5, 0.4 and 0.3% at 300 m of depth results in an energy cost of 60, 127 and 447 MJ/kg to obtain a 30%+ copper concentrate from underground mines, and 52, 95 and 255 MJ/kg for
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19 - Flotation of Oxide Copper and Copper Cobalt Ores
2019.2.13 The process involves two basic flotation methods: (a) fatty acid flotation of oxide copper minerals from siliceous ore, and (b) sulphidization of oxide copper minerals followed by flotation using sulfhydryl collectors, such as xanthate [1] from carbonate ores.
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Complex processing of oxidized copper and zinc oxide ores
2020.12.5 Complex processing of oxidized copper and zinc oxide ores with simultaneous production of several products. December 2020. Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 57 (1):226-249. DOI:...
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Copper Ore - an overview ScienceDirect Topics
From plant practice, treating oxide copper and copper cobalt ores, two basic flotation methods are practiced: (a) sulphidization flotation method, and (b) anionic flotation method. 19.5.1 Sulphidization flotation method. This method is the most commonly used in beneficiation if oxide copper-bearing ore.
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Sustainable Use of Copper Resources:
2022.4.27 copper oxide and sulphide minerals [10, 11]. Copper is a non-ferrous base metal, which comprises 50 ppm on average in the Earth’s ... The gravity concentration of copper ores is not effective ...
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Copper Ore - an overview ScienceDirect Topics
A History of Exploration for and Discovery of Finland’s Ore Deposits. I. Haapala, H. Papunen, in Mineral Deposits of Finland, 2015 Discovery of the Outokumpu (Keretti) Copper Deposit. The discovery of the Outokumpu copper ore in North Karelia was an epoch-making achievement in the history of the Finnish mining industry. The story of the discovery has
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Ore Types: What They Are, How They’re Made, and Their
2023.11.8 Mixed zones are common among metals whose ores include both oxide (sensu lato) and sulfide minerals (copper, cobalt, nickel, zinc, sometimes lead and antimony). Oxides are generally nearer the surface and sulfides are below, but in between is an interval where supergene fluids have only partially converted sulfides to oxides and
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Minerals Free Full-Text Sustainable Use of Copper
2022.4.27 Many researchers believe that the froth flotation of oxide copper ores is a complex method, and it needs the sulphidization stage. The oxide copper minerals have thick hydration film surfaces, which are hard to contact with air bubbles, implying that the flotation response of oxide is inferior to sulphide copper ores, technically and economically.
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Types of Copper Deposits in the World - Investing News
2023.8.16 Iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits are highly valuable concentrations of copper, gold and uranium ores. Copper skarn deposits, which in a broad sense are formed through chemical and physical ...
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Pure copper metal is mostly produced from these ores by concentration, smelting, and refining. About 80% of the world's copper-from-ore is produced by concentration/smelting/ refining of sulfide ores. The other 20% is produced by heap leaching/solvent extraction/electrowinning of oxide, and chalcocite ores.
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Novel treatment for mixed copper ores: Leaching ammonia –
2020.4.1 This procedure is the most employed for flotation of copper oxides (Yin et al., 2019), but the concerns arise in controlling the pulp's potential (Corin et al., 2017, Hua et al., 2018, Lee et al., 2009) and management of
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Low grade ores – Smelt, leach or concentrate? - ScienceDirect
2010.1.1 Unlike the other processing routes shown in Fig. 5, the direct ore smelting route is not used commercially for the production of copper or nickel metal (although ferronickel is produced by smelting nickel laterite ores without any prior concentration). These various processing routes are discussed in more detail later. 3.1. Copper and
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Concentration of oxide copper ores by flotation separation
Oxide copper ores in subdivided form may be concentrated in a flotation separation process by slurrying said ores in an aqueous solution of a flotation reagent followed by generating gas bubbles in the slurry to float the oxide copper and recovering the concentrated oxide copper from the surface of the slurry, wherein the floatation reagent is II. condensation
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2023.3.28 Silver-rich ores and copper sulfide ores: Silver-rich ores and copper sulfide ores are often free-milling, but when the silver grade is high (>10 g/t) and/or the gold is present ... observed in some gold deposits. Generally, the order of concentration of gold in pyrite and arsenopyrite is: fine-grained>porous>coarse-grained (Figures 8 9). In some
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A Brief Introduction to Copper Oxide Ores Fote Machinery
2023.2.15 Binding ration= (bonded copper oxide amount / total copper oxide amount) × 100%. There are three ways to combine copper oxide and gangue: (1) It is mechanically dispersed in the gangue to become finely dispersed inclusions. (2) Become an isomorphism in a chemical way. (3) Become adsorbed impurities.
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How to Process Copper Ore: Beneficiation Methods and Equipment
2023.3.13 Copper ore beneficiation methods. Before 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.
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Extraction of Copper Oxide (I): Purified CuSO4 Solution
2023.3.16 Heating and melting are frequently used to extract copper (Cu) from its parent ores [1,2,3,4].Roasting, smelting, and conversion are the three phases of the heating and melting process for primary copper ores [5,6,7,8,9,10,11].Significant amounts of copper are lost as dust in the first and second phases; this dust is referred to as waste copper
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Effective bioleaching of low-grade copper ores
2020.7.1 The initial copper concentration in leachate of LS-ore was much higher (>150 mg/L) than that of the other two ores, as the component of acid-soluble copper ore, for example oxide copper ore (Table 2) (Velásquez-Yévenes and Quezada-Reyes, 2018).
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An investigation into the leaching behaviour of copper oxide
2017.1.1 The dissolution of carbonate gangue minerals, which are often ubiquitous in copper deposits, leads to the consumption of large amounts of acid during the leaching of such ores, which can make the process uneconomical (Habashi, 1970, Habashi, 1980, You-Cai et al., 2013).Table 1 shows the acid consumption and estimated time to complete the
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(PDF) Heap leaching as a key technology for recovery of
2015.9.1 The colour scale from red to blue directly relates to decreasing tracer concentration. ... gold ores, acid leaching for copper oxide ores and oxidative acid leaching of secondary .
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Leaching of Gold from an Oxide Gold Ore with Copper
2023.8.10 The leaching behavior of gold from an oxide gold ore using copper–tartrate–thiosulfate solutions has been investigated. Experimental parameters, including temperature, initial pH, and concentrations of copper tartrate and thiosulfate, were systematically studied. The capability of gold leaching using copper–tartrate–thiosulfate
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A study of recovery of copper and cobalt from copper–cobalt oxide ores ...
2012.11.1 With X-ray diffraction analysis on the calcined ore at different temperatures, the roasting mechanism of copper–cobalt oxide ores with ammonium chloride was investigated. Co(NH 3) 6 CuCl 5 was found to be the main intermediate compound formed at roasting temperatures below 320 °C, above which it was further decomposed
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Metals Free Full-Text Leaching of Oxide Copper
In this study, weak acid in the curing and leaching stages of copper ore was incorporated, and we analyzed its effect on the dissolution of copper and final impurities. The weak acid corresponds to a wastewater effluent from
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The cuprous oxide is then converted to copper upon heating: 2 Cu 2 O → 4 Cu + O 2. Copper is a constituent of various metal alloys, such as sterling silver used in jewelry, cupronickel used to make marine hardware and
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Application of Sulfide Copper Ores Oxidizing Roasting
2019.12.2 Use of the method of direct ore processing [7, 8] is limited for production and economic reasons.A version of rational use of pyrite ores may combined processing with oxidized nickel ores [].Reduction sulfiding melting of the latter using the product of partial oxidation firing of copper ore as a sulfiding agent makes it possible to obtain
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Minerals Free Full-Text Accessing Metals from Low-Grade Ores
2022.4.20 However, low-grade zinc oxide ores, particularly those containing high concentrations of iron, silicon, chloride, and calcium, are processed in a different manner. This process uses a lot of acid, and the purification process is complicated, since it is difficult to separate zinc oxide from the slurry due to the formation of silica gel, which ...
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Biomining: Metal Recovery from Ores with Microorganisms
2013.1.1 It can be expected that the share of leached copper will further rise in Peru because of the reinforced leaching of oxide copper ores, as well as the bioleaching of sulfide ores. 2.1.2 New Developments. ... CO 2 > 2 vol %) and the highest copper concentrations in the dump. In their laboratory-scale experiments 63 % zinc was recovered from a ...
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Chemical Composition Data of the Main Stages of Copper
2022.2.16 The chemical composition of Chilean copper sulfide ores in terms of Cu and Fe concentrations are shown in Table 3A, whereas Table 3B shows a more detailed chemical composition of copper sulfide ores from northern Chile. Note that the copper concentration varies between approximately 0.7 and 2.1 wt% depending on the region.
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Global Fe–O isotope correlation reveals magmatic origin of
2019.4.12 Apatite-iron oxide ore is by far the biggest source of iron in Europe and one of the main iron sources worldwide 1.In Europe, these magnetite-dominated ores have traditionally been sourced from ...
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Heap Leaching Oxide and Sulfide Copper Ores - 911
2019.6.22 Heap leaching is a simple means of recovering copper from oxide and oxide-sulfide ores. Although this method requires relatively low capital investment, it suffers from low copper recoveries and relatively high acid consumption. The objectives of this study were (1) to determine what factors influence these shortcomings, and (2) to establish a ...
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(PDF) Agglomeration and leaching behaviors of copper oxides
2021.7.1 oxide ores (−0.075+0 mm) were uniformly mixed with the binders. To promote bonding reactions and agglomeration strength, the agglomerates were placed in a stable environ-
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