Extractive Metallurgy of Copper
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- English
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Extractive Metallurgy of Copper
About This Book
This multi-author new edition revises and updates the classic reference by William G. Davenport et al (winner of, among other awards, the 2003 AIME Mineral Industry Educator of the Year Award "for inspiring students in the pursuit of clarity"), providing fully updated coverage of the copper production process, encompassing topics as diverse as environmental technology for wind and solar energy transmission, treatment of waste by-products, and recycling of electronic scrap for potential alternative technology implementation. The authors examine industrially grounded treatments of process fundamentals and the beneficiation of raw materials, smelting and converting, hydrometallurgical processes, and refining technology for a mine-to-market perspective - from primary and secondary raw materials extraction to shipping of rod or billet to customers. The modern coverage of the work includes bath smelting processes such as Ausmelt and Isasmelt, which have become state-of-the-art in sulfide concentrate smelting and converting.
- Drawing on extensive international industrial consultancies within working plants, this work describes in depth the complete copper production process, starting from both primary and secondary raw materials and ending with rod or billet being shipped to customers
- The work focuses particularly on currently-used industrial processes used to turn raw materials into refined copper metal rather than ideas working 'only on paper'
- New areas of coverage include the environmentally appropriate uses of copper cables in power transmission for wind and solar energy sources; the recycling of electronic scrap as an important new feedstock to the copper industry, and state-of-the-art Ausmelt and Isasmelt bath smelting processes for sulfide concentrate smelting and converting
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1.1. Introduction
FIGURE 1.1 (Photo courtesy of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.). |
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1.2. Extracting Copper from CopperāIronāSulfide Ores
1.2.1. Concentration by Froth Flotation (Chapter 3 and Chapter 4)
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1.2.2. Matte Smelting (Chapter 5, Chapter 6 and Chapter 9)
FIGURE 1.5 |
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Copyright
- Preface
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Chapter 1. Overview
- Chapter 2. Production and Use
- Chapter 3. Production of High Copper Concentrates ā Introduction and Comminution
- Chapter 4. Production of Cu Concentrate from Finely Ground Cu Ore
- Chapter 5. Matte Smelting Fundamentals
- Chapter 6. Flash Smelting
- Chapter 7. Submerged Tuyere Smelting
- Chapter 8. Converting of Copper Matte
- Chapter 9. Bath Matte Smelting
- Chapter 10. Direct-To-Copper Flash Smelting
- Chapter 11. Copper Loss in Slag
- Chapter 12. Capture and Fixation of Sulfur
- Chapter 13. Fire Refining (S and O Removal) and Anode Casting
- Chapter 14. Electrolytic Refining
- Chapter 15. Hydrometallurgical Copper Extraction
- Chapter 16. Solvent Extraction
- Chapter 17. Electrowinning
- Chapter 18. Collection and Processing of Recycled Copper
- Chapter 19. Chemical Metallurgy of Copper Recycling
- Chapter 20. Melting and Casting
- Chapter 21. Byproduct and Waste Streams
- Chapter 22. Costs of Copper Production
- Index