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WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE COPPER RECOVERY PROCESS WHEN A NEW GENERATION OF COPPER ORE GET INTO MINNING PROGRAMS?
Sergio Rivera, Ademir Ramirez, Julio Rosales, Arturo Gutierrez, Nicols Monsalve and Katherine Saldas
Summary
The current high price of cooper opens the door to several mining projects kept until now under extremely special precautions. Nowadays those resources in-situ become base reserves which can be economically demonstrated. The question is what kind of collateral effect can be expected when the so named reserves will be fed to the processes
Copper Process
Black Coppers
Akthtensita
Ramsdellita
Hausmannita
Manganita
Braunita
Tenorita
Melaconita (es lo mismo que Tenorita) Paramelaconica(es otro arreglo espacial de la tenorita)
Copper Wad
Neotocita
Delafosita
Ch.
Relevant variable: - Humity - Distribution size - Particle shape factor - Porosity - Acid dosification - Aglommeration time, rotation velocity, scope angle - Rest time
Relevant variable - Recovery - Cu Concentration in PLS - Impurity Concentration in PLS - Consume of acid
Effect : Geological Parameters : - Mineralogy of ganga Solvent Extraction - Electrolyte purity - Efficiency control - Residence time
SX
EW
RAFFINATE
PROCESS
MgSO47H2O
Al2(SO4)318H2O