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109 relations: Anatolia, Anode, Aqueous solution, Arsenic, Atacamite, Azurite, Çayönü, Bacterial oxidation, Beneficiation, Bingham Canyon Mine, Biomining, Bismuth, Blast furnace, Bronze Age, Calcination, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, Cathode, Cementation (metallurgy), Chalcocite, Chalcolithic, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Comminution, Commodity, Copper, Copper mining in the United States, Copper sulfate, Copper(I) oxide, Copper(II) sulfate, Crusher, Digenite, Dump leaching, Electrolysis, Electrolyte, Electrowinning, Extractive metallurgy, Flash smelting, Froth flotation, Galena, Gangue, Gold, Gravity separation, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, Heap leaching, Hydrophobe, Hypogene, In situ leach, Ingot, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Iron(II) oxide, ..., IsaKidd refining technology, ISASMELT, Leachate, Leaching (metallurgy), Lead, Lime (material), Liquid–liquid extraction, Liquidus, List of copper ores, List of countries by copper production, London, Magnetite, Malachite, Matte (metallurgy), Metallurgy, Mount Isa Mines, Natural gas, New York City, Operating temperature, Ore, PH, Pločnik (archaeological site), Poling (metallurgy), Potassium ethyl xanthate, Pregnant leach solution, Prill, Pyrite, Refractory, Reverberatory furnace, Rudna Glava (archaeological site), Selenium, Serbia, Shanghai, Shanidar Cave, Silicate minerals, Silver, Sinter plant, Slag, Smelting, Sodium dithiophosphate, Sodium ethyl xanthate, Solvent extraction and electrowinning, Sphalerite, Spot contract, Stoichiometry, Sulfidation, Sulfur dioxide, Sulfuric acid, Supergene (geology), Surfactant, Tailings, Tank leaching, Tellurium, Timna Valley, Tungsten, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Xanthate, Zinc, 4-Methyl-2-pentanol. Expand index (59 more) »
Anatolia
Anatolia (Modern Greek: Ανατολία Anatolía, from Ἀνατολή Anatolḗ,; "east" or "rise"), also known as Asia Minor (Medieval and Modern Greek: Μικρά Ἀσία Mikrá Asía, "small Asia"), Asian Turkey, the Anatolian peninsula, or the Anatolian plateau, is the westernmost protrusion of Asia, which makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey.
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Anode
An anode is an electrode through which the conventional current enters into a polarized electrical device.
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Aqueous solution
An aqueous solution is a solution in which the solvent is water.
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Arsenic
Arsenic is a chemical element with symbol As and atomic number 33.
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Atacamite
Atacamite is a copper halide mineral: a copper(II) chloride hydroxide with formula Cu2Cl(OH)3.
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Azurite
Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits.
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Çayönü
Çayönü is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey inhabited around 7200 to 6600 BC.
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Bacterial oxidation
Bacteria biooxidation is an oxidation process caused by microbes where the valuable metal remains (but becomes enriched) in the solid phase.In this process, the metal remains in the solid phase and the liquid can be discarded.
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Beneficiation
In the mining industry or extractive metallurgy, beneficiation is any process that improves (benefits) the economic value of the ore by removing the gangue minerals, which results in a higher grade product (concentrate) and a waste stream (tailings).
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Bingham Canyon Mine
The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains.
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Biomining
Biomining is a technique of extracting metals from ores and other solid materials typically using prokaryotes or fungi.
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Bismuth
Bismuth is a chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83.
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Blast furnace
A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Calcination
The IUPAC defines calcination as "heating to high temperatures in air or oxygen".
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Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is a not-for-profit technical society of professionals in the Canadian minerals, metals, materials and energy industries.
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Cathode
A cathode is the electrode from which a conventional current leaves a polarized electrical device.
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Cementation (metallurgy)
Cementation is a type of precipitation, a heterogeneous process in which ions are reduced to zero valence at a solid metallic interface.
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Chalcocite
Chalcocite, copper(I) sulfide (Cu2S), is an important copper ore mineral.
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Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), p. 301: "Chalcolithic /,kælkəl'lɪθɪk/ adjective Archaeology of, relating to, or denoting a period in the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE, chiefly in the Near East and SE Europe, during which some weapons and tools were made of copper. This period was still largely Neolithic in character. Also called Eneolithic... Also called Copper Age - Origin early 20th cent.: from Greek khalkos 'copper' + lithos 'stone' + -ic". χαλκός khalkós, "copper" and λίθος líthos, "stone") period or Copper Age, in particular for eastern Europe often named Eneolithic or Æneolithic (from Latin aeneus "of copper"), was a period in the development of human technology, before it was discovered that adding tin to copper formed the harder bronze, leading to the Bronze Age.
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Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite is a copper iron sulfide mineral that crystallizes in the tetragonal system.
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Chrysocolla
Chrysocolla is a hydrated copper phyllosilicate mineral with formula: Cu2−Al(H2−Si2O5)(OH)4·H2O (or (Cu,Al)2H2Si2O5(OH)4·H2O. The structure of the mineral has been questioned, as spectrographic studies suggest material identified as chrysocolla may be a mixture of the copper hydroxide spertiniite and chalcedony.
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Comminution
Comminution is the reduction of solid materials from one average particle size to a smaller average particle size, by crushing, grinding, cutting, vibrating, or other processes.
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Commodity
In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Copper mining in the United States
Copper mining in the United States has been a major industry since the rise of the northern Michigan copper district in the 1840s.
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Copper sulfate
Copper sulfate may refer to.
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Copper(I) oxide
Copper(I) oxide or cuprous oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Cu2O.
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Copper(II) sulfate
Copper(II) sulfate, also known as cupric sulfate, or copper sulphate, is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula CuSO4(H2O)x, where x can range from 0 to 5.
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Crusher
A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel, or rock dust.
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Digenite
Digenite is a copper sulfide mineral with formula: Cu9S5.
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Dump leaching
Dump leaching is an industrial process to extract precious metals and copper from ores.
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Electrolysis
In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses a direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.
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Electrolyte
An electrolyte is a substance that produces an electrically conducting solution when dissolved in a polar solvent, such as water.
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Electrowinning
Electrowinning, also called electroextraction, is the electrodeposition of metals from their ores that have been put in solution via a process commonly referred to as leaching.
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Extractive metallurgy
Extractive metallurgy is a branch of metallurgical engineering wherein process and methods of extraction of metals from their natural mineral deposits are studied.
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Flash smelting
Development of flash smelting in the copper industry, related to the number of smelters using this technology. Flash smelting (Liekkisulatus, literally "flame-smeling") is a smelting process for sulfur-containing ores including chalcopyrite.
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Froth flotation
Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic.
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Galena
Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide.
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Gangue
In mining, gangue is the commercially worthless material that surrounds, or is closely mixed with, a wanted mineral in an ore deposit.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
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Gravity separation
Gravity separation is an industrial method of separating two components, either a suspension, or dry granular mixture where separating the components with gravity is sufficiently practical: i.e. the components of the mixture have different specific weight.
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Guillaume Daniel Delprat
Guillaume Daniel Delprat CBE (1 September 1856 – 15 March 1937) was a Dutch-Australian metallurgist, mining engineer, and businessman.
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Heap leaching
Heap leaching is an industrial mining process to extract precious metals, copper, uranium, and other compounds from ore via a series of chemical reactions that absorb specific minerals and then re-separates them after their division from other earth materials.
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Hydrophobe
In chemistry, hydrophobicity is the physical property of a molecule (known as a hydrophobe) that is seemingly repelled from a mass of water.
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Hypogene
In ore deposit geology, hypogene processes occur deep below the earth's surface, and tend to form deposits of primary minerals, as opposed to supergene processes that occur at or near the surface, and tend to form secondary minerals.
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In situ leach
In-situ leaching (ISL), also called in-situ recovery (ISR) or solution mining, is a mining process used to recover minerals such as copper and uranium through boreholes drilled into a deposit, in situ.
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Ingot
An ingot is a piece of relatively pure material, usually metal, that is cast into a shape suitable for further processing.
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Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (IMM) was a British research institution, founded in 1892.
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Iron(II) oxide
Iron(II) oxide or ferrous oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula FeO.
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IsaKidd refining technology
The IsaKidd Technology is a copper electrorefining and electrowinning technology that was developed independently by Copper Refineries Proprietary Limited (“CRL”), a Townsville, Queensland subsidiary of MIM Holdings Limited (which is now part of the Glencore group of companies), and at the Falconbridge Limited (“Falconbridge”) now-dismantled Kidd Creek refinery that was at Timmins, Ontario.
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ISASMELT
The ISASMELT process is an energy-efficient smelting process that was jointly developed from the 1970s to the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines Limited (a subsidiary of MIM Holdings Limited and now part of Glencore Xstrata plc) and the Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ("CSIRO").
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Leachate
A leachate is any liquid that, in the course of passing through matter, extracts soluble or suspended solids, or any other component of the material through which it has passed.
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Leaching (metallurgy)
Leaching is a process where ore is soluble and impurities are insoluble, widely used extractive metallurgy technique which converts metals into soluble salts in aqueous media.
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Lead
Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.
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Lime (material)
Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.
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Liquid–liquid extraction
Liquid–liquid extraction (LLE), also known as solvent extraction and partitioning, is a method to separate compounds or metal complexes, based on their relative solubilities in two different immiscible liquids, usually water (polar) and an organic solvent (non-polar).
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Liquidus
The liquidus temperature, TL or Tliq specifies the temperature above which a material is completely liquid, and the maximum temperature at which crystals can co-exist with the melt in thermodynamic equilibrium.
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List of copper ores
Following is a list of minerals that serve as copper ores in the copper mining process.
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List of countries by copper production
This is a list of countries by mined copper production.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Magnetite
Magnetite is a rock mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula Fe3O4.
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Malachite
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral, with the formula Cu2CO3(OH)2.
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Matte (metallurgy)
Matte is a term used in the field of pyrometallurgy given to the molten metal sulfide phases typically formed during smelting of copper, nickel, and other base metals.
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Metallurgy
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.
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Mount Isa Mines
Mount Isa Mines Limited ("MIM") operates the Mount Isa copper, lead, zinc and silver mines near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia as part of the Glencore group of companies.
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Natural gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Operating temperature
An operating temperature is the temperature at which an electrical or mechanical device operates.
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Ore
An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.
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PH
In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.
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Pločnik (archaeological site)
Pločnik is an archaeological site in the village of the same name in Toplica District, Serbia.
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Poling (metallurgy)
Poling is a method employed in the purification of copper which contains copper oxide as an impurity and also in the purification of tin ("Sn") which contains tin oxide (stannic oxide or "SnO2") as an impurity.
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Potassium ethyl xanthate
Potassium ethyl xanthate is an organosulfur compound with the chemical formula CH3CH2OCS2K.
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Pregnant leach solution
Pregnant Leach Solution (PLS) is acidic metal-laden water generated from stockpile leaching and heap leaching.
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Prill
A prill is a small aggregate or globule of a material, most often a dry sphere, formed from a melted liquid.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).
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Refractory
A refractory mineral is a mineral that is resistant to decomposition by heat, pressure, or chemical attack.
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Reverberatory furnace
A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases.
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Rudna Glava (archaeological site)
Rudna Glava (Ore Head) is a mining site in present-day eastern Serbia that demonstrates one of the earliest evidences of European copper mining and metallurgy, dating to the 5th millennium BC.
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Selenium
Selenium is a chemical element with symbol Se and atomic number 34.
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Serbia
Serbia (Србија / Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия; Szerbia; Albanian and Romanian: Serbia; Slovak and Czech: Srbsko,; Сърбия.
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Shanghai
Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.
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Shanidar Cave
Shanidar Cave (Kurdish: Şaneder or Zewî Çemî Şaneder) is an archaeological site located on Bradost Mountain in the Erbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Silicate minerals
Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals with predominantly silicate anions.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.
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Sinter plant
Sinter plants agglomerate iron ore fines (dust) with other fine materials at high temperature, to create a product that can be used in a blast furnace.
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Slag
Slag is the glass-like by-product left over after a desired metal has been separated (i.e., smelted) from its raw ore.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.
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Sodium dithiophosphate
Sodium dithiophosphate is the salt with the formula Na3PS2O2.
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Sodium ethyl xanthate
Sodium ethyl xanthate (SEX) is an organosulfur compound with the chemical formula CH3CH2OCS2Na.
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Solvent extraction and electrowinning
Solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX/EW) is a two-stage hydrometallurgical process that first extracts and upgrades copper ions from low-grade leach solutions into a solvent containing a chemical that selectively reacts with and binds the copper in the solvent.
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Sphalerite
Sphalerite ((Zn, Fe)S) is a mineral that is the chief ore of zinc.
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Spot contract
In finance, a spot contract, spot transaction, or simply spot, is a contract of buying or selling a commodity, security or currency for immediate settlement (payment and delivery) on the spot date, which is normally two business days after the trade date.
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Stoichiometry
Stoichiometry is the calculation of reactants and products in chemical reactions.
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Sulfidation
Sulfidation is a process of installing sulfide ions in a material or molecule.
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Sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide in British English) is the chemical compound with the formula.
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Sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid (alternative spelling sulphuric acid) is a mineral acid with molecular formula H2SO4.
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Supergene (geology)
In ore deposit geology, supergene processes or enrichment are those that occur relatively near the surface as opposed to deep hypogene processes.
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Surfactant
Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension (or interfacial tension) between two liquids, between a gas and a liquid, or between a liquid and a solid.
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Tailings
Tailings, also called mine dumps, culm dumps, slimes, tails, refuse, leach residue or slickens, terra-cone (terrikon), are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore.
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Tank leaching
In metallurgical processes tank leaching is a hydrometallurgical method of extracting valuable material (usually metals) from ore.
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Tellurium
Tellurium is a chemical element with symbol Te and atomic number 52.
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Timna Valley
The Timna Valley is located in southern Israel in the southwestern Arava/Arabah, approximately north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the city of Eilat.
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Tungsten
Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.
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Xanthate
Sodium salt of ethyl xanthate Xanthate usually refers to a salt with the formula (R.
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Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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4-Methyl-2-pentanol
4-Methyl-2-pentanol (IUPAC name: 4-methylpentan-2-ol) or methyl isobutyl carbinol (MIBC) is an organic chemical compound used primarily as a frother in mineral flotation.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_extraction
