The smelter produces blister copper 98% Cu for shipment to the copper refinery and a slow cooled Bessemer matte 75% Cu Ni which is separated at the matte separation plant into nickel sulfides mainly heazlewoodite metallics and copper sulfide chalcocite
Get PriceThe complicated scheduling and the overall benefits to the Smelter are reviewed here as part of the on going tradition of industry support INTRODUCTION The Glencore Nickel Sudbury Smelter operates a Roast Reduction Smelting RRS flow sheet with a specialized Converter Aisle operation that maximizes metal recovery to Bessemer matte
Get PriceThe major trend in copper smelting and converting is towards improved capture of the SO2 that is evolved from oxidizing CuFeS 2 and other copper sulfide minerals Improved SO 2 capture benefits the environment and the resulting H 2 SO 4 product can be used for leaching oxide and supergene sulfide minerals The improved SO 2 capture has
Get PriceThe ISASMELT process is an energy efficient smelting process that was jointly developed from the 1970s to the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines a subsidiary of MIM Holdings and now part of Glencore and the Government of Australia s CSIRO It has relatively low capital and operating costs for a smelting process ISASMELT technology has been applied to lead copper and nickel smelting As of 2024 22
Get PriceCopper Smelting An Overview H R Traulsen J C Taylor and D B George SUMMARY Investment costs for copper smelter projects have Tlsen substantially in recent years and there are a number of factors which must be taken into account when considering a new smelting facility or modernizing an existing operation
Get Pricesulphuric acid plant—the challenge At pyrometallurgical smelters based on sulphidic ore concentrates of copper nickel lead or zinc it is traditional practice to process the SO2 off gas to sulphuric acid The growing awareness of environmental protection has lead to increasingly stringent regulations primarily aiming at the reduction of SO2
Get PriceMineable platinum group metal PGM deposits are rare and found in relatively few areas of the world At the same time the use of PGM is predicted to expand in green technology and energy applications and PGMs are consequently currently listed as European Union critical metals Increased mineralogical complexity lower grade ores and recent PGM production expansions give rise to the
Get PriceMMC Norilsk Nickel NORNICKEL SHUTS DOWN SMELTER IN NIKEL TOWN 23 Dec 2024 / 14 01 MSK Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement transmitted by EQS Group The issuer is solely responsible April 9 2024
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Get Priceon the characteristics of the ore—complex ores may contain lead zinc nickel and other metals— and on whether facilities are in place for captur ing and converting the sulfur dioxide SO 2 emissions may range from less than 4 kilo grams per metric ton kg/t of copper to 2 000 kg/t of copper Particulate emissions can range
Get PriceThe initial stage in the recovery of the platinum metals is to smelt to a copper nickel iron matte in a series of blast furnaces This matte is then tapped periodically into ladles transferred to a group of converters and blown to a high grade matte which is cast into moulds and then broken up in a jaw crusher
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Get PriceCopper cake processing will be carried out at copper shop of NMZ in the Vanyukov furnace converters and anode furnaces with the receipt of copper anodes The total volume of investments of Norilsk Nickel into updating of NMZ will make up $1 3 billion Translated by Iraida Idiyatova
Get PriceSensors and process control systems are essential for process automation and optimization Many sectors have adapted to the Industry 4 0 paradigm but copper smelters remain hesitant to implement these technologies without appropriate justification as many critical functions remain subject to ground operator experience Recent experiments and industrial trials using radiometric optoelectronic
Get PriceThe fire treatment of oxide ore is the nickel iron method 1 Introduction to the process requirements of the user s smelting system The main processes for smelting nickel sulfide concentrate are as follows 1 Smelting After the nickel concentrate is dried and desulfurized it is sent to the smelting blast furnace for smelting
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Get PriceToday Altonorte has a reverberatory furnace three Pierce Smith converters two anode furnaces and a new Outokumpu casting wheel plus two sulphuric gas acid plants and an over the fence oxygen supply of 283 tonnes per day The current capacity is 400 000 tonnes per year of concentrate feed to make 160 000 tonnes of copper metal in copper anodes
Get PriceThe converter is a cylindrical steel shell normally about four metres in diameter and lined with refractory brick After being charged with matte flux and copper scrap to control temperature the converter is rotated in order to immerse tuyeres in the molten bath Air or oxygen enriched air is then blown through the tuyeres into the fluid
Get PriceThe proposed Copper Smelter II project is a green field project Production Capacity The production capacity of Copper Smelter Plant II is presented in Table 1 TABLE 1 DETAILS OF PRODUCTION CAPACITY S No Products Units Plant II I Main Products 1 Copper Anode TPD 1200 2 Copper Cathode from anodes produced TPD 1525
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Get PriceTHE MATTE IS CONVERTED TO BLISTER COPPER IN EIGHT HORIZONTAL 80 TON CAPACITY CONVERTERS WHICH ARE FUELLED BY NATURAL GAS AND AIR WITHOUT ANY OXYGEN ENRICHMENT THE GASES ARE THEN RELEASED TO THE ATMOSPHERE ALL OF THE COPPER BLISTER IS FIRE REFINED IN TWO 5 4 METER DIAMETER REVERBERATORY TYPE FURNACES THE COPPER IS FINALLY CAST INTO ANODES
Get Priceenlarged to treat 11 000 tons of ore per day The Copper Cliff smelter produced 149 000 tons obssemer matte and 139 796 tons of blister copper This plant was extended during the year and two reverberatory furnaces and seven converters installed thus bringing the total smelter equipment to seven reverberatory furnaces and nineteen converters
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Get PricePrimary copper smelting is a single part of the copper production process which produces a single product 99 9 percent pure copper which can then be refined and fabricated 2 3 MAJOR BY PRODUCTS CO PRODUCTS AND SUBSTITUTION POSSIBILITIES The copper smelting process generates slag waste materials remaining after the copper is concentrated and
Get PriceSmelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to extract a base metal It is a form of extractive metallurgy It is used to extract many metals from their ores including silver iron copper and other base metals Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal base behind
Get Price1 Wide adaptability to raw material from iron copper copper nickel zinc lead and zinc lead complex concentrate; 2 Application of rich oxygen air blast offers high smelting temperature enhances hearth capacity and generates high concentration SO 2 gas suitable for sulfuric acid making; 3
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Get PriceSuperbMelt platinum melting furnace SPB B is a totally ingenious technological creation which is designed with the aim of providing superior melting action on precious metals like platinum gold palladium or alloys of these metals This platinum smelting furnace can reach a temperature of about 2600℃ It is about 900℃ higher than the
Get Price12 3 Primary Copper Smelting 12 3 1 General1 Copper ore is produced in 13 states In 1989 Arizona produced 60 percent of the total U S ore Fourteen domestic mines accounted for more than 95 percent of the 1 45 megagrams Mg 1 6 millon tons of ore produced in 1991 Copper is produced in the U S primarily by pyrometallurgical smelting
Get Pricereduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from primary copper smelters Air toxics are those pollutants known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects C Primary copper smelting is the industry which refines copper concentrate from mined ore to anode grade copper using pyrometallic processes Smelting includes the handling and
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