Copper losses to slags obtained from the El Teniente process

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section C: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Imris, I ^a   Sanchez M ^b   Achurra, G ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c Smelter Business Unit   (Chile)

Author keywords

Copper loss to slag; El Teniente process; Pyrometallurgy

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; METALLURGICAL FURNACES; PYROMETALLURGY; SLAGS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR FLOW RATE; COPPER LOSS TO SLAG; EI TENIENTE PROCESS; MATTE PHASE;

COPPER SMELTING;

EID: 27544471768     PISSN: 03719553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037195505X49769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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