Medium-temperature pressure leaching of copper concentrates - Part III: Commercial demonstration at Bagdad, Arizona

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 218-225

  Marsden, J O ^a   Wilmot, J C ^a   Mathern, D R ^b  

^a Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc   (United States)

^b Phelps Dodge   (United States)

Author keywords

Copper; Pressure leaching

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COPPER METALLURGY; ELECTROLYTES; LEACHING; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE;

COPPER SULFIDE CONCENTRATES; DIRECT ELECTROWINNING; SOLUTION EXTRACTION; TEMPERATURE PRESSURE LEACHING;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 36148932656     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403370     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Brewer, R.E., 2004, "Copper concentrate pressure leaching - plant scale-up from continuous lab testing," Minerals & Metallurgical Processing, Vol. 21, No. 4, November, pp. 202-208.
2. Marsden, J.O., Brewer, R.E., and Hazen, N., 2003, "Copper concentrate leaching developments by Phelps Dodge Corporation," Hydrometallurgy 2003: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium in Honor of Professor Ian Ritchie, Volume 2, Electrometallurgy and Environmental Hydrometallurgy, C.A. Young, A.M. Alfantazi, C.G. Anderson, D.B. Dreisinger, B. Harris and A. James, eds., The Metallurgical Society of AIME, pp. 1429-1446.
3. Marsden, J.O., and R.E. Brewer, 2003, "Hydrometallurgical processing of copper concentrates by Phelps Dodge at the Bagdad Mine in Arizona," ALTA 2003 Copper-8 Technical Proceedings, ALTA Metallurgical Services, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia.
4. Marsden, J.O., Wilmot, J.C., and Hazen, N., 2007a, "Medium-temperature pressure leaching of copper concentrates - Part I: Chemistry and initial process development," Minerals & Metallurgical Processing, Vol. 24, No. 4, November, pp. 193-204, SME, Littleton, Colorado.
5. Marsden, J.O., Wilmot, J.C., and Hazen, N., 2007b, "Medium-temperature pressure leaching of copper concentrates- Part II: Development of direct electrowinning and an acid autogenous process," Minerals & Metallurgical Processing, Vol. 24, No. 4, November, pp. 205-217, SME, Littleton, Colorado.
6. Wilmot, J.C., Smith, R.J., and Brewer, R.E., 2004a, "Start up and operation of the Phelps Dodge concentrate leach facility at the Bagdad Mine in Arizona," Hydro-Sulfides 2004-International Colloquium on Hydrometallurgical Processing of Copper Concentrates, April 16-19, 2004, Santiago, Chile.
7. Wilmot, J.C., Smith, R.J., and Brewer, R.E., 2004b, "Concentrate leach plant startup, operation and optimization at the Phelps Dodge Bagdad Mine in Arizona," Pressure Hydrometallurgy 2004 - International Conference on the Use of Pressure Vessels for Metals Extraction and Recovery, M.J. Collins and V.G. Papangelakis, eds., Banff, Alberta, Canada, October, 2004, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.