copper mining and processing from mine to copper plate
Then the ore is crushed and screened, with the fine sulfide ore ~ 0.5 mm going to froth flotation cells for recovery of copper. The coarser ore goes to the heap leach, where the copper is subjected to a dilute sulfuric acid solution to dissolve the copper. Then the leach solution containing the dissolved copper is subjected to a process called solvent extraction SX. The


































