
MINING TO SMELTING - GOLD/COPPER CONCENTRATES …
Copper concentrate smelting is a large scale, intensive process consisting of four stages: sulphur in the sulphide minerals is “burnt-off”; the metals are melted to form a “matte” and the waste material forms a “slag”; copper in the matte is electro-refined to copper metal; and the gold/silver is refined to doré.
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