Hydrometallurgical Copper Extraction (Oxide ores)

concentration/pyrometallurgy/electrorefining processes:

Procesos de concentración, Pirometalurgia y electrorefinación

Cu-sulfide ores: Minerales sulfurados de cobre

Heap Leaching: Lixiviación en pilas

aqueous solution: Solución acuosa

Chalcopyrite: Calcopirita

lixiviant : Lixiviante

run-of-mine ore

Solvent Extraction Transfer of Cu from Leach Solution to Electrolyte

pregnant leach solutions: solución rica de lixiviación

too dilute: demasiado diluida

too impure: demasiado impure

direct electrodeposition: electrodeposición directa

soft: suave

copper deposits: depositos de cobre

Cu-rich electrolytes: electrolitos ricos en cobre

The Solvent Extraction Process: proceso de extracción por solvente

Cu-specific liquid organic extractant

separating by gravity: separación por gravedas

Cu-loaded organic extractant: extractante organico cargado de cobre

mixer-settlers: mezcladores sedimentadores

Summary

dissolved Cu: cobre disuelto

low acid concentration: baja concentracion de acido

aldoximes and ketoximes: aldoximas y cetoximas

optimum extraction, strip and phase separation properties.

Electrowinning: electrodepositacion

immersing metal cathodes

electrical potential: potencial electrico

plating pure metallic copper: revestimiento de cobre metalico puro

corrode slowly: se corroen lentamente

iron: hierro

Sentences

1)Chalcopyrite is a sulfide ore that does not normally leach.

2) The aqueous solution that comes out of the heap leach contains impurities that are treated in
the subsequent processes