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Copper Project to Trial Dry Separation

Water availability is becoming a constraint on copper production in a number of key regions. To address this AMIRA has created P902A to develop a commercially efficient process for the dry separation of copper-bearing material from barren gangue.

Substantial advances have been made in dry separation of other materials most notably coal and some of these processes appear capable of being adapted to treat copper ores. To choose the most suitable target for a development program, AMIRA assessed three known technologies:

Sunday 29 July, 2007 01:16 PM

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