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Copper rock is mined either at via open pit mines or underground mines. The beginning for all copper is to mine sulfide and oxide rocks through digging or blasting and then crushing. In the crushing process, the copper rock is broken into small grain sizes of less than 25 centimeters in diameter by primary crusher, then crushing it to walnut-sized pieces by secondary crusher or fineness crusher.
Joyal is a professional copper rock benefication equipment manufacturer and supplier, our copper rock crushing fleet contains: PE jaw crusher (primary crusher), JC jaw crusher (Secondary crusher), PF impact crusher, PFW impact crusher (secondary crusher), cone crusher (fineness crusher),VSI crusher (fineness crusher). We also can supply portable crusher and mobile crusher to the clients according to the demands. After the crushing process, the crushed copper rock will be taken to the concentrator for grinding into fine powder.
Copper rock grinding mill
Ball mill plays an important role in the copper rock grinding process. Joyal ball mill is an efficient tool for grinding walnut-sized copper rock into powder. There are two ways of grinding: the dry process and the wet process. It can be divided into tabular type and flowing type according to different forms of discharging material.
The final copper rock powder produced by Joyal ball mill usually contains less than 1 percent copper, while sulfide rocks are moved to a concentrating stage, while oxide rocks are routed to leaching tanks.
Copper rock beneficiation process
To mine copper, the first step is to blast the copper rock from a open pit mine, then loaded and transported to the crushing plant. In a large-scale copper rock beneficiation plant, crushing plant and grinding plant is needed. In the crusher, the rock is broken into smaller pieces of less than 25 centimeters in diameter. Crushed rock is then loaded on to a conveyor belt which takes it to the concentrator. In the concentrator, primary SAG mill (We do not manufacture) and secondary ball mills grind the rock until it is a fine powder, Then the copper rock is crushed and screened, with the fine sulfide rock going to froth flotation cells for recovery of copper.
Copper rock
Copper mining and extraction also results in the extraction of gold, silver and molybdenum. Copper is found in nearly every home and vehicle, in parts and appliances, and in instruments used in all aspects of modern living, infrastructure and technology. In many respects, modern life would not have been possible without copper. The use of copper and its principal alloys, bronze and brass, has been part of human progress since the Stone Age 60 centuries ago.
Copper rock is widely distributed in Chile, USA, Peru, Mongolia, Indonesia, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, China, Poland, Zambia, Russia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Philippines. In Pakistan, copper rock is widely distributed in Saindak, Chagai, Waziristan area etc.
(2) Dense compact copper rock copper rock flotation machine chalcopyrite and pyrite as tight symbiosis, pyrite is often of secondary copper-activated pyrite content is high, difficult to inhibit the separation difficult. Sorting process required by copper concentrate and concentrate at the same time. Usually after the election of copper tailings is pyrite concentrate. If the rock gangue content of mrock than 20% to 25%, sulfur concentrate needed to get re-sorting ball mill. Dense copper rock processing, we often uses two stages of grinding or grinding, grinding fineness requirements smaller. Also larger amount of reagent, xanthate dosage 100g / (t rock) above, lime 8 ~ 10kg (t rock) above.
Most copper rocks contain only a small percentage of copper metal bound up within valuable rock minerals, with the remainder of the rock being unwanted rock or gangue minerals, typically silicate minerals or oxide minerals for which there is often no value. The average grade of copper rocks in the 21st century is below 0.6% Cu, with a proportion of rock minerals being less than 2% of the total volume of the rock rock. A key objective in the metallurgical treatment of any rock is the separation of rock minerals from gangue minerals within the rock.
The first stage of any process within a metallurgical treatment circuit is comminution, where the rock particles are reduced in size such that rock particles can be efficiently separated from gangue particles, thereafter followed by a process of physical liberation of the rock minerals from the rock. The process of liberation of copper rocks depends upon whether they are oxide or sulfide rocks.
For oxide rocks, a hydrometallurgical liberation process is normally undertaken, which uses the soluble nature of the rock minerals to the advantage of the metallurgical treatment plant. For sulfide rocks, both secondary (supergene) and primary (unweathered), froth flotation is utilised to physically separate rock from gangue. For special native copper bearing rock bodies or sections of rock bodies rich in supergen native copper, this mineral can be recovered by a simple gravity circuit.
The above flowsheet shows a basic copper mine process, from mine to metal. There are two distinct types of copper rock, the sulfide rock and the oxide rock. The sulfide rocks are beneficiated in flotation cells, while the oxide rocks are generally leached. First the copper rock from a open pit mine is blasted, loaded and transported to the primary crushers. Then the rock is crushed and screened, with the fine sulfide rock (~-0.5 mm) going to froth flotation cells for recovery of copper. The coarser rock 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 SX process concentrates and purifies the copper leach solution so the copper can be recovered at a high electrical current efficiency by the electro winning cells. It does this by adding a chemical reagent to the SX tanks which selectively binds with and extracts the copper, is easily separated from the copper (stripped), recovering as much of the reagent as possible for re-use. The concentrated copper solution is dissolved in sulfuric acid and sent to the electrolytic cells for recovery as copper plates (cathodes). From the copper cathodes, it is manufactured into wire, appliances, etc. that are used in everyday life.
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