Copper ore crusher:

Copper ore is mined from a open pit mine. After the copper mine is blasted, it will be loaded and transported to the primary crusher at the copper ore beneficiation plant.

Copper ore beneficiation plant consists of primary crusher, secondary crusher, tertiary crusher, fineness crusher and other auxiliary equipment.

As a professional stone crusher, grinding mill manufacturer in China, SBM Machinery supply all kind mineral crushers from primary crusher to fineness crusher. The major crushing equipment used at beneficiation plant to process copper ore are: jaw crusher, impact crusher, cone crusher.

The truck dumps ore into the crusher which crushes the ore. Screens size and distribute the classified ore to a series of conveyors, When the copper ore is crushed down to size less than 2mm in diameter, it will be transported to the grinding mill for further processing.

SBM Machinery has manufactured ball mill, trapezium mill, Raymond mill etc. to produce copper ore powder.

Our grinding mill can grind the crushed copper ore down to size less than 0.5mm, which is suitable for be using at flotation cells.

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Copper mining and processing means a basic copper mine process, from mine to metal. There are two distinct types of copper ore, the sulfide ore and the oxide ore. The sulfide ores are beneficiated in flotation cells, while the oxide ores are generally leached. First the copper ore from a open pit mine is blasted, loaded and transported to the primary crushers. 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 crushed copper 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 SX process concentrates and purifies the copper leach solution so the copper can be recovered at a high electrical current efficiency by the electrowinning cells.

Copper mine in the Bingham Canyon pit is now 4km across and very deep. The copper mining uses a rotary drilling/blasting – shovel/truck – in-pit crushing system, with two to four blasts per day. To contain costs, management has been quick to utilise the most cost-effective drilling, loading and haulage equipment and management tools available.

One of the first of the recent series of major investments was an in-pit, semi-mobile gyratory crushing unit linked to the Copperton Concentrator by an 8km conveyor system. This reduced haulage distances from the working faces substantially but even so the mine needs a large fleet of Caterpillar mechanical drive and Komatsu electric-drive trucks, mostly of 218t-capacity, to service ten P&H electric rope shovels.

Dispatching is by the Modular Mining computerised system and Bingham also utilises Thunderbird Pacific's drill monitoring and logging systems. Both GPS and Glonass are used for precise drill positioning. Germany's MAN Takraf has upgraded and relocated the semi-mobile in-pit crushing plant and conveyor system to keep trucking distances down.

The Copperton concentrator was expanded in 1992 and fitted with some of the world’s largest SAG and ball mills, and large flotation cells. There are four grinding and flotation lines, sequentially yielding a copper and molybdenum concentrate. The copper concentrate is piped about 27km to the smelter. Until its closure in mid-2001, the older North plant supplied about 20% of the copper concentrate for smelting.

The current smelting facilities are the result of major investment, comprising a new primary flash smelter and flash converter system, designed by Outokumpu with input from Kennecott, plus a slag treatment plant. The converter treats matte that has been granulated and powdered. The 98.6% copper from the new converter is refined to 99.5% copper in two anode furnaces.

Cast anodes are railed about 3km to the refinery’s electrolytic tankhouse, where marketable high-purity copper is produced and the gold and silver content of the concentrate is also recovered.