The ISASMELT process is an energy-efficient smelting process that was jointly developed from the 1970s to the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines (a subsidiary of...
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Copper extraction (section ISASMELT)
favored, and uses the following smelting technologies: flash smelting, Isasmelt, Noranda, Mitsubishi or El Teniente furnaces. The initial melting of the...
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innovations, including the Isa Process copper refining technology, the Isasmelt smelting technology, and the IsaMill fine grinding technology, and it also...
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Cyprus Minerals installed an ISASMELT furnace in its copper smelter. This was the first large-scale installation of the ISASMELT process, which was developed...
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role, first by flash furnaces and more recently also by the Ausmelt and ISASMELT furnaces, they are very effective at producing slags with low copper losses...
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Cyprus Minerals installed an ISASMELT furnace in its copper smelter. This was the first large-scale installation of the ISASMELT process, which was developed...
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reverberatory and rotary kiln furnaces produce semisoft lead (3–4% antimony). The ISASMELT process is a more recent smelting method that may act as an extension to...
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refining are referred to as "fire refining". Blast furnace Flash smelting Isasmelt furnace Reverberatory furnace Brent Hiskey "Metallurgy, Survey" in Kirk-Othmer...
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subsidiary, Britannia Refined Metals, at Northfleet in England; and the ISASMELT top-entry submerged lance smelting process, Jameson Cell flotation technology...
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is via a bell top. Blast furnace Reverberatory furnace Flash smelting ISASMELT "Water Jacket Heater/INDIRECT HEATER_Luoyang Runcheng Petrochemical Equipment...
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furnaces. Some examples of bath smelters include the Noranda furnace, the Isasmelt furnace, the Teniente reactor, the Vunyukov smelter, and the SKS technology...
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Built in 1927, the smelter melts the copper mixed with limestone in the Isasmelt furnace. The copper is pressurised by the air, then oxidised, and finally...
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royalties from this now ubiquitous product. 1973 – Sirosmelt lance and the ISASMELT process – The Sirosmelt lance was invented Dr Bill Denholm and Dr John...
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5%. The smelter smelts the copper concentrate mixed with silica in the Isasmelt furnace. The product from the ISA furnace is matte and slag which goes...
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Of all the processes of this type that have been developed, a single ISASMELT-type industrial unit built in Australia, with a capacity of 0.8 Mt/year...
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need for high pressure, expensive reagents or bacteria. C R Fountain, ‘Isasmelt and IsaMills—models of successful R&D,’ in: Young Leaders’ Conference,...
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