Copper ore, usually in the form of malachite, needs to be refined through a chemical reaction, rather than a mechanical separation as with washing. It needs to be ground and heated to separate out the copper metal from the compound.
any metal that is naturally found in the earth has an ore. iron ore, copper ore, gold, silver. etc. bronze does not have an ore, because it is a mixture of copper and tin, both naturally occurring metals. find a image of a Periodic Table of Elements via Google. everything from the squiggly line on the right, to the third row to the left, and in between has an ore...except mercury, its a liquid good luck
One reason is because it resists corrosion and another reason is that it can easily be made into pipes for hot and cold water, oil, etc. However, compared to modern plastic materials, copper is much more expensive to use: its ore must first be mined, then the ore has to be smelted and refined into metal pipes, wires, etc. So nowadays, for drainpipes, plastic pipes are used instead of copper.
The Enterprise mine, a copper ore mine located at Mt Isa Mines, is currently Australia's deepest mine. Its shaft is 1,900m deep.
Metals are extracted from their ore through chemical reaction. Iron ore is an oxide of iron. The oxygen is removed from the ore by heating carbon with the ore to create molten iron and Carbon Dioxide.
This is the open pit mine. Surveys are conducted (including drilling) and mapping is done. Then, with the location of the ore bodies pinpointed, material is removed, drilling and blasting create the ore pile, and the ore is loaded and hauled to the crusher. From there is it off to the processing plant.
copper ore is usually in the form of malachite, needs to be refined through chemical method.
a copper ore
Copper ore is called CHALCOPYRITE.
To separate copper from its ore, the process is called smelting. The copper and ore are heated and the copper turns to liquid which is then poured from the smelter.
In the next step, called concentrating, the powder is mixed with water and chemicals, which cause copper sulfide ores to float to the top, where they may be separated from some of the other minerals.
The mineral malachite is an ore of copper.
A refinery separates copper from its ore.
Most copper ore occurs as copper in combination with oxygen, yes.
Concentration of ore Unwanted rocks, sand and grit from the mineral ore are called gangue or matrix. These have to be removed so that the mineral ore is concentrated with higher percentage of metal. Ores are mined from deep within the earth's crust in the form of rocks. The minerals are embedded in these rocks. The rocks are first crushed into smaller pieces by crushers. Then they are ground to powder by ball mill and other processes so that powdered ore is obtained. Depending on the type of ore, hydraulic washing, froth floatation process, magnetic separation and chemical separation techniques are applied for concentrating an ore.
Copper Ore.
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It depends upon nature of ore the most common ore of copper is Copper pyrite CuFeS2. the extraction of copper from this ore involves the following steps, 1-crushing, 2-grinding, 3-concentration of ore, 4-roastiong, 5-smelting, 6- preparation of blister copper and 7- electrorefining of blister copper.