Frankly, the number is in the millions of dollars. When you consider that ONE of the off-road dump trucks used to haul ore from the pit to the processing plant is $350,000,and that it will burn $500 worth of fuel an hour, the costs are staggering.
Wel it takes one ton of copper ore to get 12 lbs of pure copper. Which is roughly $40 worth of copper retail value.
copper is extracted by smelting by taking the copper out and melting it down.
Copper is priced in terms of its mass, not its length.
It is environmentally friendly, provides jobs and is very economical.
Typically, you would use a flotation process to concentrate the copper and gold. Concentrate would be shipped to smelter for recovery of metals.
Through bioleaching, thermal decomposition, displacement, phytomining & electrolysis.
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Copper Ore.
Depends where you buy it.
How much 90 pounds of copper cost
Depends where you buy it.
It si much rarer and harder to extract
about 10,000 pounds per gram
20,0000 per minute
copper is extracted by smelting by taking the copper out and melting it down.
poo on it
thousands
a few dollars a pound