Copper Tailings - Elmhurst College
The concentrated ore, now called copper concentrate, is dewatered and dried to about 10% moisture content. It is shipped by truck to the Asarco smelter in Hayden, Arizona. (The El Paso smelter is on stand-by status). Water is recovered from the tailings in another thickener. The thickened tailings flow by gravity in large pipes to tailings ponds, where the solid material settles out and ...
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