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2014, 14.2 million metric tons of copper were produced through pyrometallurgy, while 4.1 million metric tons was produced through hydrometallurgical processes [3]. Therefore, for the case study in this article the authors used the pyrometallurgical route of copper processing as the case study. Typical ore flow in a mine
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1. Introduction. The use of renewable energy (RE) in the copper industry is not new. For example, there are power purchase agreements (energy contracts) for renewable electricity supply (e.g. wind power for the Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile (Choi and Song, 2017)).Solar heat plants are also in use, such as the Pampa Elvira …
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