wats the cost of copper production? detailed plz...?

Question

as per above if u can the difference between the oxide and sulfide extraction

okok it doesnt have to b detailed but pretty recent

Answer 1

I will be amazed if you get a detailed answer to your questions here.. Anyway, I worked in a copper smelter in Mexico around 10 years ago, the production cost used to be around $0.60 dollars per pound. the ore was sulfide and the process included crushing, grinding,froth flotation, drying, smelting, conversion refining and casting. However I remember that production cost varied significantly with the labor cost, price of oil, ore grade and many other things. If you are seriously interested perhaps the following book may help you:

Book title: "Extractive Metallurgy of copper"
Authors: Biswas and Davenport

I am pretty sure you can get it at amazon.com