Heavy metals can leach into drinking water from plumbing and service lines, mining operations, petroleum refineries, electronics manufacturers, municipal waste disposal, cement plants, and natural mineral deposits. Heavy metals include: arsenic, antimony, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, selenium and many more.
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Arsenic was released from glassy silicates and combined with a copper-bearing phase to form copper–arsenic alloy during mineral phase reconstruction, which significantly increased arsenic recovery by 39.34 % and slightly increased copper recovery. The synchronous enrichment of copper and arsenic effectively reduces the …
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As the world's largest copper exporter, Chile is encountering a growing number of sulfur-based ore layers containing toxic arsenic in its copper mines.
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Arsenic from mineral deposits can also be solubilized and be present in groundwater, where it presents a health and environmental hazard, and in the sea, where it can be taken up by marine animals in the form of arseno-betaines. ... Most British arsenic was a by-product of copper mining in Devon, which flourished from the middle of the ...
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Selective oxidation of minerals was investigated as a means to separate by flotation the copper sulfide minerals of chalcocite, covellite and chalcopyrite from the arsenic copper sulfide minerals ...
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Copper is often associated with arsenic in mixed sulphide minerals such as enargite (Cu3AsS4) and tennantite (Cu12As4S13). Enargite, in particular, is the principal mineral in many deep epithermal copper–gold deposits. Most mining companies avoid exploiting such resources, because the arsenic can become a serious environmental …
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Despite extensive research, the rejection of arsenic minerals in copper flotation is still a challenge. Arsenic sulphide mineralogy in copper deposits has been reviewed by Long et al. (2012). A range of arsenic minerals including arsenopyrite, tetrahedrite, tennantite and enargite occur in various copper deposits in the world.
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On the other hand, enargite and tennantite, the two major arsenic-bearing copper minerals in copper ores, contain a significant amount of copper, i.e., 48.4% and 51.6%, respectively (Long et al ...
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Arsenic is an element that occurs naturally in rocks & soil, water, air, and in plants and animals. Learn how we are exposed to arsenic and its link to cancer risk. ... Today workplace exposure to arsenic can still occur in some occupations that use arsenic, such as copper or lead smelting, wood treating, and glass manufacturing. Regulations ...
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Copper is often associated with arsenic in mixed sulphide minerals such as enargite (Cu 3 AsS 4) and tennantite (Cu 12 As 4 S 13). Enargite, in particular, is the principal mineral in many deep epithermal copper–gold deposits. ... The hydrometallurgical treatment of copper–arsenic-antimony resources has been done by atmospheric …
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A combination treatment using 0.1M H2O2 and 60 g/t of KAX at pH 9 enhanced the separation selectivity in the selective flotation of copper sulfide and arsenic-bearing copper minerals by producing a copper concentrate with the lowest arsenic grade and highest copper grade in tailings compared to those obtained from separated KAX and …
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Arsenic ranks twentieth among the elements in abundance in the earth's crust. The abundance of arsenic in the continental crust of the earth is generally given as 1.5–2 ppm. Thus, it is relatively scarce. Nevertheless, it is a major constituent of no fewer than 245 mineral species. Arsenic is found in high concentration in sulfide deposits, where it is …
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Table S1−S7 listed the chemical composition of the minerals mentioned above. Based on the mineral composition of the CS (Fig. 1 b) and the chemical composition of the mineral (Table S1−S7), the theoretical grades of arsenic and copper in the CS were calculated to be 0.38% and 5.02%, respectively.Fig. 1 c shows that the …
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Copper is often associated with arsenic in mixed sulphide minerals such as enargite (Cu 3 AsS 4) and tennantite (Cu 12 As 4 S 13). Enargite, in particular, is the …
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The common copper–arsenic bearing minerals in copper ores, enargite (Cu 3 AsS 4) and tennantite (Cu 12 As 4 S 13), contain significant amounts of copper; 48.4% and 51.6% respectively. Removal of these minerals from the concentrate removes valuable metal, hence income. There is a dearth of literature concerning the selective removal of ...
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The usage of copper (Cu) ores containing low or no arsenic (As) has reduced, and Cu ores containing high levels of As have emerged as vital mineral resources for Cu extraction and processing.
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The Eh–pH diagram of the system OHAsCu (Fig. 15.6a) shows the information currently available on the copper-water-arsenic mineral relation at 25 °C and 1 atmosphere total pressure. Native arsenic and native copper are stable under reducing conditions in a wide range of pH values.
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World Resources:7 Arsenic may be obtained from copper, gold, and lead smelter flue dust, as well as from roasting arsenopyrite, the most abundant ore mineral of arsenic. Arsenic has been recovered from orpiment and realgar in China, Peru, and the Philippines and from copper-gold ores in Chile, and arsenic was associated with gold ...
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In this study, an economical and eco-friendly light-enhanced removal system was proposed to simultaneously alleviate water contamination from arsenic and copper, …
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Recent research has demonstrated promising results showing the possibility of separating arsenic-copper sulphides from other copper minerals by controlling the potential of the flotation pulp.
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It has also been recovered from enargite, a copper mineral, from copper-gold ores, and has been associated with gold occurrences. The principal use of arsenic xide, or "white arsenic," is the production of chromated copper arsenide, a preservative used in treating lumber for nonresidential applications.
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Concentrates were collected after 1, 2, 4 and 8 min of flotation time and filtered through pre-weighed filters. The amount of copper and arsenic was determined by Inductively Coupled Plasma ŽICP. analysis. The ratio of arsenic to copper was then used to calculate the experimental percentage recovery of copper and copper–arsenic minerals.
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Natural sources: Rock/soil: Earth's crust contains (on average) 2-5 ppm arsenic, though some kinds of minerals have much higher concentrations of arsenic. Some examples of arsenic minerals are arsenopyrite, realgar, orpiment, arsenolite. Weathering of these minerals will result in some arsenic getting into water and air. Volcanic activity can …
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The common copper-arsenic bearing minerals in copper ores, enargite (Cu3AsS4) and tennantite (Cu12As4S13). contain significant amounts of copper: …
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Copper concentrates recently tested for mineralogy both measured about 0.44 percent arsenic content. This is above typical …
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Arsenic (As) is commonly associated with Cu ore minerals, with the resultant risk that As can be released offsite from mine tailings. We used synchrotron-based fluorescence X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) imaging to provide in situ, laterally-resolved speciation of As within tailings which differed in magnetite content …
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XPS results have shown that the better mineral separation obtained in this study with H 2 O 2 results from the surface of the arsenic minerals being more oxidised than the non-arsenic minerals. Arsenic oxides are more stable than copper oxides at pH 5.0 but they dissolve less than copper oxide in the presence of EDTA at pH 11.0.
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A much more difficult mineral processing challenge is the selective flotation of arsenic-bearing copper minerals (e.g., enargite, Cu 3 AsS 4, and tennantite, (Cu, Fe) …
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Copper is often associated with arsenic in mixed sulphide minerals such as enargite (Cu3AsS4) and tennantite (Cu12As4S13). Enargite, in particular, is the ... 2014; The copper industry is witnessing great interest in the development and utilization of copper-arsenic deposits. While most plants tend to use traditional processing …
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