Treatment of copper smelting and refining wastes

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• Personal Author:
  Gritton, Kenneth S. ; Odedirk, S. B. ; Steele, Donald K.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  "The domestic primary copper industry generates in excess of 600 million metric tons of mining and mineral-processing waste annually. The U.S. Bureau of Mines has researched methods to mitigate the environmental threat posed by copper-processing wastes while recovering valuable metals from these materials. Acid-leach processing of flue dusts has been demonstrated feasible along with sulfide treatment of liquid refinery wastes and acid-plant-bleed and gas-cleaning solutions to precipitate dissolved metals. In addition, the feasibility of removing copper and molybdenum from slag, as well as stabilization of precipitated sulfide wastes by vitrification has been investigated." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 20039369
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  ii, 13 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039369
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:57abc88fa65cf44f34fd3703af87466e6aef4cdb9f88e44fd062c8d8c69f673a2a9144c1777fa6d848adf4744e2420ef238b0ee996495cb293438f5c869f2cf1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10270/cdc_10270_DS1.pdf
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