Development trends of the copper industry
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As the financial crisis unfolds, what will be the future path for China’s copper industry? Readers are welcome to share their opinions. Let’s all discuss it.
Integrated recovery, continuous smelting, and slurry electrolysis should be the development directions.
Vigorously promote the all-wet copper smelting process
The third challenge is to overcome cost issues; Academician Qiu has worked hard for so many years, but unfortunately it has not yet been put into large-scale industrial use
It’s time to vigorously promote wet methods!
The pyrometallurgical process has irreplaceable advantages; research and development, as well as the adoption of new types of metallurgical furnaces, should be accelerated, while blast furnaces with high energy consumption and low efficiency should be shut down. Accelerate industry restructuring to create leading enterprises. Strengthen enterprise management and improve efficiency
There is great potential for the secondary recycling of copper resources. It is an undeniable fact that copper mines are becoming increasingly scarce, and it is necessary to gradually shift some efforts toward secondary recycling. At present, China still lags far behind developed countries in this area. :L