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1997 Archive
Dec. '97
Copper Alloy Molds:
Why Didn't Someone Tell Me Sooner?
Dec. '97
Direct Exchange Thermal Systems:
The Wave Of The Future
Dec. '97
The Metallurgy of Copper Wire
A technical discussion of pertinent developments spanning the past several decades in the copper wire industry.
Nov. '97
How Do They Do That? Bringing Copper to Market
Step-by-step guide (with basic illustrations) from mining to shipping to smelting to trading to examples of how copper is used on a daily basis.
Nov. '97
How Do They Do That? In Situ Mining
Step-by-step guide (with basic illustrations) covering purpose and construction of in-situ copper mines.
Nov. '97
Big Blue Goes Copper
IBM's adoption of the CMOS (Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) manufacturing process in order to take advantage of copper's superior electrical and thermal conductivity.
Nov. '97
How Do They Do That? How Copper is Made
Step-by-step guide (with basic illustrations) travels from mine to mill crushing plant to mill concentrator to smelter to electrolytic refinery to rod plant or external customers. Also, oxide leaching and solvent extraction-electrowinning.
Nov. '97
Millions of Dollars Saved With Non-Traditional Shutdown Procedures
Details of the innovative "seven-day mini-shutdown" procedures developed and adopted by one of the world's largest and most productive copper smelters which is saving millions and increasing capacity without constructing new smelters.
Nov. '97
How Do They Do That? Wringing Sulfuric Acid out of Sulfur Dioxide Emissions
Step-by-step guide (with basic illustrations) showing how gas sulfur dioxide (a by-product of copper smelting) is made into sulfuric acid, the largest volume chemical in use in the world today.
Nov. '97
Traditional Pyrometallurgical Treatment of Concentrate
Review of copper mining technologies past and a look at new technologies of present and future.
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