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Publications

How Do They Do That?

This page explains many of the basic processes and components in the mining and production of copper.

Sep. '98
How Do They Do That? Making Copper Plumbing Tube
A tour of a modern copper tube mill illustrating how copper plumbing materials are produced.

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
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
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.

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Innovations was developed to cover technological changes involving copper.

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