CNMC solves a world-level tricky issue in industrialized production of copper-cobalt alloy
2017-08-01 17:56:04 [Print]
Zambia-based CCS, a subsidiary company of China Nonferrous Metals Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. (CNMC), announced recently that its vessel-slag cobalt recycling project (“the Project”) had successfully produced copper-cobalt alloy products with cobalt content at 10.56%, which were the first of the kind in the world produced with cobalt-matte magnetic separation technique, an industrialized and comprehensive recycling technique for cobalt metal.
The Project consisted of two parts: vessel-slag electric reduction furnace sub-project and 50,000tpy high cobalt-matte processing sub-project. In particular, the first sub-project has an annual capacity of processing 100,000t of copper-smelting vessel slag, and the second sub-project, with an annual capacity of processing 50,000t of high cobalt and matte, has a designed production capacity of 10,400tpy of copper-cobalt alloy and 34,700tpy of copper concentrate.
Success that the CCS vessel slag cobalt recycling project has achieved is the first success ever claimed by similar projects around the world, and indicates that CNMC thus becomes the first enterprise in the world which owns the industrialized and comprehensive recycling technique for cobalt metal, cobalt-matte magnetic separation technique.
The Project consisted of two parts: vessel-slag electric reduction furnace sub-project and 50,000tpy high cobalt-matte processing sub-project. In particular, the first sub-project has an annual capacity of processing 100,000t of copper-smelting vessel slag, and the second sub-project, with an annual capacity of processing 50,000t of high cobalt and matte, has a designed production capacity of 10,400tpy of copper-cobalt alloy and 34,700tpy of copper concentrate.
Success that the CCS vessel slag cobalt recycling project has achieved is the first success ever claimed by similar projects around the world, and indicates that CNMC thus becomes the first enterprise in the world which owns the industrialized and comprehensive recycling technique for cobalt metal, cobalt-matte magnetic separation technique.
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