Increasing demand for efficient building systems, electric vehicles and renewables generation could add more than 4 million tonnes of annual copper use by 2030, a study shows.
The primary goal is to pick a diluent that would yield you the highest concentrations of copper from your process, because that’s the actual final outcome that the mine is going for.
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