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    The ISASMELT process is an energy-efficient smelting process that was jointly developed from the 1970s to the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines (a subsidiary of...
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    favored, and uses the following smelting technologies: flash smelting, Isasmelt, Noranda, Mitsubishi or El Teniente furnaces. The initial melting of the...
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    role, first by flash furnaces and more recently also by the Ausmelt and ISASMELT furnaces, they are very effective at producing slags with low copper losses...
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  • innovations, including the Isa Process copper refining technology, the Isasmelt smelting technology, and the IsaMill fine grinding technology, and it also...
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    Cyprus Minerals installed an ISASMELT furnace in its copper smelter. This was the first large-scale installation of the ISASMELT process, which was developed...
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  • Cyprus Minerals installed an ISASMELT furnace in its copper smelter. This was the first large-scale installation of the ISASMELT process, which was developed...
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  • refining are referred to as "fire refining". Blast furnace Flash smelting Isasmelt furnace Reverberatory furnace Brent Hiskey "Metallurgy, Survey" in Kirk-Othmer...
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    reverberatory and rotary kiln furnaces produce semisoft lead (3–4% antimony). The ISASMELT process is a more recent smelting method that may act as an extension to...
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    furnaces. Some examples of bath smelters include the Noranda furnace, the Isasmelt furnace, the Teniente reactor, the Vunyukov smelter, and the SKS technology...
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  • Built in 1927, the smelter melts the copper mixed with limestone in the Isasmelt furnace. The copper is pressurised by the air, then oxidised, and finally...
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