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Bor copper slag

Smelter slag from the Bor copper operation in eastern Serbia, studied as a flotation feed in its own right. A secondary material: it is a residue of a process rather than a product of the ground, and its copper is what an earlier process failed to take.

Classification

material class
SECONDARY_MATERIAL
physical form
SLAG
primary commodity entity id
entity:copper-commodity

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Establishedabout 20 per cent higher copper recovery from slag with 9 per cent old tailings added, batch cell

Measured at this deposit

Batch flotation testwork on Bor copper slag reports that adding old flotation tailings in the ball mill at a rate of 9 per cent increases copper recovery by about 20 per cent relative to the recovery obtained from pure copper slag. The work was done in a laboratory batch flotation cell, and six first-order kinetic models were tested against recovery versus flotation time, with the modified Kelsall model giving the best fit.

  • assertion basis: SUBJECT_MEASURED
  • definition basis: Batch flotation testwork reported in a peer-reviewed paper, with its comparator stated: recovery from pure copper slag.
  • locality: Bor copper mine, eastern Serbia.
  • temporal basis: Published 2014.
  • assumption: BENCH scale in a laboratory batch cell. A batch result is not a plant result, the 20 per cent is a relative increase against a stated comparator rather than an absolute recovery, and nothing here establishes that any plant has run this way.

Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence one source

Evidence: Stanojlović 2014 Peer-reviewed

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Record last updated 2026-09-11. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.