Copper slag, generated mainly during copper smelting, and classified as a potentially
harmful waste, is an important secondary resource containing not only valuable metals, such …

Copper slag waste has continued to cause increasing concerns due to the huge volumes
being produced annually worldwide. This paper presents a review of copper slag as a …

Slag is a waste product from the pyrometallurgical processing of various ores. Based on
over 150 published studies, this paper provides an overview of mineralogical and …

Smelting activity by its very nature produces large amounts of metal-bearing waste, often
called metallurgical slag (s). In the past, industry used to dispose of these waste products at …

Understanding the level of heavy metal contamination coupled with the assessment of
environmental and human risks associated with mine waste dumpsites is an important step …

The long-term availability of mineral resources is crucial in underpinning human society,
technology and economic activity, and managing anthropogenic environmental impacts …

Flotation is one of the most important methods for recovering copper from copper slag,
However, traditional grinding may be over grinding sometimes, resulting in smaller interface …

The active Panasqueira mine is a tin–tungsten (Sn–W) mineralization hosted by
metasediments with quartz veins rich in ferberite. The economic exploitation has been …

The labyrinthine world of arsenic minerals has piqued the curiosity of many researchers in
mineralogy, geochemistry, chemistry, and environmental sciences. Arsenic was known to …

Cu-slags are a by-product of pyrometallurgical processing and contain elevated
concentrations of metallic elements that may be released during weathering. Hence, they …