Copper: the economics?
…cast into anodes for electrochemical refining, yielding copper cathodes with 99.99% purity. Copper cathode is one of the most traded metals on Earth, underpinning the LME copper contract, as pure…
Copper companies: a screen of leading producers?
…average company produces around 0.8MTpa of copper, has a 30 year reserve life, and derives 30% of its EBITDA from copper. Global copper demand rises from 30MTpa in 2023 to 42MTpa by…
Copper: global demand forecasts?
…Copper Council. Copper demand intensity factors. Copper use in wind, copper use in solar, copper use in electric vehicles and copper use in power grids — transmission and distribution —…
Jetti Resources: copper leaching breakthrough?
…technology extracts copper from low-grade sulfides, which make up 70% of the world’s copper resources, worth $20trn, such as chalcopyrite, the most common copper mineral ore. However, these challenging ores…
Aurubis: copper recycling breakthrough?
Aurubis Technology Review. Aurubis recycles scrap metals and concentrates into high-purity products, mostly copper products. The company is listed in Germany, has 7,200 employees and revenues of €16bn in 2021, …
Bioleaching: case studies and examples?
…(CuS) and other easily leached minerals. Historically, these higher recovery rates have also been achieved on low-grade copper resources, averaging 0.5% copper, and sometimes as low as 0.3%. Conversely, chalcopyrites…
Power cables: carrying capacity and loss rates?
…but does require more complexity in the form of substations and transformers. Copper Use in Power Transmission in tons per km or tons per mile x Copper is used in…
Recycling: a global overview of energy savings?
…by Hindalco. Copper recycling has mixed numbers. In absolute terms, around one-third of the world’s 28MTpa copper demand comes from secondary sources. And, secondary production saves c75% of the energy…
Bill of materials: electronic devices and data-centers?
…could reduce copper use to 10 tons/MW, albeit this would still tighten global copper balances by around 1% per year through 2030. The ability to thrift out bulk material intensity…
Solar contacts: silver bullet?
…silver and copper solar contacts is therefore that silver prices will spike, then this will ultimately motivate the industry to dampen the inflationary impacts, by switching out silver for copper….