Smelter

Raw Material Handling

Copper concentrate is received by ship at a wharf which can accommodate concentrate ship carrying up to 35,000 tons.  A jetty, 2 km in length is constructed to reach water of sufficient depth.

 

A wharf constructed at the head of the jetty. An unloader with a clam shell bucket, coverage capacity 350 t/h, ship loader for slag, and reversible belt conveyors are installed. Unloaded concentrate is delivered to concentrate storage yard (capacity 55,000 tons) after weighing and sampling automatically on the way.

 

Other materials like silica, lime stone and coal are normally received by truck and stored in the flux storage building. Converting furnace slag (C-slag) is also stored in the flux building. Fluxes are then transferred by a belt conveyor to the each flux bin in the smelter and a belt scale weighs the fluxes on the way to the flux bins.