Session 1: What is the Role of a Copper Mine Consultant?

Copper mine process flowsheet
http://www.mine-engineer.com/mining/copperm.htm
http://www.mine-engineer.com/mining/small_copper.htm
Copper from mine to market
http://www.azcu.org/minetomarket/
Technology of copper mining
http://64.90.169.191/innovations/1998/11/astm.html
Copper solvent extraction
http://www.mining-technology.com/contractors/chemicals/avecia/
How do they make copper?
http://64.90.169.191/innovations/how/howdo3.htm

Session 2: How Much is the Land Worth?
Redox Reactions and Ore Composition Analysis

Exploration 2A: What Minerals Would You Expect To Find?
Exploration 2B: How Much Total and Oxidized Cu is Present in the Ore?
Exploration 2C: Is there any Pb, Ag, Fe or Zn in the Ore?
Exploration 2D: What is the Price of Copper?
Exploration 2E: What is the Cost of Extraction?
Business news and data (http://marketdata.copper.org/) (http://www.coppernews.com/)

Session 3: How Is Ore Processed?
Thermodynamics and Spontaneity

Exploration 3A: How is Copper Extracted from Sulfidic Ores?
Exploration 3B: How is Copper Extracted from Oxidic Ores?
Exploration 3C: Are there any Alternatives?
Exploration 3D: Which Process is Most Compatible with the Ore?
Exploration 3E: How Much Acid is Consumed by the Ore?

Session 4: How Is the Extracted Copper Purified?
Solvent Extraction and Electrowinning

Exploration 4A: How is Aqueous Copper Separated From the Other Metals in Solution?
Exploration 4B: How is Aqueous Copper Purified and Concentrated?
Exploration 4C: How is Metallic Copper Obtained?
Exploration 4D: How is nylon made?
Exploration 4E: How are polyesters formed?

Session 5: What is the Final Recommendation?
Culminating Event

Appendices

Appendix A: Analytical Methods for the Laboratory
Appendix B: Thermodynamic Data
Appendix C: Solubility Product Data
Appendix D: Costs of Extraction
Appendix E: WMC Report Excerpts
Appendix F: Solvent Extraction: A Viable Method for Selectively Extracting Metals from Solutions