cement copper

The cement copper, which is produced from the leachate by the addition of scrap-iron, can then be further refined by smelting.

Cement copper is normally less pure than SX-EW copper.

Copper mattes; cement copper (precipitated copper).

This simple process yields four to six thousand hundredweight of precipitate - or cement copper, which is likewise sent to the smelting works where it is smelted and refined.

Anaconda Smelter - Anaconda - Montana, USA - Project Manager for study of new smelting process for cement copper (1974).