Shuikoushan Copper Smelting Process is a novel bath-smelting technology which is developed by Shuikoushan Bureau of Mines in China after Baiyin Process. In the matter of fact, it was developed from Shuikoushan Lead Smelting Process. Initially, it was intended to use Shuikoushan Furnace to treat sulfide concentrate containing gold and arsenic. When the sulfide concentrate was smelted, copper matte was made and gold was concentrated in copper matte. Therefore "matte making―gold concentrating" technology was formed after much research work had been done. For the further development of successful experiments, semi-industrial experiments were carried out by using the furnace with a 50 t/d capacity and lasting 217 d in 1991-1992, and satisfactory technical-and-economic indexes were obtained. It was patented in 1994 and was named as Shuikoushan Copper Smelting Process. In 2000, it was applied to Daiyang Copper Smelter (20 kt/a copper), Jiangxi Province first time. In 2001, it was exported to smelter of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
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