Hidrometalurgia do cobre: lixiviação de cobre oxidado: estado-da-arte

Abstract

This work will be approached the report of the copper and the general information on the metal and their several minerals. Information about copper world reserves, national and regional copper reserves, the demand of the metal, main deposits of the country and of the state and other methods of extraction of the metal quite practiced, besides the hydrometallurgy. Will be approaches also the several processes of leaching of copper ores, giving emphasis to the copper oxides, to the heap leach and to the scientific procedures used for the definition of the main parameters of the heap leach of copper oxides. This way, the objective of this work is to accomplish a study on the hydrometallurgical potential of this area, to propose means of analysis of parameters related to the heap leach and to create bibliography concerning the subject for posterity.