SUSTAINABILITY OF COPPER SLAG PROCESSING FROM NEW FLASH COPPER SMELTER IN RTB BOR

The reconstruction of metallurgical copper production in RTB Bor, replacement of roasting-reverb process with flash smelting technology, is justified both from the ecological aspect as well as from economic aspect. By modernization of the Bor smelter, emissions of sulphur dioxide, dust, arsenic, lead and other pollutants in waste smelter gas streams are drastically reduced and brought under the law set emission limit values (ELV). Increasing the efficiency of metal in the new Bor smelter by 93 to 98 percent will contribute to the economic profit of the company, and one of the essential phase that RTB Bor will lead to higher metallurgical efficiency, and thus to greater profits, represents the processing of copper slag by flotation.