
Estimated Water Requirements for the Conventional Flotation of Copper Ores
2012; Cameron Wolf, Senior Process Engineer, Tetra Tech MMI, written commun., March 21, 2012]. In the southwestern United States, approximately to 3 t of water are required to process 1 t of copper porphyry ore that contains roughly percent copper (Gault Group, Inc., 2008; Vargas, 2008; Mining Engineering, 2010; Singh, 2010).