How to Separate Copper and Nickel

Experts who deal with copper and nickel will know that copper and nickel are two closely related metals. Copper often can be found in the nickel-bearing ore, while nickel is always present in the copper-bearing ore. Then how to separate them? There is an effective and economic way to separate copper and nickel.

 copper ore

nickel ore

It mainly includes three steps. At the beginning, find some equipment to crush and grind the ore, and separate out the worthless material by the method of flotation.
Next, you need to smelt the concentrate in a reverberating furnace or some other equipment.
In the end, you can recover the metals by means of crushing, grinding,flotation and magnetic separation.
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