Reclamation of copper-base scrap and residues

Abstract

THE importance of secondary metals and alloys in copper and copper alloy industries is recognised when one considers that even in U. S. A., a country fairly rich in copper ores, about half the consumption of copper is accounted for by secondary metals . When such is the case, there is every reason to believe that India can benefit substantially by improving its secondary copper and copper alloy industries as not only is our country relatively poor in copper ore deposits, but also her demand for copper, anticipated as 238 thousand tonnes in 1970-71 would be more than 15 times its estimated licensed capacity- 16.5 thousand tonnes of fire refined blister copper at the end of the Fourth Plan.'