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El Paso Refinery of Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation

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The history of this refinery has been one of expansion. It now has the capacity to produce 240,000 tons of cathodes annually. A general flowsheet and descriptions of the plant layout, operations involved, and equipment used at one of the world’s largest and most modern electrolytic copper refineries are presented.

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  1. Frank R. Corwin and C. S. Harloff: El Paso Refinery of the Nichols Copper Company. Mining and Metallurgy (1930) 11, pp. 459–465.

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  2. Expanded Copper Refinery. Mining World (Sept. 1945) 7, No. 10, pp. 15–20.

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  1. Phelps Dodge Refining Corp., El Paso, Texas, USA

    B. B. Kunkle (Plant Metallurgist)

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Discussion of this paper, TP 3010D, may be sent (2 copies) to AIME by May 1, 1951. Manuscript, Oct. 2, 1950. St. Louis Meeting, February 1951.

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Kunkle, B.B. El Paso Refinery of Phelps Dodge Refining Corporation. JOM 3, 229–234 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397298

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