Sustainability Profile
LIX^® for copper solvent extraction

Performance Benefits 

• LIX^® products can be flexibly composed out of up-to 3 components thus allow to be customized to the individual customer’s process requirements  
• Their broad operating parameters make them capable on both low- and high-grade ores as well as being suitable for arsenic-containing ores
• Their fast kinetics offer rapid copper uptake and copper stripping
• Their high selectivity targets copper over other metals (e. g. Fe, Co, Ni, As, Mn) and also leads to very high iron rejection
• Their low viscosity and density allows them to operate well at high reagent concentrations and low temperatures
• They provide clean phase separation, low crud formation, have an excellent net copper transfer, support low entrainment and low transfer of contaminants
• Together with an excellent chemical stability the application LIX^® products leads to extraction operation running at maximum efficiency and low operating cost
• Comparing LIX^® blends to modified aldoximes, the above-mentioned benefits lead to lower dose consumption rates (up-to -15%) and/or higher recovery (up-to 4%) and better selectivity (up-to 2%)