Resource and environmental factors have become major forces in mining and metallurgy
sectors driving research for sustainability purposes. The concept of zero-waste processing …

Slags produced from copper smelting are siliceous and often contain valuable metals such
as copper and iron as well as deleterious elements such as arsenic and lead. A copper slag …

Phase diagrams of quasicrystal-forming alloy systems, such as Al-Cu-Fe, are essential to the
continued development and fundamental understanding of quasicrystalline alloys …

Some Cu-based alloy systems with a large positive enthalpy of mixing display a eutectic or
peritectic phase diagram under equilibrium conditions, but show a metastable liquid …

The high cooling rates in laser directed energy deposition (DED-LB) of alloys lead to
substantial amounts of solute trap** as solute atoms cannot diffuse away from the …

The cohesive energy of transition metals and its contributions related to the s-and d-
electrons are calculated. The correlation of interatomic bonding strength, molar volume, and …

As an addition to the iron-carbon alloys to improve their strength and corrosion resistance,
copper is of great importance for iron and steel industry and the Fe–Cu–C system has been …

Copper production from sulphide minerals generates massive amounts of slag as final
waste of the pyrometallurgical processes. Dum** the slag nearby the smelter plant has …

Ian Carmichael spent 45 years thinking about and working on the activities of components in
silicate melts and their use to estimate physicochemical conditions at eruption and in the …

Silicate slags produced from smelting copper concentrates contains valuables such as Cu
and Fe as well as heavy metals such as Pb and As which are considered hazardous. In this …