Gold ₹15,652.75/g ▲ +0.00% Silver ₹236.98/g ▲ +0.00% Platinum ₹5,606.41/g ▼ -0.03% Palladium ₹4,364.96/g ▼ -0.03% Rhodium ₹24,752.50/g ▼ -0.59% Copper ₹1,265.95/kg ▼ -0.05% Aluminium ₹281.57/kg ▼ -0.03% Cobalt ₹4,896.82/kg ▼ -0.03% Gallium ₹23,085.74/kg ▼ -0.03% Indium ₹69,192.57/kg ▼ -0.03% Iron Ore ₹8.34/kg ▼ -0.03% Lead ₹165.96/kg ▼ -0.03% Lithium ₹1,978.78/kg ▼ -0.03% Molybdenum ₹7,986.25/kg ▼ -0.03% Nickel ₹1,459.27/kg ▲ +0.12% Neodymium ₹12,351.18/kg ▼ -0.03% Tin ₹4,795.48/kg ▼ -0.03% Tellurium ₹10,314.22/kg ▼ -0.03% Uranium ₹17,126.53/kg ▼ -0.03% Zinc ₹336.35/kg ▼ -0.03% Crude Oil (Brent) ₹8,419.22/bbl ▼ -0.03% Crude Oil (WTI) ₹7,960.68/bbl ▼ -0.04% Gasoline ₹331.81/gal ▼ -0.03% Natural Gas ₹275.00/MMBtu ▼ -0.03%

Industry

Copper Refining

The industrial process of purifying mined copper into high-grade metal, typically via electrorefining; also the source of most of the world's byproduct tellurium, gold and silver, recovered from anode slime.

Covered in 1 MetalsCost.com News Intelligence article, most recently on August 25, 2026.

Coverage

Rio Tinto's Utah Copper Mine Builds a 30-Megawatt Solar Plant From Its Own Waste Tellurium

Kennecott's recovery circuit demonstrates a working template other copper refiners processing anode slime could adopt to add a new byproduct revenue stream.

Bullish · 5 days ago