ISASMELT (original) (raw)

The ISASMELT process is an energy-efficient smelting process that was jointly developed from the 1970s to the 1990s by Mount Isa Mines (a subsidiary of MIM Holdings and now part of Glencore) and the Government of Australia’s CSIRO. It has relatively low capital and operating costs for a smelting process. Smelters based on the copper ISASMELT process are among the lowest-cost copper smelters in the world.