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black copper

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black copper [¦blak ′käp·ər]
(metallurgy)
The more or less impure metallic copper (70-99% copper) produced in blast furnaces when running on oxide ores or roasted sulfide material.


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In this case, the globe thermometer is a black copper ball, 6 centimeters in diameter, into which is inserted a temperature-standard thermometer with a 30[degrees]-to-120[degrees] F range.
Oxide mineralization occurs as black copper minerals and malachite within residual dolomite overlying the Grand Conglomerate in a stratigraphic position equivalent to the Lonshi ore body.
Seraphim, Treminco's consulting geologist for the El Magistral Project, reports that within the trenches sampled, the copper appears mainly as a black copper oxide (tenorite).
 
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