Inventors:
Robert O. French - Salt Lake City UT
Assignee:
Kennecott Copper Corporation - New York NY
International Classification:
C22B 1500
Abstract:
Bismuth, antimony, and arsenic impurities are removed from molten copper by contacting such molten copper with sulfur hexafluoride gas, which reacts directly with the specified impurities to form gaseous fluorides.