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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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King Assistant Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, is proposing a direct sulfide electrolysis process to simplify copper extraction and eliminate noxious byproducts. Experience in the aluminum industry shows that it is actually fairly cheap to make the electrolysis device, Allanore said. Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. Hoar and R.G.

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