The dissolution and passivation mechanism of chalcopyrite …
Accounting for more than 70% of global copper reserves, chalcopyrite (CuFeS 2) is the most abundant copper-bearing resource, and is also widely distributed in solid wastes and secondary resources (Panda et al., 2012).The crystal structure of chalcopyrite is provided in Fig. 1 (de Oliveira and Duarte, 2010).In 1917, chalcopyrite …