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Copper 2003-Cobre 2003 fifth in a series of international conferences devoted to the economics, the mineral processing, the extractive metallurgy, the environment and the applications of copper. The 1987 and 1995 conferences were hosted by Chile, whereas the 1991 and 1999 conferences were held, respectively, in Ottawa, Canada and Phoenix, USA. The 40 papers presented in this book reflect the current state of electrorefining and electrowinning in the world's copper industry. Papers by experts from all of the major copper producing countries outline current industrial operations, emerging technologies as well as fundamental research activities being pursued in support of the industry. Several studies on the modelling and control of electrometallurgical processes are reported. The topics include: - Refinery operations and improvements - Anodes, anode slimes and anode slimes processing - Refinery process control - Electrowinning operations - Electrorefining fundamentals - Electrowinning fundamentals.