“…The advantages of calcium ferrite slags over the more conventional iron silicate slags include A lower dissolved copper content at a given activity of copper in slag, [11,12] A higher capacity to dissolve ferric iron and, hence, magnetite, and [13] A higher capacity for some acidic minor elements such as arsenic and antimony. [14,15] Most of the thermodynamic investigations into calcium ferrite slags have concentrated on liquidus boundaries at copper-making temperatures, [10,[16][17][18][19][20] iron redox equilibria, [16][17][18][21][22][23][24] and the solubility of copper in slag. [11,15,19,25,26] Nikolic et al [27] and Hidayat et al [28] investigated the thermodynamics of complex slag systems relevant to modern copper smelting and converting processes as part of a thermodynamic modeling study.…”