1/9/2018 · Atlantic Copper, located in Huelva (Spain), is one of thePerfectst producers in Europe, which produce more than 285.000 tons per year of cathodic copper as main product. The pyrometallurgical process involved also generates by-products such as iron silicates or slag (∼670.000 tons/year) between others, which is widely marketed in civil engineering [ Raposeiras et al., 2016 , Prasad and Ramana