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Davenport, in Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, 2001. Physical Beneficiation. Beneficiation of copper ores is done almost exclusively by selective froth flotation. Flotation entails first attaching fine copper mineral particles to bubbles rising through an orewater pulp and, second, collecting the copper minerals at the top of the pulp as a briefly stable mineral