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The addition of silica during the extraction of copper from its sulphide ore:
- Aconverts iron oxide into iron silicate
- Bconverts copper sulphide into copper silicate
- Creduces copper sulphide into metallic copper
- Dreduces the melting point of the reaction mixture
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