The invention provides a wet
copper extraction process used in high mud-content
copper oxide ores of cold areas. The process comprises the following steps: crude ores are crushed and sieved, coarse fraction ores are sent to a storage
yard for piling, fine fraction ores are sent to an ore washing
system for washing and grading; placer ores are sent to the storage
yard for the piling after washing the ores, and mud ores are sent to an agitation tank for agitation leaching; leaching solution which is obtained from
heap leaching and agitation leaching processes is sent for extraction and stripping; stripping concentration solution is sent to an electrodeposition process, and a qualified
cathode copper product is obtained; leached
slag from the agitation leaching is neutralized and sent to a
tailings reservoir for piling. The process has good permeability, fast
copper leaching rate, and greatly improved
copper leaching rate and leached copper yield per day by the grading and the
heap leaching of the coarse fraction ores; and the
copper leaching rate is improved and the ore
utilization rate is greatly improved by the agitation leaching of minus 0.074mm size fraction ores. The method is applicable to the development and the application in the wet copper extraction process used in the high mud-content
copper oxide ores of the cold areas, solves the difficult technical problems of poor bing permeability and slow copper
leaching rate, widens the use range of
copper ore resources and improves the comprehensive
utilization rate of the copper.