A spectrographic procedure for determining copper in concentrated iron ores has been worked out for routine analysis. The powder method is found to be satisfactory with a medium quartz spectrograph and an activated a. c. arc between carbon electrodes as light source. In order to minimize erratic burning of the sample, the electrodes are pre-burned for one minute and then loaded with a mixture of equal weight of the ore sample and carbon powder. The analysis pair of lines chosen are: Cu 2824.369 Fe 2824.67 for copper contents ranging from 0.05 to 0.3%, and Cu 2824369- Fe 2828.813 for those between 0.3 and 1.0%. The results obtained spectrographically have been checked by wet chemical analysis, amongst 110 samples 80% of which the two methods checked within 0.02%.