Sulfide minerals concentrates are an important source of raw materials for non-ferrous metals extraction processes. For copper, these are usually processed through a flowchart containing the operations of roasting, matte smelting, conversion and refining. However, some concentrates characteristics may limit its acceptance in processing plants such as low copper content and the presence of deleterious elements, such as fluorine and its corrosive effects as result of its transformation into hydrofluoric acid; even if the metal content is this material is high. Within this context, this study aims to evaluate the chemical processing of sulfide concentrates with these characteristics in order to understand their roasting behavior, in order to identify conditions that minimize the fluorine harmful effects for concentrate with high copper content, and determine an operating window that allows the selective obtainment of CuSO4, for low grade concentrates. To meet these objectives, it was carried out a theoretical study including a brief review of the literature and a thermodynamics assessment of the most important chemical reactions in each reaction system. The experimental study was conducted evaluating the effect of specific variables for each reaction system. In the case of concentrates of high grade containing fluorine, the experiments contemplate the presence or absence of water in the reaction atmosphere while the tests involving the concentrate with low copper content were carried out by varying the temperature and the chemical composition of the atmosphere, recirculating part of the gaseous products, like SO2. The materials were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. The theoretical predictions of both reaction systems could be confirmed in the characterization of the reaction products obtained after the chemical processing of sulfide concentrates of high and low copper content. In what touches the former, it was observed that fluorine tends to remain stable as fluorite in the absence of moisture within the reaction system. On the other hand, regarding the latter material, it was found that the part of recycled gaseous products of the process are responsible for a performance improvement of the roasting reaction focused on the selective formation of copper sulfate and iron oxide.