A kinetic model for the interfacial reaction of copper extraction with Individual 1-(2'-hydroxy-5'-nonylphenyl)-1-ethanone (E)-oxime and 1-(2'-hydroxy-5'-methylphenyl)-1-decanone (E)-oxime having the same hydrophobicity was used to interpret the effect of hydroxyoxime partition and interfacial activity upon the rate of copper extraction from acidic sulfate solutions. Due to similar hydrophobicity of studied extractants the proposed model, which is very sensitive to the errors of the partition coefficient determination, cannot support any version of extraction mechanism.