A jigging separator which includes a housing in which is formed a compartment, a bed for the compartment, a wall on a side of the compartment with a discharge opening at least part of which is higher than the bed and through which material in the compartment can flow substantially horizontally, and a gate in the dis...

A method of preparing a pre-reduced ilmenite ore for smelting wherein metal oxides contained in the ore are selectively reduced in solid-state reactions over titanium oxide the method including the step of pre-reducing carbon-based pellets of the ore.

A method of processing a ferroalloy waste slag in a reactor which includes the steps of treating the slag with a metallic reductant and a conditioning flux to release a metal oxide and reduce it to metallic form to use as a commercially acceptable silicon-containing alloy and to form a waste slag which is detoxified...

A method of producing syngas wherein a carbonaceous feedstock is exposed to a plasma arc generated by a DC supply in a dry-steam environment.

A method of processing an iron-rich rare earth bearing ore which includes the steps of smelting the ore to concentrate rare earth oxide minerals in the ore into a slag phase and extracting the rare earth oxide minerals from the slag.

A process for the production of high carbon ferromanganese which includes; the step of smelting carbon-based manganese ore micro-pellets in a smelting furnace in a shallow burden configuration.