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MET 610

Pyrometallurgy

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Standard

Overview

Description

Quantitative and descriptive treatment of the unit processes used and fundamentals of smelting, melting, refining of metals by high temperature methods.

Units

Lecture3

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Offered: Every Spring

Terms

spring

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Learning Outcomes

  • identify mineral or mine samples as candidates for pyrometallurgical processing.
  • develop a pyrometallurgical process design and flowsheet for an ore given appropriate analytical data.
  • describe pyrometallurgical processing, separation, metal extraction and recovery for candidate ore samples.
  • identify, explain, and moderate environmental hazards of pyrometallurgical processing.