Extractive metallurgy

(noun)

The practice of removing valuable metals from an ore and refining the extracted raw metals into a purer form.

Related Terms

  • Leaching
  • ore

Examples of Extractive metallurgy in the following topics:

  • Extractive Metallurgy

    • Extractive metallurgy refers to the different processes used to extract valuable metals from mined ores.
    • Extractive metallurgy is the practice of removing valuable metals from an ore and refining the extracted raw metals into a purer form.
    • Extractive metallurgists are interested in three primary streams: feed, concentrate (valuable metal oxide/sulfide), and tailings (waste).
  • Metallurgy

    • Extractive metallurgy is the study of the processes used in the separation and concentration of raw materials.
    • Extractive metallurgy is the practice of removing valuable metals from an ore and refining the extracted raw metals into a purer form.
    • The practice of extractive metallurgy almost always involves contributions from other scientific fields, such as analytical chemistry and mineralogy.
    • Sometimes extractive metallurgy produces a finished product, but more often it produces a form that requires further physical processing.
    • The field of extractive metallurgy encompasses many specialty sub-disciplines, each concerned with various physical and chemical processes that are steps in an overall process to produce a particular material.
  • Introduction to Provisioning

    • Wrights' powered flight depended on the existence of internal combustion engines, bicycles, fabric, gliders, metallurgy, and a host of other items.
  • Basic Economics of Natural Resources

    • Extractive industries are a basis for the primary sector of the economy.
  • Classifying Business Products

  • Mycenaean Metallurgy

    • List the items found in Mycenaean burial sites that demonstrate Mycenaean skill in metallurgy.
  • How successful are eco-industrial parks?

    • (Jyrki, Heino, and Tuomo, Koskenkari, ‘Industrial Ecology in the Metallurgy Industry: The Harjavalta Industrial Ecosystem') Eco-industrial parks, it seems, have staying power.
  • Archaeology

    • Archaeology also sheds light on many of humanity's technological advances, such as the ability to use fire, the development of stone tools, the discovery of metallurgy, the beginnings of religion and the creation of agriculture.
  • Ceramics and Bronze in the Yayoi Period

    • Techniques in metallurgy based on the use of bronze and iron were also introduced to Japan in this period.
  • The Inca People

    • Fine silver and gold were made into intricate decorative pieces for the emperors and elites based on these Chimú metallurgy traditions and often included animal motifs with butterflies, jaguars, and llamas etched into the metal.
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