SMELTING METHOD USING A FLUXING AGENT

摘要

A method of smelting a gold rich source material in a crucible comprising: i) adding a fluxing agent to the crucible; ii) heating the fluxing agent in the crucible to provide an initial molten fluid pool of fluxing agent in the crucible; iii) adding gold rich source material to the molten pool of fluxing agent; and iv) pouring out of the molten contents of the crucible with separation of slag to form a precious metal ingot.