摘要 |
<p>TITLE: A METHOD FOR PHYSICALLY PROCESSING METALS, METAL ORES, COMPOUNDS AND CONCENTRATES THEREOF.: A continuous melting, smelting or processing method including the steps of: Providing a substantially continuous moving molten metal bath, preferably in a coherent mass such as a stream, and introducing into the bath a substantially continuous charge of metal, metal ores, compounds or concentrates thereof, the metal of either of which is substantially the same as that of the moving molten metal bath, and utilizing physical barriers to urge the metal, metal ores, compounds or concentrates thereof into and beneath the surface of the bath, and to so hold the charge therebeneath such surface so as to accelerate their chemical reaction or dissolution, thereby increasing the volume of molten metal produced per unit of time.</p> |