CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR REFINING SULFIDE ORES

摘要

A continuous process for refining metal sulfide ores which is carried out by arranging a smelting furnace and a blister furnace, each maintaining discreteness in the reaction zones, wherein a separator is provided subsequent to the smelting furnace so as to limit the function of the smelting furnace to the melting of the raw material and absorption of the copper content in a slag which slag is formed from a subsequent oxidizing furnace into a matte layer, thus achieving the smelting process at a higher furnace rate. The reaction products in the smelting furnace are all tapped out simultaneously without being separated from each other, and transferred to this separator where they are separated and tapped out individually.