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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary J O'Connell, Sudbury, CA;
David G Tisdale, Sudbury, CA;
Assignee:
Falconbridge Limited, Toronto, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75626 ;
Abstract
A process for pretreating chromium-bearing metal scrap comprises charging the chromium-bearing metal scrap with fayalite slag into a pyrometallurgical furnace, heating and melting the charge, and maintaining the charge molten at a temperature of at least 1550.degree. C. for a predetermined time period to allow an iron oxide/chromium exchange reaction to take place oxidizing and removing chromium to the slag phase while reducing iron to the metal phase to form an alloy product containing Fe along with the Ni and/or Co, and removing the alloy product for further processing for recovery of metal values.