The use of heat treatment of ore that includes smelting and roasting is termed as : A)Electrometallurgy B)Hydrometallurgy C)Pyrometallurgy D)Cryometallurgy
Option C) Pyrometallurgy consists of the thermal treatment of minerals and metallurgical ores and concentrates to bring about physical and chemical transformations in the materials to enable recovery of valuable metals. During pyrometallic processing, an ore, after being beneficiated (concentrated by crushing, grinding, floating and drying), is sintered or roasted (calcined) with other materials such as baghouse dust and flux. The concentrate is then smelted, or melted, in a blast furnace in order to fuse the desired metals into impure molten bullion.
