The Urals region (Russia) experiences an acute deficit of iron ore for blast furnaces of metallurgical plants.  Iron ore has to be brought in from remote regions (Karelia, central Russia, East Siberia, etc.).  At the same time, Chelyabinsk province (Urals, Russia) has large deposits of titano-magnetite ore with high contents of TiO2 and Vn.

Complex processing of such ores by blast furnaces is practically impossible because of formation of high-melting-point slag with a high TiO2 content.

The task  of efficient and  complex  processing of titano-magnetite ores is solved by using  highly efficient cooling system  of the  smelting  unit MAGMA that  allows to use high temperatures in the working space of the smelting  chamber (Figure below).

The  result   of   primary   separation  of   titano-magnetite  ores   is vanadium cast iron and titaniam slag, from which the following products can be produced at later stages of complex  processing: vanadium slag (raw material for the production of vanadium alloys), steel,  ferro-titanium, high titaniam slag (raw  material  for  a TiO2-based coloring  pigment, titanium sponge).

Processing of titano-magnetite ore by the proposed technology is completely waste-free.

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