Smelting - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Ramesh Singh, in Applied Welding Engineering (Second Edition), 2016. Smelting. Smelting is an energy-intensive process used to refine an ore into usable metal. Most ore deposits contain metals in the reacted or combined form. Magnetite (Fe 3 O 4), hematite (Fe 2 O 3), goethite (αFeO[OH]), limonite (the generic formula for limonite is FeO[OH].nH 2 O), and siderite (FeCO