Mineral Resource of the Month: Iron and Steel Slag | EARTH ...
Iron and steel slag, also known as ferrous slag, is produced by adding limestone (or dolomite), lime and silica sand to blast furnaces and steel furnaces to strip impurities from iron ore, scrap and other ferrous feed materials and to lower the heat requirements of the iron and steelmaking processes. Ferrous slag forms as a dominantly calcium silicate melt that floats on top of the molten ...