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Editor’s Note: This paper is an abridged version of “New and Emerging Technologies is Sulfide Smelting,” by P.J. Mackey and P. Tarassoff in Advances in Sulphide Smelting, edited by H.Y. Sohn, D.B. George, and A.D. Zunkel. The Metallurgical Society of AIME, Warrendale, Pennsylvania. Copyright 1983.

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Mackey, P.J., Tarassoff, P. Advances in Pyrometallurgy — 1983. JOM 36, 21–27 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03338557

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