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Bakal siderites represent an important source of iron ore that can be used in the production of high-quality pig iron and steel. Their value in this regard stems from the stability of their chemical composition, low content of harmful impurities (sulfur, phosphorus), good reducibility, and good strength in the roasted state. These advantages, combined with the favorable composition of the country rock-which has a basicity (based on CaO + MgO/SiO2) of up to 2.6-makes it possible to classify these siderites as iron-fluxes that can be used effectively in a blast furnace. Roasted siderite concentrate (RSC) can be used efficiently in the blast-furnace charge to make different grades of manganese-bearing foundry iron as long as unfluxed pellets are also employed. On the average, the addition of 10 kg of RSC to the charge per ton of pig iron reduces the consumption of dry skip coke by 0.6–1.5 kg/ton pig and increases furnace productivity by 0.9–2.0 tons/day by decreasing the amount of raw flux needed and increasing the iron content of the fluxed part of the charge.
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Translated from Metallurg, No. 8, pp. 51–55, August, 2006.
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Feshchenko, S.A., Pleshkov, V.I., Saveiko, K.N. et al. The use of siderites in blast furnaces operated on unfluxed pellets. Metallurgist 50, 419–425 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-006-0100-z
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