NML's Activities on Non-ferrous Metals Extraction

Abstract

India is not well endowed with high grade deposits of ores and minerals of nonferrous metals except bauxite ore of aluminium and beach sand containing titanium, zirconium, and rare earth metals. Hence, the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, which was first laboratory in the country established to cater the need for developing metal extraction processes, had to concentrate on the beneficia-tion of available lean grade ores of non-ferrous metals and the extraction of valuable metals from the concentra-tes, industrial wastes and secondary resources. This paper briefly mentions the technologies developed, infrastruc-ture and facilities established and the current activities in the field of non-ferrous metal extraction in the labora-tory.