Processes

This website is intended to cover the fields of mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and forming processes for various materials. In the future, more processes will be added covering different areas in the process engineering of materials (for example; semiconductor fabrication, thixotropic moulding, and polymer blending may be incuded). If you use this site and would like to see a particular process covered, or if you would like to add your company's process, please contact our development team.

[Note from Web Developer: Several processes are currently offline pending company approval.]

ONLINE VIRTUAL TOURS
Steel Production	The production of steel from iron ore and recycled metal from Dofasco
Aluminum Production	From Alcan; the humble beginnings of beer (and other beverage) cans.
Mitsubishi Process	Continuous production of copper from sulphide ores, from MMC.
Acid Leach Processes	Dynatec's hydrometallurgical recovery of nickel, cobalt, and other metals.
Gold Production	The cyanidation process for gold recovery, from Barrick.
Magnola Process	Magnola's magnesium production from serpentine tailings.
Zinc-Lead Production	Cominco's process to produce zinc and lead, as used at their operation in Trail.