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Minerals glossary

Rotary kiln-electric furnace

Also called RKEF, nickel pig iron, NPI, ferronickel

A smelting route that dries and reduces nickel laterite in a kiln, then melts it in an electric furnace to make ferronickel or nickel pig iron.

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