Abstract: The invention relates to a process for recovering non-ferrous metal values such as nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc, manganese and magnesium from material containing said metals, by converting the non-ferrous metal values into sulphates by using melt and melt coating sulphation and recovering them as metal compounds by a process entity based on a melt and melt coating sulphation.

Abstract: A process for recovering non-ferrous metal values from their ores, minerals, concentrates, oxidic roasting products, or slags by sulphating said starting material using a mixture comprising iron (III) sulphate and alkali metal- or ammonium sulphate as a reagent.

Abstract: A process for the treatment of a raw material which contains oxides and ferrites of zinc, copper and cadmium is disclosed, in which the raw material is neutral leached with a sulfuric-acid-bearing solution in order to leach the oxide without substantial dissolving of ferrite, the ferrite-bearing residue is separated, and a sulfuric-acid-bearing or ferrisulfate-bearing solution is mixed with the residue in order to leach the ferrite and to precipitate the iron as jarosite in the presence of alkali ions or ammonium ions under atmospheric conditions at 80.degree.-105.degree. C., the sulfuric-acid-bearing or ferrisulfate-bearing solution being added to the ferrite-bearing residue in such an amount that approximately 50-60% of the ferrite dissolves and its iron precipitates as jarosite, the solid phase is dried and heated to so high a temperature that the zinc of the solid phase is converted to zinc sulfate and its iron to hematite according to the following reaction:(8) 3ZnFe.sub.2 O.sub.4(s) +2A[Fe.sub.3 (SO.