Abstract: A method of passivating iron-containing cuttings and turnings to prevent overheating thereof during storage and transportation, wherein the cuttings and turnings are fed through a rotating tumbler drum while being mixed with an aqueous slurry of calcium oxide or hydroxide, the tumbling being continued until the cuttings or turnings are thoroughly coated with the slurry. In a preferred embodiment, the cuttings and turnings are passed through a tumbling drum continuously, with the slurry being sprayed onto them as they enter the drum.

Abstract: Process for recovering high-grade blast furnace iron or other metal from pieces of blast furnace iron or such other metal and blast furnace slag having large amounts of such blast furnace slag, by tumbling a substantial number of such pieces to achieve a constant redistribution thereof while impacting at least a substantial portion of such pieces with a high velocity, relatively small diameter shot or grit which has a hardness which is greater than the hardness of the slag, thereby abrading the impurity, while leaving the body of non-impurity substantially intact.