Abstract: A method of producing crude iron from sulphidic iron-containing material, where an iron sulphide containing material is charged to a furnace space and there, together with a silica containing material and oxygen, is smelted to an iron-silicate smelt during combustion of sulphidebound sulphur present, so that said smelt contains approximately 70-90% by weight iron calculated as iron (II) oxide. To the smelt is then added a reducing agent in a manner such that the iron content calculated as iron (II) oxide falls to approximately 60% by weight or lower in the presence of lime and/or other fluxing agents and that formed crude iron is separated. The iron content of the iron silicate smelt is then increased by adding further iron sulphide containing material and oxygen for smelting and reducing agent for another reduction.

Abstract: Pyrometallurgical process for recovering lead, zinc and precious metals from leaching residues and precipitates occuring during the hydrometallurgical production of zinc, comprising a weak oxydizing and reducing treatment of the starting material.