Note: This is the 2024–2025 eCalendar. Current program and course information is now found in the McGill Course Catalogue at https://coursecatalogue.mcgill.ca/.
Overview
Mining & Materials Engineering : Principle non-ferrous base-metal pyrometallurgical extraction processes, relevant thermodynamics, heat and mass balances, transport phenomena (copper, nickel, lead, zinc, aluminum, magnesium). Ores, gangue, fuels, slag, fluxes, recovery, refining, minor elements, byproducts and the environment. Roasting, drying, smelting, converting, reverberatory furnaces, flash furnaces, continuous and batch operations, injection practices and oxygen enrichment. Simulation, modelling, control and optimization.
Terms: Summer 2025
Instructors: Ouzilleau, Philippe (Summer)
