Notes On Extraction Of Copper And Zinc From Their Oxides
Extraction of zinc: Zinc occurs widely in nature in the form of sulphide, oxide and carbonate ores. Zinc blende is its sulphide ore, zincite its oxide ore and calamine is its carbonate ore. Sulphideposition Zinc blende: ZnS: Oxideposition Zincite: ZnO: Carbonateposition Calamine: ZnCO 3: The reduction of zinc oxide to zinc occurs at a higher



































