Laterite Ore an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Michael S. Moats, William G. Davenport, in Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Industrial Processes, 2014. Laterite Ore Upgrading. Laterite ores are upgraded before smelting or leaching. The upgrading entails gently crushing and/or grinding the ore and then separating the resulting small, soft, lowdensity Nirich laterized mineral particles from large, hard, dense, Nilean, unlaterized