LADLE REFINING AND SLAG CONDITIONING
definition applies to smelting operations and primary steelmaking operations (blast furnace or ferrochrome smelting). In the blast furnace slag originates from the gangue in the ore, ash in the coal, and the fluxes (lime, doloma, Al2O3) that were added to melt the gangue and coal ash so that the slag can be tapped from the blast furnace.