“…Hence, to promote iron grain segregation, special additives are used, mainly alkali and alkaline earth metal salts. If Na 2 CO 3 [41][42][43], Na 2 SO 4 [39,[44][45][46], Na 2 B 4 O 7 [47], K 2 CO 3 [48], KCl [49], CaF 2 [50] were used for solid-phase carbothermic reduction of red mud, high iron recovery and high grade of the concentrates could have been achieved. As reported in our previous work [48], the roasting of red mud with addition of 17.1% Na 2 CO 3 or 22.05% K 2 CO 3 at 1300 • C for 180 min followed by magnetic separation resulted in iron recovery of 77.27% and 85.54%, respectively, and iron concentrate with grade of about 72% in both cases.…”