“…Based on the knowledge of soft magnetic properties of spinel ferrites synthesied by various methods (Viart et al, 2000;Sugimoto, 1999;Lakshmi, Kumar, and Thyagarajan, 2016;Zhang et al, 2016), the magnetic ferrite phases (MFe 2 O 4 , where M is Mn, Ni, Cr, Mo, etc.) in crystallized slags can be exploited in the magnetic separation from the bulk nonmagnetic components (Semykina and Seetharaman, 2011;Semykina, 2013;Shatokha et al, 2013;Sharma, Sharma, and Shah, 2014;Menad, Kanari, and Save, 2014;Ma and Houser, 2014;Li et al, 2015;Lakshmi, Kumar, and Thyagarajan, 2016;Zhang et al, 2016;Jiang et al, 2018). In other words, the transformation of nonmagnetic compounds of transition metals in slags to ferrites with high magnetic susceptibilities by controlled solidification and crystallization of molten slags is a promising method to increase the recovery of values from steelmaking slags.…”