Metal Extraction Methods

Questions - You can discuss the answers to these questions on the EtherPads before typing the answers underneath your flow chart.

1.  Match up the extraction method to the metal name:

a)  Electrolysis   b)  Smelting   c)  Bioleaching   d)  Reduction with CO in a Blast Furnace  e)  Phytomining

A.  Copper      B.  Iron      C.  Titanium      D.  Aluminium

2.  How is the method of extraction linked to how reactive the metal is?

3.  Use the flow charts to explain which metals are more expensive and why this is the case.

4.  Try this quiz.