Extractive metallurgy is the act of expelling important metals from a mineral and refining the separated crude metals into a cleaner structure. So as to change over a metal oxide or sulfide to a cleaner metal, the mineral must be decreased genuinely, artificially, or electrostatically. Extractive metallurgists are keen on three essential streams: feed, concentrate (significant metal oxide/sulfide), and tailings(waste). In the wake of mining, enormous bits of the metal feed are gotten through smashing or granulating so as to acquire particles little enough where every molecule is either for the most part important or for the most part squander. Concentrating the particles of significant worth in a structure supporting partition empowers the ideal metal to be expelled from squander items. Mining may not be essential if the metal body and physical condition are helpful for filtering. Filtering breaks up minerals in a metal body and results in an improved arrangement. The arrangement is gathered and handled to extricate important metals. Metal bodies frequently contain more than one important metal. Tailings of a past procedure might be utilized as a feed in another procedure to extricate an optional item from the first metal. Furthermore, a concentrate may contain more than one significant metal. That concentrate would then be handled to isolate the significant metals into singular constituents.