Conventional flotation methods are adopted to extract lead and zinc concentrates.

With the closure of this facility, mining operations that had begun in the Middle Ages and had continued unbroken since the 16th century, extracting silver, lead and zinc, came to an end.

Extracting zinc along with other metals and minerals for manufacturing takes a toll on the environment.

Radič was born in 1363 or 1372, in the village of Kamenica, to a family of miners, who extracted lead, zinc and silver from the Rudnik mine.

Due to the complex metallurgy, no attempt was made to extract the cobalt, zinc, and manganese.

In those on the outskirts of Cartagena and Mazarron, Rome continued extracting silver, lead, iron, zinc, and other minerals in great quantities, making about 40,000 slaves labor in them.

The same year also saw Boliden acquire the Spanish company, Apirsa S.L., which extracted zinc from the Aznalcóllar open pit mine, 45 km west of Seville.

Flemish metallurgist P.M. de Respour reported that he extracted metallic zinc from zinc oxide in 1668.

Cupellation was also being used in parts of Europe to extract gold, silver, zinc, and tin by the late ninth to tenth century AD.

After studying metallurgy, he took out patents to extract metallic zinc from mine tailings.