the processes in magnesium smelting via the Pidgeon process involve dolomite calcination, grinding and pelleting, and vacuum thermal reduction.

Besides the Pidgeon process, electrolysis of magnesium chloride for commercial production of magnesium is also used, especially for magnesite ores, which at one point in time accounted for 75% of the world's magnesium production.

By 2000,

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