Refractories and use thereof

Refractory product in the form of a dry, mineral batch of refractory mineral materials, for the production of refractory products for fire-side lining of industrial non-ferrous metal smelting furnaces, the dry, mineral batch comprising a basic batch consisting of the following basic batch components, which are mixed to come to 100 wt.-%:

• 15 to 74 wt.-% of at least one coarse-grained olivine raw material, with more than 70 wt.-% forsterite and less than 10 wt.-% of iron(III) oxide and having a grain size distribution by at least 95 wt.-%≥1.0 mm, as the main component,
• 25 to 55 wt.-% magnesia meal (MgO meal) having less than 10 wt.-% of iron(III) oxide and less than 2.5 wt.-% of silicate secondary phases and having grain sizes of d95≤1 mm, and
• 1 to 30 wt.-% of at least one refractory reagent that acts to reduce non-ferrous metal oxide melts and/or non-ferrous metal iron oxide melts during the smelting process (in situ) and to convert them to non-ferrous metal melts, wherein the reagent is fine-grained carbon having a fineness below 1000 μm and wherein, in a mixture with the other components of the batch, the reagent is homogeneously distributed.