FIELD: ferrous metallurgy. SUBSTANCE: method comprises loading charge containing ore materials, fluxes, and carbon fuel, and providing oxygen and air blowing through upper additional lances above level of loaded charge. According to invention, ore materials are loaded in the form of clumps or dust and, as carbon fuel, coke and/or coal are used. As a result, total consumption of carbon fuel is reduced and most of coke is substituted by coal because of introducing fuel into ore-coal nonfired pellets or briquets. Carbon fuel consumption constitutes: when smelting cast iron, 500 kg/t (coke 200 kg/t, coal in briquets 300 kg/t) instead of 600 kg coke/t in blast furnace; when smelting manganese, chromium, and silicon ferroalloys, about 700 kg/t (coke 300 kg/t, coal in briquets 400 kg/t) instead of 2000 kg coke/t in blast furnace. Structure of the assembly is simpler than that of blast furnace: no shaft, no stove, and no complicated loading apparatus. Smelting of cast iron and ferroalloys are intensified. EFFECT: enhanced process efficiency. 8 cl, 4 tbl
