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A fired spinel complex oxide is produced by firing a mixture containing a slag by-produced in chromium refining, a reducer, and a silica-containing material, and is essentially composed of: 29 to 40 percent by weight of Fe 2 O 3 ; 15 to 20 percent by weight of Al 2 O 3 ; 9 to 14 percent by weight of MgO; 0 to 4 percent by weight of Na 2 O; 9 to 17 percent by weight of Cr 2 O 3 ; 14 to 20 percent by weight of SiO 2 ; and 2 percent by weight or less of CaO. The fired spinel complex oxide shows a Cu—Kα X-ray diffraction pattern in which the ratio (b/a) of the diffraction peak intensity of the silica-containing material (b) in the vicinity of 2θ=26.7° to the {113} plane diffraction peak intensity (a) in the vicinity of 2θ=36° is 0.1 or less. |