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Page 70
... pyritic smelting , the most attractive in theory of all smelting techniques , for it utilized the heat generated by the combustion of the iron and sulphur in the pyritic ore as a fuel in the furnace , thus dispensing with large ...
... pyritic smelting , the most attractive in theory of all smelting techniques , for it utilized the heat generated by the combustion of the iron and sulphur in the pyritic ore as a fuel in the furnace , thus dispensing with large ...
Page 124
... pyritic smelting . Twelve days later he said North Lyell could adopt pyritic smelting one day and common smelting the next day , varying the technique for the different ore . His inspec- tion of the South Lyell mine , the only mine ...
... pyritic smelting . Twelve days later he said North Lyell could adopt pyritic smelting one day and common smelting the next day , varying the technique for the different ore . His inspec- tion of the South Lyell mine , the only mine ...
Page 282
... pyritic smelting and the successful smelting of a wet concentrate into a matte of forty to forty - five per cent copper made the furnace one of the most efficient in the world . Nevertheless , it is a freak process and when D. H. ...
... pyritic smelting and the successful smelting of a wet concentrate into a matte of forty to forty - five per cent copper made the furnace one of the most efficient in the world . Nevertheless , it is a freak process and when D. H. ...
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