Smelting Collection (page 4)

BC: Trail, Columbia River Basin, Teck Cominco Smelting Plant on Columbia River (Editorial Usage Only)

Lead smelting. From Agricola De re metallica, Basel 1556. Woodcut

Blast furnace for smelting iron ore. From Agricola De re Metallica, Basle, 1556. Woodcut

Smelting of ores (gold, silver, copper and lead). Workman beats clay to make lute to line furnace. On floor are various tools needed during process. From Agricola De re metallica, Basel 1556

Bellows operated by camshaft powered by water wheel. (just visible at extreme right) supplying draught to a smelting furnace

Cornish tinners using pack mules to carry their ore from the mine to the smelting house. From Scenes in England by the Rev. Isaac Taylor, London, 1822. Hand-coloured engraving

Reverberatory furnace for smelting metals. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice)
Reverberatory furnace for smelting metals. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540)

Smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice)
Smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. From De la pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio (Venice, 1540)

Smelting copper. From a 1683 English edition of Lazarus Ercker Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten originally published in Prague in 1574. Copperplate engraving

BLAST FURNACES, FROM THE RIVER, MIDDLESBROUGH, a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in north east England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. UK

Small blast furnaces in hunan province, china, great leap forward, 1950s

Talnakh power station at night C018 / 2342
Electricity generation. View of the Talnakh-2 thermal power plant at night. Talnakh is part of the vast Norilsk metal ore field

Smelting ore, 16th century C017 / 6995
Smelting ore. 16th-century woodcut showing a man smelting ore using bellows to provide oxygen to the fire. Glassware and a furnace are at left

Lomonosovs smelting furnace
Smelting furnace. Diagram for a design of smelting furnace drawn by Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-65), Russian polymath. This design is self-inflating, meaning that it creates a draught that fans the fire

Sample of molten copper being taken
Copper. Technicians taking a sample of copper for testing at a refinery. One is using a pipe to blow on the surface or the molten metal to prevent surface contaminations being included in the sample

Molten copper flowing at a foundry
Copper. A stream of molten copper being poured at a foundry. Photographed at the Kyshtym copper plant at Chelyabinsk, Russia

Copper smelting plant, Russia
Copper. A copper smelting oven in a factory. Photographed at the Karabashmed copper plant at Chelyabinsk, Russia

Rolls of aluminium at a smelting plant C015 / 2908
Aluminium production. A worker checking rolls of sheet aluminium at a smelting plant. Photographed at the RUSAL factory at Sayanogorsk, Russia

Smelting hall of aluminium plant
Aluminium production. A row of electrolytic cells at an aluminium smelting plant. Aluminium is produced by the electrolysis of a molten mixture of aluminium oxide and sodium aluminium fluoride

Chimney of a copper smelting plant
Pollution. Chimney of a copper smelting plant releasing a plume of smoke and steam. Photographed at Chelyabinsk, Russia

Copper plate casting at a foundry
Copper. A worker checking the casting of copper plates at a foundry. The copper derived from ores is cast into large plates. These are then purified by an electrolytic process

Portable Laboratory Furnaces C017 / 3514
Plate from 18th century encyclopedia showing an illustration of various types of portable furnaces including digesting, smelting, zinc, testing and distilling furnaces. and melting vessels

Metalworking factory C014 / 0764
Metalworking factory. Worker in the smelting room of the Norilsk Nickel Co. non-ferrous metalworks, Nadezhdinsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia

Smelter and refinery, artwork
Smelter and refinery, historical artwork. Smelting is the process of removing pure metal from its ore by heating the oxidized ore in the presence of a reducing agent and a fluxing agent

Blast furnace at a steel mill C017 / 8289
Steel production. View of a blast furnace at a steel mill. This is where iron ore is mixed with coke and limestone and heated to produce liquid iron

Pouring molten copper at a refinery C018 / 2345
Copper production. Molten copper being poured into ingot moulds. The ingots are like thick plates. These can later be sent for purification by electrolysis

Pouring molten copper at a refinery C018 / 2346
Copper production. Molten copper being poured into ingot moulds. The ingots are like thick plates. These can later be sent for purification by electrolysis

Slag cooling process. Photographed in Lackenby, Teesside

Froth flotation tank at copper refinery C018 / 2344
Copper production. View across a froth flotation tank at a copper smelting plant. Copper ore is crushed to a rough powder, wet to form a slurry then treated with a xanthate

Copper smelting works C018 / 2347
Copper smelting works

Copper sulfide froth in a flotation tank C018 / 2351
Copper production. View of a copper sulphide froth in a flotation tank at a copper smelting plant. Copper ore is crushed to a rough powder, wet to form a slurry then treated with a xanthate

Foundry. Worker at the foundry of the Rezh Mechanical Plant, Rezh, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Gold bullion C013 / 5139
Gold bullion. Molten gold being poured into an ingot mould. Photographed at the Zoloto Severnogo Urala plant, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Gold refinery
Gold bullion. Worker holding a newly formed bar of gold at the Uralelectromed gold refinery. Photographed in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Gold refinery C013 / 5335
Gold refinery. Workers casting 24 karat gold bars at a refinery. Photographed in Novosibirsk, Russia

Gold refinery C013 / 5336
Gold refinery. 24 karat gold bars being cast at a refinery. Photographed in Novosibirsk, Russia

Smelting cannons (17th c.). Fresco

Iron Smelting / Germany
GERMANY Iron smelting at Molitor & Co. Heidelberg Date: 1900

IRON SMELTING, c1855. Molten iron flows from the blast furnace through a main channel to molds in a sand-bed to cool into ingots known as pigs because of the resemblance to a sow suckling a litter

COPPER SMELTING. Smelting copper in a reverberatory furnace. Line engraving, French, mid-18th century, from Denis Diderots Encyclopedia

Coastal erosion near chimney from old smelting works, near Jenny Browns Point, Silverdale, works near Jenny Browns Point, Silverdale, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, England, april

Smelting and refining plant, The Omaha and Grant Smelting Company, Omaha, Nebraska

San Mauricio Mine
The only smelting plant at the San Mauricio Mine at the Marsman Company at Camarines Norte, Luzon, Philippines. The sulphur fumes created have destroyed plants for miles. Date: 1930s

Blast furnace at steelworks, Teesside Steelworks, Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland, Teesside, North Yorkshire, England, may

Early humans smelting bronze
Early humans smelting and working bronze, coloured artwork. Bronze is an alloy of tin and copper. During the Bronze Age (around 3300 to 1200 BC), humans mixed ores of tin and copper with charcoal

Early humans smelting iron
Early humans smelting and working iron, coloured artwork. The high temperatures required to obtain iron metal from its ore were not possible until the development of advanced smelting techniques

Metalworks foundry worker wearing protective clothing as he opens a cover to allow molten metal to flow from a smelter into a sluice

Sparks fly in a foundry during copper smelting
Copper smelting. Sparks fly in a foundry during the smelting of copper. In smelting, metallic ore is heated to a high temperature with other chemicals

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