Smelting Collection (page 5)

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

16th century smelting of ores
Illustration of blast furnaces for smelting copper- lead ores, published in De Re Metallica, 1556 by Agricola, a German minerologist & physician

Metalworks foundry equipment. Bucket carrying molten metal across a metalworks foundry area. This is the smelter shop in the Nadezhdinsky metalworks of the Norilsk Nickel Company

Aluminium production
Aluminium smelting process. Schematic diagram of the production of aluminium metal from aluminium ore (bauxite). The first stage (left) is the Bayer Process to produce alumina (aluminium oxide)

Gold ore processing plant
Gold production. View of a large processing facility for treating gold ores. This kind of plant is used with high refractory ores

Smelting precious metal ores
Smelting. View of a smelting oven used to recover precious metals from their ores. Photographed at the Krastsvetmet plant at Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Blast furnace for steel production. Molten metal (yellow) is flowing from the blast furnace, a structure designed to heat the metal ore with air to separated the ore into the metal

Iron Smelting / Africa
Central Africa: iron smelting with long sticks

Smelting Ore, Sweden
Medieval depiction of smelting ore, Sweden

Wheal Coates mine at St Agnes in Cornwall UK
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