smeltery
Americannoun
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smelteries
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To old steel hands used to the authoritative roar of a huge blast furnace, the new plant that began operating this week at Niagara Falls, Ont., neither looked nor sounded like an iron smeltery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, for the first time, a smeltery can work iron ore over with the same thoroughness that an oil refinery uses to squeeze every last product out of crude oil.
From Time Magazine Archive
I visited a huge smeltery not long ago, and saw how gold and silver were separated from their ores.
From Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 by Various
So cheaply and quickly is it mined and transported that it is delivered to the smelteries at a cost varying from $1.75 to $3.25 per ton.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
There are districts that have many small gold and silver mines with ores that do not yield to simple milling processes and which must therefore be shipped to custom smelteries.
From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. Hoskin
What ravaging armies had left was burned in the smelteries.
From Hero Tales of the Far North by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
The iron and coal are utilized in steel smelteries and rolling-mills, glass-factories, sugar-refineries, and textile-mills.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
The smelteries and rolling-mills are built at places where the materials are most conveniently hauled.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
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