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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Poling in the refining furnace. Wooden poles are plunged into the molten copper; there is a great evolution of gases when this is done and the excess oxygen combines with the carbon of the wood and passes off as carbon monixide. This refining of blister has a stronger affinity for the impurities in the charge than it has for copper by Russell Lee
Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Poling in the refining furnace. Wooden poles are plunged into the molten copper; there is a great evolution of gases when this is done and the excess oxygen combines with the carbon of the wood and passes off as carbon monixide. This refining of blister has a stronger affinity for the impurities in the charge than it has for copper by Russell Lee
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