The copper smelting process is a critical step in the production of copper from its ores, involving the extraction ... gases and liquids within smelting furnaces is essential for optimizing ...
During the seventeenth century the smelting of lead, copper and iron in reverberatory furnaces was attempted by various individuals at several places; the furnaces being generally without chimneys.
But new research based out of what some consider King Solomon’s fabled copper mines is upending ... to the locations of the ancient smelting furnaces,” and well within current US Environmental ...