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ELECTRIC steel melting and refining is now an established industry, but the electric smelting of pig-iron from the ore has recently entered on a new phase, namely, the commercially successful. The writer has had given to him, in confidence, figures of costs in connection with an electric furnace making charcoal pig-iron, with permission to mention the facts without the figures. It is clear that under conditions where the fuel is charcoal, and is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive, so far as can be judged from experience with a furnace of commercial size working for months, the smelting of high-grade ore into charcoal pig-iron is proving profitable. Only the balance sheet is a safe guide, but this test is about to be applied on quite a large scale.
Notes on the Electric Smelting of Iron and Steel.
By Dr. W. F. Smeeth. Bulletin No. 5, Mysore Geological Department. Pp. vii + 136; maps. (Bangalore: Government Press, 1909.) Price 2 rupees.
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W., A. Notes on the Electric Smelting of Iron and Steel . Nature 84, 103 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084103c0
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