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Definition of Smelteries
1. smeltery [n] - See also: smeltery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smelteries
Literary usage of Smelteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallurgy of the Common Metals, Gold, Silver, Iron (and Steel), Copper by Leonard Strong Austin (1921)
"ORE PRICES; COLORADO AND UTAH SILVER-LEAD smelteries Silver-lead and Dry Ores.—The
price per ton, dry weight, delivered at the smelting works, depends upon ..."
2. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1910)
"First worked in 1793. Ore pyrrhotite with fine chalcopyrite. A :6X44 >n- furnace
has been erected. Copper Mines and smelteries of Shasta County: GA Packard. ..."
3. Mining Practices by Engineering and Mining Journal (1919)
"In 1916 there was produced from the smelteries in the lower Mississippi Valley
512000 tons of ... Of this amount Kansas and Missouri smelteries produced 34% ..."
4. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"They are enriched by crushing and washing, and furnish products with 73-80, 65-68
and 45-58 per cent, lead which go to the smelteries. ..."
5. The Mineral Industry by Richard Pennefather Rothwell (1915)
"The Chillagoe, Ltd., closed down its smelteries early in the year, owing to the
high cost of fuel and the slow progress made with the construction of the ..."
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