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By 1872 the smelting of cupreous pyrites in blast furnaces had virtually ceased because of the shortage of charcoal. The size of the blast furnaces was limited to the water power available to drive the bellows; very often the bellows had to be worked manually. The advent of the RTC using steam power revived interest in smelting pyrites.
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Salkield, L.U. (1987). Pyrometallurgical development. In: Cahalan, M.J. (eds) A technical history of the Rio Tinto mines: some notes on exploitation from pre-Phoenician times to the 1950s. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3377-4_14
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