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<p>Cornwall Iron Furnance on Google will be the best place to start. It is a foundry. There are pictures galore on this site and others.</p><p>There are those industries that generate raw metals.</p><p>There are those that process this raw metal into semi finished form.</p><p>And those that take this semi finished metals and make something for people to use.</p><p>A foundry such as Cornwall takes the following recipie:</p><p> </p><p>15 bushel Charcoal</p><p>400-500 pounds of ore</p><p>30-40 pounds of limestone</p><p>Every half hour.</p><p>24/7.</p><p> </p><p>And the furnance is tapped about twice a day I believe and the molten iron pours into the sand molds below.</p><p> </p><p>My figures are to be taken with a grain of salt, shaking the dark corners of the internet until the little pearls of wisdom fell out with this information took some research.</p>
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