Bessemer Steel Ores and Methods New Facts and Statistics Relating to the Types of Machinery in Use, the Methods in Vogue, Cost and Class of Labor in the Manufacture of Bessemer Steel in E

Excerpt from Bessemer Steel; Ores and Methods: New Facts and Statistics Relating to the Types of Machinery in Use, the Methods in Vogue, Cost and Class of Labor Employed, and the Character and Availability of the Ores Utilized in the Manufacture of Bessemer Steel in Europe and the United States

The ore is SO soft in texture that a man for a day's work can blast and load 10 tons into the wagons, which ascend the hill by a Spiral locomotive railway cut in the ore all the way.

The produce of Cornwall banks is contaminated with sul phur - possibly the most sulphureous ore of its kind in the world. This deleterious ingredient is in a great measure removed in the blast furnaces by the copious use of lime, and the ore being free from phosphorus, the resulting pig iron 1s Ill favor at the Bessemer steel works. The producing powers Of this remarkable accumulation Of ore are very large, probably - if fully exercised - amounting to some thousands of tons per day.

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