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06:49 Aug 4, 2018 |
Swedish to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Mining & Minerals / Gems | |||||||
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roasting hut Explanation: Copper ore is heated, roasted, to get the sulphide out. Hence the text that follows. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2018-08-04 09:12:15 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Also called burning house, according to the mining directory I referenced in the "fatare" discussion: "Burning House Construction with a furnace for burning off unwanted arsenides and sulphides. Used from at least the 16th century, particularly as more load matrerial was being processed." |
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