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Canadian Copper Refiners Ltd. Electric Furnace Melting Practice

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Electric furnace installation and tough-pitch copper-casting operation at Canadian Copper Refiners Ltd. are described. General layout, power supply and control, refractories, induction pour hearth, casting equipment, metal temperature control, and oxygen-content control are discussed.

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  1. H. S. McKnight: Montreal East Plant of Canadian Copper Refiners Limited. Trans. AIME (1933) 106, pp. 352–368.

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  2. J. H. Schloen and E. M. Elkin: Canadian Copper Refiners Montreal East Plant. Trans. Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy (1946) 49, pp. 143–190.

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  1. Canadian Copper Refiners Ltd., Montreal East, Quebec, Canada

    Warren A. Sheaffer

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Discussion of this paper, TP 3850D, may be sent, 2 copies, to AIME by Mar. 1, 1955. Manuscript, Feb. 4, 1954. New York Meeting, February 1954.

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Sheaffer, W.A. Canadian Copper Refiners Ltd. Electric Furnace Melting Practice. JOM 7, 33–38 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03377451

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