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Old Gang Smelt Mill
Old Gang Smelt Mill near Reeth, Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire. In the smelt mill, the ore pellets of limestone, often calcite and galena (lead) were heated in a furnace. The lead, with its low melting point could fairly quickly be separated, drained away and poured into moulds to make ingots of pure metal.
Author: Joan Martin
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Photograph size: 15.8 Mpixels (45.1 MB uncompressed) - 4865x3243 pixels (16.2x10.8 in / 41.2x27.5 cm at 300 ppi)
Photograph keywords: galena, lead, lead mining, metal, Old Gang Smelt Mill, ore, Reeth, smelt mill, smelting, Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales
Published in: Lead, Reeth and Grinton
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