LECTURE I. PAGES
History of Copper — Development of the
Copper Industry — Progress of Smelting
Practice — Price and Cost of Production of
Copper — Copper Statistics, 1–17
LECTURE II.
The Uses of Copper: as Metal and as
Alloy — The Physical Properties of
Copper — Effects of Impurities — Mechanical
Properties — Chemical Properties, 18–34
LECTURE III.
Compounds of Copper — Copper Mattes — The
Varieties of Commercial Copper — Ores
of Copper — Preliminary Treatment of
Ores — Sampling, 35–50
LECTURE IV.
Modern Copper Smelting Practice — Preliminary
Treatment of Ores: Concentration, Briquetting,
Sintering — The Principles of Copper Smelting
— Roasting, 51–80
LECTURE V.
Reverberatory Smelting Practice: — Functions
of the Reverberatory Furnace — Requirements
for Successful Working — Principles of Modern
Reverberatory Practice — Operation of Modern
Large Furnaces — Fuels for Reverberatory Work;
Oil Fuel; Analysis of Costs — Condition of the
Charge, 81–112
LECTURE VI.
Blast-Furnace Practice: — Functions of the
Furnace — Reduction Smelting — Oxidation
in the Furnace — The Pyritic Principle
— Features of Modern Working: Water-Jacketing,
Increase in Furnace Size, External Settling
— Constructional Details of the Furnace, 113–145
LECTURE VII.
Modern Blast-Furnace Practice
(_continued_): — Charge Calculations
— Working — Disposal of Products — Pyritic
Smelting — Sulphuric Acid Manufacture from
Smelter Gases, 146–191
LECTURE VIII.
The Bessemerising of Copper
Mattes: — Development of the Process — The
Converter — Converter Linings — Grade of
Matte — Operation of the Process — Systems
of Working, 192–216
LECTURE IX.
The Purification and Refining of Crude
Copper: — Preliminary Refining and
Casting into Anodes — Electrolytic
Refining — Bringing to Pitch, and Casting
of Merchant Copper, 217–243