A blast furnace model and the mouth of a blast furnace

Learn how pig iron was smelted from iron ore, lime and coke. The liquid iron was "tapped" from the mouth hole. Tapping at the blast furnaces took place about every 4 hours.   PLG_GSPEECH_SPEECH_BLOCK_TITLE A blast furnace model and the mouth of a blast furnaceLearn how pig iron was smelted from iron ore, lime and coke. The liquid iron was tapped from the mouth hole. Tapping at the blast furnaces took place about every 4 hours.

The last tapping on 07/10/92 at Maxhütte before closure of the technically overhauled preliminary stage.