RI 3245 Smelting In The Lead Blast Furnace - Handling Zinciferous Charges. XIII. - Accretions At Various Elevations Within Blast Furnace, And Factors Governing Manner And Rate Of Descent Of Stock Column

The data in this paper were collected at the Trail smelter of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada, Limited, through the courtesy of S. G. Blaylock, vice president and general manager; James Buchanan, smelter superintendent; George Murray, assistant smelter superintendent; and the staff members given in Paper XI, Report of Investigations 3243. INTRODUCTION This paper is the thirteenth of the series on Smelting in the Lead Blast Furnace, and the third of the series on Handling Zinciferous Charges. Tyro other papers have been written on the Rate of Descent of the Stock Column, and Formation of Accretions. These are Reports of Investigations 2963 and 3094, for the Tooele plant and the Bunker Hill plant, respectively.