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At the Tennessee Copper Company smelter at Copperhill, copper ore was smelted in large furnaces at temperatures just under 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten copper was separated from the other elements in the raw ore and poured into large ladles. An overhead crane then moved the molten copper into a mold, where cooling produced a large slab of market-ready copper.
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