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Marker photo: "poling"
Photographer: Courtesy of Anaconda Historical Society Archives
Caption: Marker photo: "poling"
Additional Description: Smeltermen “poling” the copper casting furnace. Pine logs were used to help burn off oxygen before the copper was cast into anodes. In the early 1970s, natural gas replaced the burning timber in this process.
Submitted: January 3, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p459248
File Size: 0.188 Megabytes

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