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Extracting (Smelting)

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Smelting Revision.
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Extracting (Smelting)
  1. Heating an ore strongly in a furnace
    1. Produces impure copper
      1. Can be purified by electrolysis
      2. Requires a lot of heating and electricity
        1. Phytomining
          1. Plants are burned to produce ash which copper can be extracted
          2. Bioleaching
            1. Uses bacteria to produce solutions containing copper
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