The final week begins and this time everything is a little bit different. The newbies will arrive later, for today we are on our own. That’s okay because workload is not that heavy this week – we don’t use the shaft furnace but focus on the matte smelting. With reinvigorated forces the slag cake from last week was crushed and prepared to become copper (grinding, grinding, grinding…).
In the evening we had a movie night. Of course we watched a documentation about traditional copper ore smelting in Nepal to get some inspiration for the last experiments. After the movie, all became clear why it don’t worked so far: we missed the most crucial parts, a sacrificed chicken and a heavyly drunken furnace master. Let’s have a look if there is a henhouse around here…
