THE IRON INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL
(PROVINCE OF MINAS GERAES.)
By Prof. P. FERRAND.
Up to the present time, the methods employed in the province of Minas Geraes (Brazil) for obtaining iron permit of manufacturing it direct from the ore without the intervening process of casting. These methods are two in number:
1. The method by cadinhes (crucibles), which is the simpler and requires but little manipulation, but permits of the production of but a small quantity of metal at a time.
2. The Italian method, a variation of the Catalan, which requires more skill on the part of the workmen and yields more iron than the preceding.
As these methods seem to me of interest, from the standpoint of their simplicity and easy installation, I propose to describe them briefly, in order to give as faithful and general an aperçu as possible of their application. At present I shall deal with the first one only, the one called the method by Cadinhes.