Are these blast furnaces or bloomeries? Here are some references on
19th- and 20th-century blast furnaces in Yunnan.
Regards
Don Wagner
Coggin Brown (1920a, pp. 82-97)
Coggin Brown (1920b, pp. 337-339)
Moore-Bennet (1915, pp. 220-221)
Rocher (1879-80, vol. 2, pp. 195-218)
Tegengren (1923-24, pp. 347-364)
Coggin Brown, J. (1920a). 'The mines and mineral resources of Yunnan,
with short accounts of its agricultural products and trade.' Memoirs
of the Geological Survey of India, 1920a, 47 (no. 1), 1-201 + plates
1-8.
Coggin Brown, J. (1920b). 'The mines and minerals of Yunnan, south
China.' The mining magazine, 1920b, 23 (no. 5, 6), 267-77, 331-42.
Note repr., Far Eastern review, 1921, 17 (nos. 4, 6, 7), 248-54,
391-5, 465-9.
Moore-Bennet, Arthur J. (1915). 'The mineral area of western China.'
Far Eastern review, 1915, 12 (no. 6), 215-227.
Rocher, Émile (1879-80). La province chinoise du Yün-nan. 2 vols.,
Leroux, Paris, 1879-80.
Tegengren, F. R. (1923-24). The iron ores and iron industry of China:
Including a summary of the iron situation of the circum-Pacific
region. 2 vols., Geological Survey of China, Ministry of Agriculture
and Commerce, Peking, 1923-24. (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of
China, series A, no. 2). Part I 1921-23, part II 1923-24. Xerographic
repr. available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich., order
no. OP 12715.
>Has anyone worked on early iron furnaces in Thailand, eastern India or
>Yunnan?
>I'm looking for some comparative data after excavating a furnace site in
>Burma.
>I'd appreciate any comments/info if you would care to read the preliminary
>report on the website:
>
>http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/~hudson/furnaces.PDF
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