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5. The smelted lead is periodically removed from the furnace by jiggling the stick in the tap hole to allow the molten metal to drip into a shallow iron bowl placed beneath it. The lead that is produced in this way is used in the the process of cupellation, which is described below.

• Charcoal making process
  
• Huayrachinas
  
• Preparing Ore
  
• Smelting
  
• Tapping Lead
  
• Remains of Dismantled
  Huayrachina
  
• Cupellation Furnace
  
• Preparing Silver Ore
  
• Preparing Cupellation Furnace
  
• Final Product.

Funding for this project provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Curtiss T. Brennan and Mary G. Brennan Foundation, and Colorado State University.

Questions about this webpage or the contents herein should be directed to: Andrew.Mueller@lamar.colostate.edu