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casting pit
The space in a foundry in which molds are placed and castings are made. In the Bessemer and open-hearth steelworks, it is the space utilized for casting the molten steel into cast iron ingot molds.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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(Milwaukee, United States)