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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
It's not the melting it. It's smelting it.
Where you dig what amounts to rust out of the ground, turn the rust into iron and add a little bit of carbon that stays with the iron while removing impurities.
Remelting steel and iron to recycle it using an electric arc furnace is common.
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I just looked at smelting. It looks like you electrically heat the ore ,while adding a chemical reducing agent.