ThankYou for writing this. I grew up in a mining town in Eastern India, where I’d see 100s of dump trucks ferrying coal to power coke oven batteries to reduce

ThankYou for writing this. I grew up in a mining town in Eastern India, where I’d see 100s of dump trucks ferrying coal to power coke oven batteries to reduce coal to coke. The coke would be then sent to neighboring steel plant. There the coke would be used to “reduce”the ore to steel. IIRC, it was the blast furnace that took the coke and melted the ore. Been a while, but reading your post rekindled those memories.