Talk:Govăjdia Blast Furnace

A fact from Govăjdia Blast Furnace appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 February 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that steel produced at Govăjdia (furnace pictured) and at Reşiţa in present-day Romania was used in the building of the Eiffel Tower?

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What did this blast furnace produce? There is a claim in the DYK here that "it produced steel for the Eiffel Tower", except that there's no indication that this site produced any steel, and the Eiffel Tower isn't even made of steel.

A blast furnace produces pig iron. An old photo here shows workers posing with cast iron objects, so there may well have been a cupola furnace for producing castings from the iron. There's no indication of any of the furnaces necessary to produce either wrought iron or steel. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:02, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]