He also helped increase copper production in Kyshtym, Russia, through the use of pyritic smelting.
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Copper production, using pyritic smelting, eventually reached 25, 000, 000 pounds a year.
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Sticht persuaded the company to use pyritic smelting, designed and supervised the erection of the reduction works plant and in 1897 was appointed general manager of the company.
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Although a technical success, pyritic smelting had a " horrendous cost to the environment in the destruction of a vast area of rainforest and in pollution of rivers ".
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Open roasting was replaced by pyritic smelting in 1904, and the smelters began recovering the most of the sulfur in the form of sulfuric acid rather than releasing it to the atmosphere.
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