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安德鲁·卡内基：安德鲁·卡内基自传·补录 341
安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导
One day he sent us a report of analyses of ore remarkable for the absence of phosphorus. It was really an ore suitable for making Bessemer steel. Such a discovery attracted our attention at once. The owner of the property was Moses Thompson, a rich farmer, proprietor of seven thousand acres of the most beautiful agricultural land in Center County, Pennsylvania. An appointment was made to meet him upon the ground from which the ore had been obtained. We found the mine had been worked for a charcoal blast furnace fifty or sixty years before, but it had not borne a good reputation then, the reason no doubt being that its product was so much purer than other ores that the same amount of flux used caused trouble in smelting. It was so good it was good for nothing in those days of old.
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定位：Additional excerpt 341 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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化学家送来一份矿石分析报告，磷含量极低，正好适合造贝塞麦钢，这立刻引起卡内基注意。矿主是富农摩西·汤普森，拥有宾夕法尼亚中心县七千英亩良田。他们约好到出矿地点见面，发现那里五六十年前曾为木炭高炉供矿，但当时名声不好——原因恰恰是矿石太纯，同样用量的熔剂反而让冶炼出问题。核心是：一个东西在旧技术下“好得没法用”，换到新技术下可能就成了宝贝。
上下文
出自卡内基自传，讲述他发现低磷铁矿的经过，这种矿正好匹配当时新兴的贝塞麦炼钢法。
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你手里有没有被旧标准判为“没用”的资源，换一个场景可能就价值巨大？
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