Forestry location, not ore deposits, determined where smelting occurred.

Evidence

The prevalence of trees and wood influenced the location of the smelting and refining operations; it was cheaper to move the ore to the forest than vice versa. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 324

Categorization

• CANDY: A tidy counterintuitive tidbit: the foundry goes to the woodpile, not the vein — energy outweighs ore in siting extractive industry.