Minor addition to the information given in this chapter: that method of casting is called lost-wax casting. You suspend the wax in a container, pour in a special type of refractory (withstands heat well but falls apart in water), ideally use a vacuum chamber to get out the bubbles, then burn out the wax first. Senkuu kinda implied they just pour in the metal while the wax is in there, so I mostly felt I had to add that part of the information.
One "recipe" for investment refractory I've found is 89% silica, 3% fused magnesia, 6% ammonium dihydrogen phosphate and 2% magnesium dihydrogen phosphate.