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Officially named the Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack and standing at an impressive 1,215 feet (370 m) - roughly the same height as the Empire State Building.
This shot was taken from within a shallow & very muddy area of the Great Salt Lake
A short walk into the shallow area of the Great Salt Lake for this evening view. My first day with a new Sony a7 III.
This smelter is in full production of iron ore pellets and has its own docking facilities for the cargo ships which transport their product to other Australian ports and overseas. It is operated by Grange Resources and is one of the major employers in the region.
Kennecott Copper Corp. GP39-2s No. 905 and 792 pull a train up the Dike Spur near Smelter Junction the evening of July 18, 1996. The 20 empties were interchange received from the Union Pacific at Garfield, Utah. KCC would later work on the Montana Western (Rarus Railway) between Butte and Garrison.
I jumped at the chance to explore a little brook I had never known about, not too far from home, with Peter S. from the photo club, and it was terrific in the woods Friday morning even though it was raining....well, drizzling at first...full on rain when we gave in and went home...
The Smelt are running in the Lewis River!! The Bald Eagles swoop in and grab a Smelt out of the river, and find a spot to land and enjoy their tasty treet. Photo taken in Woodland, Washington.
During our short holiday in England we visited the Forest of Bowland for 2 days. Heather and withered ferns add color to the landscape. We enjoyed this wunderful moorland during our walking and driving through the area. Dunsop Bridge, Forest of Bowland, 2023.
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Union Pacific SD40-2s No. 3658, 3517, and 3463 pull the Ogden - Los Angeles manifest at the east switch Lake Point, Utah the evening of June 2, 1990. The landscape here has changed considerably in 30 years. The large pile of smelter slag at left is long gone. Also changed is the Kennecott Copper ore smelter, replaced with a modern facility, painted beige. The 1,215 ft. high Kennecott Smelter Stack remains, and according to Wikipedia is "the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world and the fifty-ninth tallest free-standing structure on earth. It is the only operating smelter chimney left in Utah."
(founded 1915) Plant for producing manganese alloy. Together with the hydropower deliverer Saudefaldene it was owned by Union Carbide. Now owned by the French corporation Eramet (Wikipedia).
The Nyrstar Hobart smelter is one of the world’s largest zinc smelters in terms of production volume, focusing on high-value added products for export primarily to Asia.
A California Sea Lion with a Smelt haning out of its mouth! The Sea Lions are in the Lewis River, dining on the Smelt run. Photo taken in Woodland, Washington.
Another shot from the day jaunt a few weeks ago, to Swaledale in North Yorkshire, and another ruined old smelting mill.
The Caribbean island of Aruba had a gold rush in the mid 19th century; there are a couple of sets of these ruins on the island where they separated the gold from the ore. These ruins lie along a rocky beach on the rugged eastern (Atlantic Ocean) side of the island.
Kennecott Copper GP39-2s pull a box car from the Union Pacific yard at Garfield, Utah on Sept. 13, 1997. KCCX 799 and 790 were built by EMD for Kennecott Copper in Oct. and Nov. 1978, respectively. 790 went on to serve on the Twin Cities & Western (with a lowered cab) as No. 2301 and 799 continues to work these same rails in the present as OmahaTrack No. 3905. Info from UtahRails.net
A shot of the Old Gang Smelting Works ruins in the Yorkshire Dales. This was the last shot I took there and was a last minute grab with my phone as we commenced our walk back to the car.
The yards and original stables were built in 1849 for up to 100 horses, using slag blocks from the smelting works. The complex contained a storeroom, to house smelting stores, and a blacksmith's shop. In c1853, to augment the carting services of the bullock teams, the smelting company imported mules and their drivers from Chile. The smeltsyard became the main service centre for these mule teams and the wagons they Former Smeltsyard Store, 2005 hauled, and soon contained all necessary equipment for maintaining the equipment and shoeing the animals. The yards also maintained stables for a number of horses.
After the railway reached Burra in 1870, the mule and bullock teams were no longer necessary for transportation of the ore, and the smeltsyard's function declined. In 1877 Burra's first Agricultural and Horticultural Show was held in the yard and stables, and continued on this site until 1885.