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Even in the dark, there is something to see at the Quincy Smelter site in the Keweenaw National Historic Park.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N using a Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 lens with a Didymium filter on account of an overcast sky and sodium vapor light reflections.
Silverton's smaller smelter was above Cement Creek at the north end of town. It was served by the SG&N and it appears that at least two of the boxcars in this picture bear RGS lettering. There are about 10 people at work in this picture. Fine granular slag from this site was mixed into the concrete used to lay Silverton's sidewalks in 1912, only problem being that it is somewhat radioactive. Opened in 1900, closed by 1908, per the Rainbow Route. And some nasty looking black stuff is inching its way down the hill to the edge of what are labeled "waters of the United States" by our newly found friends in the EPA who have taken up a strong presence in our little burg..
Non-native rainbow smelts have long thin bodies, ranging colors of purple, pink and blue iridescent sides.
Photo by Mara Koenig/USFWS
Delta smelt that are part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refugio population at Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery near Shasta Dam/Redding. USFWS Photo/Steve Martarano
A Delta Smelt that is held as part of a refugial population at the Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery. Photo: Laura Mahoney/USFWS
Martha Rose, later renamed Walsh Smelter, by about 1917 had fallen into disrepair. The slag heaps to the left ended up being ballast for the D&RGW. By 2018, where the structures are a $2 million cleanup has provided the site for affordable housing now under construction. Ruins of the North Star Mill across Mineral Creek are still present.
A long shot across the Verde River at some of the buildings at the former smelter. The stacks were knocked down quite a few years ago. UVX stood for United Verde Extension.
Title: Smelter charging floor
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1902
Part Of: Mexican Mining & Smelting Company
Place: Mexico
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 12 x 17 cm on 18 x 25 cm mount
File: ag1983_0276_12a_sm_opt.jpg
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Wallaroo Smelters operated 1861-1923. The Copper Store was built in 1906 and partly demolished in 1930. Wallaroo South Australia
gutted and ready to go.
I hadn't eaten smelt since I was a kid. My dad would bring back bags of rainbow smelt back from trips to Port Huron or Point Pelee and fry them up. I remember going but we were always skunked those times. I couldn't pass these up when I passed a stall at the farmers' market selling these guys from Eureka. $4 a pound seems steep but I was willing to pay that for a little reminiscing.
These turned out excellently, although I did over fry one batch. They're like paczci; you're bound to screw up the first batch. :)
Undated but probably around the time period of World War I. The smelter has been inactive since about 1897 and is in a derelict situation. Most of this was removed by about 1919.
Several of the round "buttons" of slag seen here are preserved at our museum, the rest of this slag pile became ballast for the D&RGW in the 1960-70 period. The 2 boxcars are sitting on the D&RG's spur to the North Star mill shown top right across Mineral Creek.
And fast forward to 2022--Dear Shane, owner of some of this land is discovering what used to sit here--surprise.
Cascade County. Smelter was a post office at a silver-lead smelting operation located very near to the present-day Giant Springs State Park in Great Falls. The smelter covered 250 acres with 75 buildings and featured a 125-foot roaster stack and a 150-foot blast furnace stack. All that remains are the base of the roaster stack (pictured) and a retaining wall along the Giant Springs Road. The Smelter post office operated from 1888 (October 16) to 1901 (May 31). Val Laubenheimer served as the first postmaster.
Always.
In fact, so much so you wonder if he just spent all day eating it.
But then, surely all that sugar would wreak havoc with his teeth...
oh wait...
It's all becoming much clearer now.
Wherever you are now uncle Pete, may there be a bountiful supply of Marzipan.
Yup.
I know you'd love to:
Jeg var ikke helt fornøyd med smeltingen, og bruker en embossingmaskin til å smelte litt ekstra. Vær forsiktig, det skal ikke mye til.
Slike embossingmaskiner kan kjøpes i hobbyforretninger og andre steder der de selger utstyr til scrap-booking. Den fungerer som en varmluftpistol, men er ikke så kraftig.
En bør egentlig bruke noe brannsikkert som underlag når en bruker slike maskiner. (f eks aluminiumsfole)
Clock & Chimes Souvenir Postcard
Written on the side: "In order to enhance value, Mr. Robert Sticht has, at Clock Committee's request, kindly destroyed printer's plate used in the production of this card."
A room within a room in the Quincy Smelter in Ripley, Michigan. The smelter operated from 1898 until 1967, refining copper from the Quincy Mine, on the hill above nearby Hancock, Michigan.
The smelter is private property, and is normally closed to the public. However, the smelter was briefly opened for tours last weekend, and I had the special opportunity to enjoy a photographic tour. I had amazing access to the abandoned buildings at the site, some left almost as they were when the smelter closed -- papers on desks, stacks of materials in the corners, machinery in place.
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Converters, Anaconda Reduction Works
Image taken from p 36 The Anaconda Reduction Works, July 1920.
Unique ID: mze-anac1920p 36
Type: Pamphlet
Contributors: Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Date Digital: July 2010
Date Original: 1920
Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)
Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.
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Jake Keen demonstrates iron smelting during one of the Practical Archaeology Courses held at Down Farm, Cranborne Chase.
McGill, Nevada; McGill is a former company town built in phases between 1908 and the 1930's by Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. to house the workers for it's smelter that had been built in the area. In 1932 the smelter and town were acquired by the Kennecott Copper Co. who continued to operate the smelter and exercised control of the town. The population peaked at just over 3,000 in the 1930's. The smelter closed in 1983 causing the population to fall dramatically. Today, about 1,000 or so live in McGill.
Delta smelt that are part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refugio population at Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery near Shasta Dam/Redding. USFWS Photo/Steve Martarano
a smelt shack is a simple, portable hut used for smelt fishing. when the river freezes, the guys bring the shack down and put it on the river. there's no floor on one side, so that you can chop a hole in the ice and fish through it. and always bring a lantern and a kerosene heater.
a smelt is a very small fish, usually deep fried whole.
just in case you didn't know.
Using heat, the pure nickel would rise to the top of the furnace or melting pots. Being red hot, or molten ore, the top portion of the ore was made to seperate by mixing the ore. This was a spectacular sight caused a great deal of sparks. As the ore melted, ferro silicaon was ontroduced in the form of ingots made from the silicon furnace.