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Secondary lead smelting...basically pointing a flame thrower at scraps placed in a crucible. Then pouring onto flat metal tray. This is for more horse skin....and has to be hammered thinner.
Will upload vid of process later or tom.
There have been three ore smelters at Namtu. The first was destroyed in WWII while the second was used until the early 2000s when replaced with a new facility. Here #13 shunts hoppers in the upper yard of the second smelter. Although disused this huge facility remains complete and is fascinating to explore.
20th January 2015
I'm not sure, but I think it's smelt milt, which is the semen sac of the smelt. I had smelt milt tempura at a restaurant and it was amazing.
File name: 08_02_002699
Box label: Public buildings: A-C
Title: "Fold up the banners! Smelt the Guns!"… One of eight scenes from the Cyclorama - The Battle of Gettysburg by Paul Philippoteaux
Alternative title: Photograph of Cyclorama painting
Creator/Contributor: Philippoteaux, Paul, b. 1846; Allen & Rowell (artist; photographer)
Date issued:
Date created: 1884 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print : albumen ; 4 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Genre: Albumen prints; Cabinet photographs
Subjects: Cyclorama (Boston, Mass.); Buildings; Paintings
Notes: Title and date from item, from additional material accompanying item, or from information provided by the Boston Public Library.
Provenance: Boston Public Library purchase June 24, 1976, Fixed Image
Statement of responsibility: Paul Philippoteaux [artist] ; Allen & Rowell, photographers, 25 Winter Street, Boston
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Rights status not evaluated.
Taken on 08 April 2014 in Namibia near Tsumeb-Old-Smelter (DSC_1582)
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A rainbow appears over the Paducah Site’s East End Smelter, a 21,000-square-foot complex used until the 1980s to smelt metal. Recovery Act workers used heavy equipment to demolish the smelter in September 2010, a year ahead of schedule and $10 million under budget.
In the small, unincorporated town of Ripley, Michigan, just across the Portage Lake Canal from it's more populous neighbor, Houghton, stand the remains of the Quincy Smelter.
The smelter is the only extant facility of its type in the Lake Superior region. It was operated from 1898 to 1971, its use trailing off in its later years. From '67 on, it was used for melting scrap copper, but in its heyday, it processed millions of tons of copper ore from the Quincy mines further northeast along the peninsula.
The Mineral Range and Copper Range railroads served the site, and the tracks alongside the buildings are some of a very few remaining lengths of track of those railroads. An abandoned locomotive and tender remain on the grounds; I'd love to know more about them.
Wallaroo, Wallaroo's smelting works were constructed in 1861 by the owners of the Wallaroo Mine to process the ore from there and from the Moonta Mine. The smelting works were at one time the largest smelter outside of Swansea in Wales. Initially using the reverberatory method of smelting, over time the smelter adopted newer processes and remained at the forefront of smelting techniques. Originally the mines had exported pure copper ore but following the opening of the smelters began exporting ingots of a partially refined copper. In the latter years of the smelters' history pure copper, as well as gold, silver and lead were smelted on site. The mines and smelters were finally closed in 1923, and the works were almost completely demolished to recoup as much money as possible for the shareholders. The original chimney for the works, known as the Hughes Stack, was retained as over the years it had become a mark for shipping. It is now heritage listed. Hundreds of miners and workers from the mines left Wallaroo. Many stayed, however, and found employment in the port and agricultural sectors.
www.minerals.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/11...
Canon EOS 30D, efs 18-55, raw, hdr, aeb
2009
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This area is now heritage listed.
Chillagoe was the smelting centre for the surrounding region from about 1890 to about 1940. The site processed ores from numerous small mines within a radius of 50 to 150 km, mainy for lead and copper with some silver and small amounts of gold. The geology typically consists of volcanic massive sulfide ores – often small in size but containing rich grades and many deposits spread across the region.
And today we prove the possibility of taking an excellent photograph with an inexpensive camera....
Took this photo by pointing my camera out my hotel window in Houghton on the prettiest fall weekend I remember, in late September of 1990. The Keweenaw National Park was not "real" at this time but while we were in the vicinity we had some contact with the efforts which would create it.
The wreck of a building complex across the Portage River was the Quincy Copper Smelter in Ripley--it still stands, more or less, and folks still hope to restore it. That would be worthwhile, but I'll believe it when it happens. Like Cliffs Shaft Mine and Painesdale's Champion, these buildings were last fully active in 1967, but have not stood up nearly so well.
The ship in the foreground is Ranger III--transportation to Isle Royale National Park--and the buildings in the foreground are a part of that truly remote park.
I was in town for a meeting of the South Shore Special Interest Group (DSS&A SIG) of the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, which was just forming at the time (the SIG, not the Society). We spent the weekend touring mining locations, looking over old rolling stock, and sharing stories. A good time.
This photo has often been mistaken for a model railroad picture. Nope: A photo from real life.
Camera: Minolta Freedom 100
These smelting pots were used in the processing of copper for lightning rods. This one is in the January section of the rock garden around the pond.
KAP at the Quincy Smelter in Ripley, MI (near Hancock) on the Portage Waterway. The smelter complex is unique in the country and, perhaps, the world in the number and types of 19th and early 20th century buildings and landscape features that survive. The smelter operated for decades, processing the copper ore mined throughout the area from deep underground. It eventually closed in 1971 and is now being rehabilitated as a part of the nearby Keweenaw National Historic Park.
Photo taken from a camera suspended from a kite - kite aerial photography, or KAP for short
Following a call from someone who'd witnessed dead fish along Gulliver Creek in Milton, we drove out to the Creek to have a look, on March 30, 2012. What we found were a few schools of Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax), swimming upstream. What an awe-inspiring sight! At this time of year, these silvery fish swim from Neponset Estuary into less salty contributing creeks, to lay eggs at night. This occurs each spring, around this time. // Smelt populations have declined drastically over the years, due to water pollution and the construction of dams along their migration routes. Thus, the sight of hundreds of these migratory fish swimming up a Neponset stream is heartening! However, it appears that the smelt can't get past the point at which the stream has been enclosed in a tunnel under the road. If that culvert were modified and fish could get past, they could reach more habitat for spawning, upstream. The more smelt that successfully hatch from eggs, the better! // The dead fish along the edge of the brook may have been killed by raccoons searching out the female, egg-laden smelt, and letting go of the male fish, according to Brad Chase. PHOTO BY TOM PALMER. Learn more about the Neponset River Watershed and how you can help to protect it: www.neponset.org.
The ore was stock piled at the bottom of the hill. As it was needed, it was moved into a drying and calcining process.
Submitted by: fatma demir
Country: Turkey
Organisation: yok
Category: Amateur
Caption: smelter
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Photo uploaded from the #EyeCareEverywhere Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2018
The Driver of the pilot exchanges pleasantries with British Rail Supervisor Jack Hyde, the picture was taken on the Grid sidings of Commonwealth Smelting at Hallen Marsh. Jack was one of the Bristol area freight supervisors, a great bloke to work with, and with many tales to tell. 26/1/82
There's only one beach like this on the Oregon Coast. At Smelt Sands, the steep gradient of the beach makes for pounding surf, even when the ocean is fairly calm. The beach itself is a gravel comprised of rock, shell, wood, and other crushed matter the sea has continuously tumbled for eons. I knelt down to get this shot and almost a week later I still have a nasty scrape on my knee from the gravel. Not a place you want to face plant.
Langley, near Hexham, Northumberland. Remains of the flue that carried the fumes from the smelter in Langley village are visible in the field here too. There's a detailed history of the smelter and the remains of the complex here
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. :)
Great smelter smokestack and street scene at Mount Isa, Queensland in 1983.
This was during my trip across northern Australia to Brisbane.
Looking up Marian Street at Camooweal Street.
On the left is Goodyear Tire and Mercedes Benz dealer. One block up is the Mount Isa Hotel.
When we visited, we weren't sure the line would be open. There had been talk of closing the smelter due to the massive pollution. The workers village had to be moved because of the pollution, and now (2017) the rail line is closed and abandoned due to a thousand year rain washing out the whole line. The smelter is reportedly using trucks.
Leftovers from the time this was the smelter for the United Verde Copper Company. A new company here is re-refining the old slag pile since new technologies can recover so much more than when this one first opened. The Spanish style building at lower right is the terminal for the Verde Canyon Railroad.
(best veiwed LARGE)
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and then I go for a ride
'Til I get to the bottom and I see you again, yeh, yeh yeh
Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast, but I'm miles above you
Tell me, tell me tell me, c'mon tell me the answer
Welll you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Now Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter, yeah ...
The Beatles