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Having saved millions of dollars cleaning up and tearing down an old smelter in September 2010, Recovery Act workers at the Paducah Site are moving on to demolish other closed facilities by September 2011.
Wallaroo Smelters operated 1861-1923. The Copper Store was built in 1906 and partly demolished in 1930. Wallaroo South Australia
Butte And Boston Smelting Plant At Great Falls, Mont.
Image taken from p 51 of Western Mining World, Souvenir Edition, Vol. IV, No. 68.
Unique ID: mze-publ1904 p 51
Type: Serial
Contributors: Western Mining World Co.; Chas Heilbronner Co.; Lyman A. Sisley, Ed.
Date Digital: June 2010
Date Original: 1896
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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Having saved millions of dollars cleaning up and tearing down an old smelter in September 2010, Recovery Act workers at the Paducah Site are moving on to demolish other closed facilities by September 2011.
Smelt Mill Bay | Смелт Милл Бей, 30-04-2017.
North Down Coastal Path (English)
My North Down Coastal Path set in my Let's Go For a Walk collection
The girls were such good sports! And in the end we all had glowing, clean skin... and smelt like a chocolate bar....
After a HOT Performance. This shot was taken backlit with no internal light, just smoldering wax from underneath
The ominous view of giant copper smelting furnaces chimneys is a distinctive characteristic of Caletones smelting plant located at the base of El Teniente mine. What seemed to be at first glance a geographic inconvenience of more than 1200 meters of altitude difference from the top to the base of the mine, the production process translates itself into a gravity miracle. The same way we admire the hydraulic marvel of Versailles water fountains, it seems like El Teniente was conceived to escalate naturally millions of tons of copper ores into the valley of Rancagua.
Our retina is suddenly frozen by metallic coronations where these smelting furnaces convert mineral dust into liquid metal. Like a “temple of fire”, mystical figures with shining armour walk about with long spears searching for the eye of the dragon. Temperature differences are experienced at every walking pace where giant converters spill through loop holes the precious metal. All together the forces of transmutation summoned of what initially give birth in a dark rock cavern. This alchemical relationship of rock, metal and fire brings us back to prehistoric times when the first signs of human intelligence projected the movement of our hands into the shape of a tool.
Needless to say some of this old miners, colloquially referred as “los viejos” or the “the old ones” have learned and earned to carry there weight around. Skilful artisans with the dexterity of a glass blower in the island of Murano, create a channel of inert material in order to optimize the fluidity of pure liquid copper. Time is a critical aspect with converter process where purity is finally measured by the craft of experienced miners.
Flying over Coniston outside Sudbury, Ontario, and the Coniston micro-smelter, one of the greenest such operations in North America. (Claimed to be carbon-neutral.)
Smelters and refineries at La Oroya, Peru. Photo taken in 1994 when Centromin operated this complex. In the foreground are workers' accommodations.
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, CA. Photo credit Steve Martarano/USFWS
This smelter design predates the coming of Europeans. The historian Basil Davidson has surmised that Africans invented iron smelting independently of other societies. Iron and steel from Europe became readily available and then iron smelting ceased here. Iron workers continued to make weapons and tools with imported materials and so they retained their important status.
As the rain was still coming down I was thankful that at least one part of the buildings here had a roof as it meant I could shelter and take photographs at the same time!
Day 9 of the Southern Upland Way blogged about at ramblingman.org.uk/southernuplandway/day9
One of the former smelting things.
Day 9 of the Southern Upland Way blogged about at ramblingman.org.uk/southernuplandway/day9
I think this was an aluminum smelter? I can't remember.. up in Gove. We'd anchor here in the bay when coming in to town for some R&R...
If necessary, fences may be temporarily removed to help our crews access properties being cleaned up. If temporary fence removal is needed, our crews store the fence during cleanup and then reinstall it after the cleanup work is finished.
Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack
*** (added 1976 - Structure - #76000548)
Also known as Smeltertown Smokestack
NE of Salida at jct. of SR 150 and 152, Salida
Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Ohio-Colorado Smelting & Refining Co
Architectural Style: No Style Listed
Area of Significance: Industry, Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Owner: Local Gov't
Historic Function: Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function: Extractive Facility
Current Function: Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Museum
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