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The Alcoa Wenatchee Works in Eastern Washington State was "taken behind the woodshed" last year for dumping too many pollutants into the Columbia River. www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2015/103.html
By the end of the year, the people running the Alcoa smelter suddenly decided to idle (shut down) the plant because it was "losing money due to low aluminum demand worldwide."
www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2015/nov/03/local-economy-cou...
www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_wenatchee/en/info_page/home.asp
This will be a huge blow to the local economy, but hey, that's the way it goes...
on the moors between Swaledale & Arkengarthdale, the remains of old industry from the 1800's still exist. In this area lead was mined and smelted.
Copper Cliff Smelter. I worked in this very smelter as a young man, before going off to university, In fact, the copper and nickel mining industry has had a profound and indelible impact on the ecology of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, and, as such, has informed my landscape photography, the majority of which has been photographed in and around the City of Greater Sudbury.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Sudbury
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The ancient smelter in Újmassa, built in 1813, is one of Hungary's most important industrial monuments and a rarity in Europe.
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This view of the smelter gives you some context from where I was photographing from. The Large plume started as I was walking back. I had already changed lens, otherwise I would have gone in close. It didn't last too long.
Port Pirie, South Australia.
The morning ore train crew starts the slow speed process of dumping their raw copper ore into the shed outside the smelter in Hayden. From here the ore will go via conveyor belt to the smelter that it fairly well hidden in the hill side behind me. The crew will dump their train and head back to Hayden yard where the train will then sit for about 6 hours before going back to the mine for another load of precious metals.
The San Manuel Arizona Railroad consisted of two segments: the 29-mile common carrier main line between Hayden and San Manuel, Arizona, and an eight-mile private mine spur linking the mines with the smelter at San Manuel.
On November 2, 1968, SMA RS-3 #2 is crossing Smelter Wash on the mine spur with a train of copper ore for the smelter. This spur has since been torn up, along with most of the old mine structures. Likewise, the smelter has been dismantled. At the present time, there are no train movements on the SMA line to Hayden. Photo by Joe McMillan.
That's a cholla cactus at the right; something you definitely want to avoid while walking in the desert,
Rio Grande Maintenance of Way forces were busy dumping smelter slag ballast near Springville, Utah the morning of July 22, 1988.
Un plan d’eau rouge/rosé, c’est soit un repaire à flamants roses, soit le signe de produits résiduaires d’une production d’aluminium. comme ici en Australie. Aujourd’hui c’est le Jour du dépassement pour l’année 2021. Un jalon qui n’a rien de réjouissant : à partir de 20h21 heure de Paris, on considère que l’humanité a consommé plus de ressources que la planète peut produire en une année… Autrement dit, on vit à crédit pour le reste de l’année… ! Depuis la Station, on en voit les conséquences en direct avec les phénomènes météo extrêmes comme les ouragans et les feux de forêts XXL, ou en décalé en comparant avec les missions précédentes – recul des glaciers, disparition de morceaux de forêts, fleuves qui changent de couleur à cause des sédiments issus de l’érosion, etc. Ou encore, en amont des effets du changement climatique, on voit des infrastructures qu’on devine néfastes pour l’environnement. Deux exemples, parmi de très nombreux et qu’on retrouve dans quasiment toutes les régions du monde, pour répondre à une question qu’on nous pose souvent : oui, on en voit.
A red lake implies flamingos... or aluminium smelting. Here in Queensland, Australia, it is the latter. The red mud is a waste product of producing aluminium. Today is Earth overshoot day, the moment humankind uses more resources than the Earth has to offer. The calculations are precise (based on scientific data from satellites amongst others): at 20:21 CEST humans will have used more resources available on Earth than can be replenished in a year. From tonight we will be running on a deficit. We need our planet to survive and prosper but we also need to replenish supplies and head to a circular economy. Two symbols of using Earth's resources visible from space: large open-pit coal mining and the red mud of aluminium smelting.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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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.
The facility uses the RLE process for zinc production. Hobart’s key products are SHG zinc, die cast alloys (branded ‘EZDA’) and CGG (continuous galvanising grade) alloys. In addition, the site also makes by-products of cadmium, copper sulphate, paragoethite, lead sulphate, leach concentrate, gypsum and sulphuric acid.
CBRY OT-1 is leaving the smelter at Hayden five "back hauls" ahead of the usual empty ore cars to go back to Ray. CBRY 505 is former C&O GP39 #3916 delivered in July 1969 and a long way from it's first owner's rails on the east coast.
March 27, 2017
The Smelt Monument is a monument in Castletown, Isle of Man built to commemorate the life of Cornelius Smelt, the first royally appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, who died in 1832.
Work on the monument began in 1836, and ceased the following year. It was built to a design by John Welch at a cost of £180.
It is a column of the Grecian Doric Order built from locally sourced stone, the work being undertaken by John Thomas. It was listed as a Registered Building of the Isle of Man in 1984.
For more photographs of the Isle of Man please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Isle-of-Man
The new smelter at Namtu was constructed after the Second World War during which the old smelter was destroyed. It processed lead, silver, zinc and copper from the Bawdwin mines but has been out of use for some time. It was suggested that it would reopen in 2012 but I have not heard anything of this since my visit.
The new smelter at Namtu was constructed after the Second World War during which the old smelter was destroyed. It processed lead, silver, zinc and copper from the Bawdwin mines but has been out of use for some time. It was suggested that it would reopen in 2012 but I have not heard anything of this since my visit.
The Day Dream Smelter, situated about 20 kilometres north-west of Broken Hill and north-east of Silverton, was established as a settlement following the discovery of rich silver-bearing ore in December 1882 and by 1884 there were some 400 to 500 people on the field. The Day Dream mine by 1884 had become important. It raised 96,000 tons of ore before it floated into a company.
The Day Dream Smelter was built by the Barrier Ranges Association which was formed in the early days of the field to take over mines, work them, establish smelters and otherwise develop the field.
The Day Dream Smelter was opened in 1885. It had a 25-ton and a 40-ton water-jacket furnace. The Day Dream mine proved short lived and in April 1886, after only 10 months of operation, the smelter was closed down as there was not sufficient ore to keep it going. Sometime soon afterward during 1886-87 the smelters were re-opened to treat the first production from the Broken Hill Mine, some 1,500 tons of ore, as the Broken Hill mine had not then started its own furnaces.
By the end of 1888 the Day Dream Settlement was almost abandoned and the smelters closed forever. Nothing remains of the settlement. All the machinery of the smelter was removed and all the salvageable material of the smelter buildings - timber and galvanised iron has long since gone.
What remains of the smelter is interesting and very strongly evocative. Standing in dramatic isolation on a round hill in the arid Barrier Range, it remains a prominent reminder of the intense activity and high expectations which were later eclipsed by the wealth of the lode at Broken Hill.
In 1980 the Heritage Council visited the site during its visit to Broken Hill. Subsequently, the Barrier Environment Group nominated Day Dream Smelter for a Permanent Conservation Order. On the 11th of February 1983 a Permanent Conservation order was placed over the smelter. It was transferred to the State Heritage Register on the 2nd of April 1999.
Source: New South Wales Heritage Register.
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.
The facility uses the RLE process for zinc production. Hobart’s key products are SHG zinc, die cast alloys (branded ‘EZDA’) and CGG (continuous galvanising grade) alloys. In addition, the site also makes by-products of cadmium, copper sulphate, paragoethite, lead sulphate, leach concentrate, gypsum and sulphuric acid.
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.
The facility uses the RLE process for zinc production. Hobart’s key products are SHG zinc, die cast alloys (branded ‘EZDA’) and CGG (continuous galvanising grade) alloys. In addition, the site also makes by-products of cadmium, copper sulphate, paragoethite, lead sulphate, leach concentrate, gypsum and sulphuric acid.
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Base of a smelters stack at a former ore mining company whose smelter opened in 1907 and then closed in 1910. the town post office closed in 1919 and by 1921 the town had become a ghost town.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, handheld light producing device set to pink.
The BC Copper Company smelter began operation at Greenwood BC in 1901, servicing ore from the Mother Lode Mine and other mines in the area. By 1910 the boom had passed and Greenwood's population was 1,500. At the end of WWI, the demand for copper dropped, and by 1918 the copper market was dead and the smelter in Greenwood lay idle. The following year it closed down permanently. Unlike many of its late brethren, this smelter has left behind a few reminders of its heyday, the main one being this 210 foot tall smokestack. In its lifetime, however, the smelter made quite a stir, spawning the City of Greenwood, which grew to a population of over 3,000 at its peak, then as quickly imploded to as few as 200 citizens soon after the smelter closed. Greenwood was incorporated as a city in 1897 and remains a city - the smallest in Canada, both in population and area - now with a population of less than 700.
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.
The facility uses the RLE process for zinc production. Hobart’s key products are SHG zinc, die cast alloys (branded ‘EZDA’) and CGG (continuous galvanising grade) alloys. In addition, the site also makes by-products of cadmium, copper sulphate, paragoethite, lead sulphate, leach concentrate, gypsum and sulphuric acid.
A Scheduled Ancient Monument, Old Gang Lead Smelting Mill is one of best preserved lead mining complexes in the Pennines. Constructed in the 1840s, it replaced an earlier mill on the site. After 1885 production declined dramatically, but not before it had brought a level of prosperity to the area.
The Old Gang Lead Smelting Mill lies between Low Row and Langthwaite in Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, UK
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Old Gang Lead Smelting Mill is one of best preserved lead mining complexes in the Pennines. Constructed in the 1840s, it replaced an earlier mill on the site. After 1885 production declined dramatically, but not before it had brought a level of prosperity to the area.
When we visited it was a fine but bitterly cold day. You wonder how mean conditions would have been for those working here in the rain and cold, both above and below ground.
The Old Gang Lead Smelting Mill lies between Low Row and Langthwaite in Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, UK
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