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2 unusual facts about smelting


Clément Cycles

In September 1879, Clément built an iron smelter in Tulle, in the Limousin where there was a good supply of water power, but he did not have sufficient finance to make it viable and Tulle was too remote from Paris, so he had to sell the plant.

Mulegns

Around 600-500 BC, a copper mine and smelter were built in the Val Faller (Faller valley) near modern Mulegns.


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1889 College Football All-America Team

For many years, he was the President of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, a copper mining company in Flin Flon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Alma, Quebec

The area became an important industrial center during the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of a hydro-electrical dam on the Grande-Décharge River, a paper mill (Price) and an aluminum smelting plant (Alcan), all of which are still in activity today.

Amaveni

Today Amaveni's population is made up of people from different professional backgrounds; civil servants, workers from the heavy industries of Zimbabwe Iron and Smelting Company (ZIMASCO), Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO now NewZim Steel), Lancashire Steel, Sable Chemicals, Haggie Rand Zimbabwe, National Breweries among other industries.

Anaconda, British Columbia

Anaconda is a ghost town and former mining and smelting centre in the Boundary Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located west of the city of Grand Forks to the south of the confluence of Eholt and Boundary Creeks.

Angelburg

Charcoal works were set up in the forests, and in the dales, bloomeries and smithies were busy smelting and working iron.

Arthur Vivian

He left college in 1855, on his father's death, to manage the family's copper smelting and rolling works and colliery at Port Talbot.

Black Country Living Museum

The museum is close to the site where Thomas Dudley first mastered the technique of smelting iron with coal instead of wood charcoal and making iron enough for industrial use.

Bottom-blown oxygen converter

The Bottom-blown Oxygen Converter or BBOCTM is a smelting furnace developed by the staff at Britannia Refined Metals Limited (“BRM”), a British subsidiary of MIM Holdings Limited (which is now part of the Glencore Xstrata group of companies).

Chauncy Townsend

He developed extensive interests in coal mines in the Swansea area of Wales, as well as mining, smelting and refining copper and lead.

Clendenin J. Ryan

He and Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller were stockholders in the Enterprise Development Corporation, a closed end investment trust for the heirs of William Rockefeller and Thomas Fortune Ryan, Clendenin's entrepreneurial grandfather, who invested heavily in Copper Mining and ore smelting.

Copper Kings

While the cost of smelting the complex copper-bearing ore was high, after the American Civil War, investors like William Andrews Clark and Andrew Jackson Davis began to develop Butte's mines and erect mills to extract the silver and gold.

Deloro, Ontario

In 1915 the company changed its name to Deloro Smelting and Refining Company Limited after Dr. Haynes developed the first commercially produced stellite in the world, which was manufactured at the Deloro plant.

Faxon Atherton

# Francisco Fascon Atherton (b. 1857), married Jane Selby, daughter of Thomas Henry Selby, 13th mayor of San Francisco, California, who built the Selby Shot Tower in San Francisco and founded the Selby Smelting Works.

Gejiu

Coal for smelting is supplied to the city from nearby Kaiyuan to the north, located on the rail line to Kunming.

George McMurtry

George Cannon McMurtry (1867–1918), New Zealand scientist, smelting engineer and mining manager

Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum

The Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum is located on the former Holden Mining and Smelting Company facility on the western edge of the city of Aspen, Colorado, United States.

Humphrey Mackworth

This led Mackworth to begin smelting copper at Neath, but found himself in direct competition with Sir Edward Mansel, who owned coal mining in the neighbouring areas.

Isaac Wilkinson

Some time between 1721 and 1723, Wilkinson moved to Workington where he worked at the Little Clifton furnace which probably produced cast iron by smelting with coke.

Jakob Fugger

The expansion continued with the construction of smelting plants in Neusohl, Arnoldstein in Carinthia, Hohenkirchen in Thuringia and Moschnitz.

James Neilson

James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865), Scottish inventor of iron-smelting processes

James the Red Engine

In the film, James was briefly threatened by the evil Diesel 10 and almost pushed back into a smelting pit before being teleported out by Mr Conductor Junior (Michael E. Rodgers).

Kabwe

The name Kabwe or Kabwe-Ka Mukuba means 'ore' or 'smelting' but the European/Australian prospectors named it after a similar mine in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

Kaiser Ventures

The Journals of Ayn Rand include numerous items on the plant's daily routine, including both detailed technical information on the process of smelting and the terminology involved, for example: "Blast furnaces are usually named after women. The one at Kaiser's is named 'Bess' after Mrs. Kaiser and is referred to by the workers as 'Old Bess'".

Kazakhmys

The company's origins date back to 1930 when operations began at the Balkhash copper smelting complex in Kazakhstan.

Lufira River

The river was dammed in 1926 at Mwadingusha near Likasi to form Lake Tshangalele, a reservoir for a hydroelectric generator supplying power for copper smelting.

Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway

The smelting process required limestone, conveyed at first by horse and cart from the Cumbernauld area; and fireclay, available in the Gartsherrie and Garnkirk areas, for manufacturing refractory bricks for lining the kilns and withstanding high temperatures.

Nathaniel P. Hill

Accordingly, he spent a portion of 1865 and 1866 in Swansea, Wales and Freiberg, Saxony studying metallurgy, and returned to the United States with a perfected method of smelting.

National Tourist Routes in Norway

The nature is supplemented with smelting plants in Sauda and the zinc mines in Allmannajuvet.

Norwood, North Carolina

The Yadkin had already been developed in the prior decade by Alcoa to produce electricity for their smelting facility in Badin.

Old Stone Hotel

The Chicago-Galena Trail and the Sucker Trail, which went from St. Louis to the lead smelting operations in Wiota, Wisconsin.

Palmerton, Pennsylvania

In 1912, the New Jersey Zinc Company located a zinc smelting operation (what is now the West Plant) here, in order to take advantage of the anthracite coal being mined just north of Palmerton and the zinc mines in Franklin, New Jersey.

Portreath

In the 19th century, Portreath was, with Devoran on the south coast, one of the main ports for sending the copper ore mined in the Gwennap area to Swansea for smelting.

Saltford Brass Mill

This changed as processes improved and local copper smelting was replaced by supplies from Swansea.

The Aluminum Association

Members of the Association included the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) (Arthur Vining Davis), Reynolds Metals Company (Walter Hunt), and United Smelting & Aluminum (Milton Rosenthal).

Trewhiddle

This may predate the earliest known smelting of the metal (which requires extremely high temperatures) and has led to speculation that it may have been produced during a visit by Rudolf Erich Raspe to Happy-Union mine (at nearby Pentewan) in the late eighteenth century.

William Humfrey

According to Kiernan, Humfrey's lead-smelting furnace was far more efficient than the traditional boles, and its eventual widespread adoption enabled rapid expansion of the mining industry after 1570, and the export from England of large quantities of lead.


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