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Alcoa to close Australian smelter and mills - Yahoo!

February 17, 2014, 6:27 PM SYDNEY (AP) — Aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. will permanently close an Australian smelter and two rolling mills because they were not financially sustainable, affecting almost...

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Alcoa to Close Aluminum Smelter and Two Rolling Mills in Australia

The company "said it will close its Point Henry aluminium smelter and two rolling mills in Australia, underscoring the dire market conditions facing producers amid a flood of new Chinese capacity,"...

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Lowlands cleanup - Washington State Department of Ecology

The cleanup site is divided into Uplands (residential) and Lowlands cleanup areas. The two areas are on different cleanup schedules. Removal of contamination is planned for A1 and A2. Contaminated material will be excavated and transported offsite for disposal at an approved facility. Capping of contamination is planned for areas B1-B3, C4 ...

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Smelter Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

smelter: [noun] one that smelts:. a worker who smelts ore. an owner or operator of a smeltery. an establishment for smelting.

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Aurubis to build secondary smelter in Georgia - Recycling Today

November 10, 2021. Aurubis AG, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, has announced that it will invest $346.5 million, or 300 million euros, to build its first secondary smelter in the U.S. Construction is scheduled to begin at the site in Augusta, Georgia, during the summer of 2022, and commissioning is expected to begin in the first half of 2024.

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Jones Mills Smelter Near Magnet Cove, Arkansas | The Diggings™

The Jones Mills Smelter is near Magnet Cove, Arkansas. Historically the site has been part of the Magnet Cove Mining District. The Jones Mills Smelter is a processing plant. The Ouachita Mountains of the Interior Highlands characterize the geomorphology of the surrounding area. Site identification and general characteristics.

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Utah History Encyclopedia - Utah Education Network

During the war years many women worked in the mine, mills, and smelter. In 1944 the construction of its own power plant rendered Kennecott independent of outside sources for electrical power. ... Kennecott Utah Copper began 1988 with the completion of a peripheral tailing discharge system at the tailings pond near Magna, and the start-up of ...

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Smeltery Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

The meaning of SMELTER is one that smelts. Recent Examples on the Web Gas, however, remains the key fuel for many of its processes and cannot be replaced in the short term, including for some of the work at its Hamburg smelter where more than 2,000 workers produce wires, cathodes and precious metals. — Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 10 July 2022 Totten Mine is part of the company's century-long ...

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Chile's Codelco says it will close Ventanas smelter | Nasdaq

The board of Chilean state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, agreed on Friday to start a process to close its troubled Ventanas smelter, the company said in a statement.

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Alcoa Closing Aluminum Smelter, Mills | Manufacturing

Alcoa Closing Aluminum Smelter, Mills. NEW YORK (AP) — Alcoa Inc. said Monday that it will close an aluminum smelter and two mills in Australia by the end of the year. The company said it has been studying options for a 50-year-old smelter in Geelong, Victoria, for two years and will close it in August. The smelter has about 500 workers.

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Mill and Smelter Methods of Sampling - University of Arizona

The idea seems prevalent among men operating small properties in the mining districts of Arizona that the smelters and custom mills do, in many cases, give false returns on ores that are sent in for smelting or treatment. With a view to ascertaining the facts "of the case, the Arizona State Bureau of Mines has conducted an investigation and has found that it would be utterly impractical for ...

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Anaconda Montana - Western Mining History

Anaconda was established in 1883 by Marcus Daly, one of the three "Copper Kings" of Butte, Montana, as a site for a new smelter to treat ores from his Anaconda mine. The town was originally to be called Copperopolis but that name was already in use by another Montana town so the name Anaconda was settled on. In 1891, Anaconda lost a political ...

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Century Aluminium Company - Products & Plants - Sebree, KY

The facility is 100-percent owned and operated through Century Aluminum. Sebree is located in Henderson County, Kentucky, perfectly situated in the middle of the Midwestern market. It is an ideal location to conduct business as a large majority of the smelter's customers are within a 600-mile region. Since it began operations in 1973, more ...

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The Lost Town of Proctor - Bryson City, North Carolina - Atlas Obscura

The Valley Trail near Proctor, one of the remote section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Brian Stansberry/cc by 3.0 Remains of the drying kiln at the Ritter Mill site.

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Top 10 Largest Aluminium Smelters In The World | UAE News - Gulf Business

The GCC is expected to account for 13 per cent of the world's total aluminium production by the end of 2013, with total output estimated to reach five million tonnes per year by 2014.

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Alcoa Permanently Closing Point Henry Smelter | E & MJ

March 17, 2014| Leading Developments Alcoa announced on February 17 that it will permanently close its Point Henry aluminum smelter and two rolling mills in Australia. The smelter and an adjacent rolling mill are located in Geelong, Victoria. A second mill and a recycling facility are located in Yennora, New South Wales.

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Hecla Montana - Western Mining History

The Hecla district was a solid producer for almost two decades but the silver panic of 1893 was the beginning of the end. The sudden drop of silver prices combined with the decline of the availability of high-grade ore in the mines resulted in closure of some of the best producers during the 1890s. In 1900 the smelter at Glendale shut down.

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Encampment, Wyoming: Copper, Lumber and Rendezvous

The Grand Encampment Museum is located at 807 Barnett in Encampment. Tramway towers stand on the grounds with ore buckets hanging from cables to show how copper ore was transported 16 miles from the mountain mines to the smelter in Encampment before the S&E Railroad arrived. A recent museum project is restoration of the original caboose of the S&E.

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Smelter's closure is end of an era in Herculaneum

Doe Run Co. smelter to close this week. "Our legacy is the proud history of over 100 years of smelting activities here," said Gary Hughes, general manager of Doe Run's smelting division.

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Wind turbines could power Scottish smelter and steel plants

GFG Alliance propose a wind farm in the Scottish Highlands to power aluminium smelter plant in Fort William and a steel plant in Motherwell. Up to 54 new wind turbines are set to be installed in ...

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Foundries that supply the automotive sector to close

July 8, 2020. Grede Holdings LLC, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, plans to close its foundry in Columbiana, Alabama, according to an article on the Foundry Management & Technology website that cites a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice that was filed June 9 with the Alabama Department of Commerce. According ...

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Gold Mill Ruins - Historic Gold Mines in Aruba

Arikok national park houses the remains of historic gold mines at Miralamar. In addition there are two gold mills on island. On the northern coast sits the abandoned Bushiribana gold mill that once processed ore from mines in the nearby hills during Aruba's gold rush of the nineteenth century. The second site, the Balashi Gold Mill, was built ...

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One in critical condition after police shooting in mall near Charlotte

The shooting happened before 1 p.m. on the mall's campus, located on Concord Mills Boulevard. The mall went into lockdown and police surrounded the mall after the shooting. McGhee said someone called 911 from the mall to report that three males stole their credit cards. The caller gave a description of the three.

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Century Aluminum idling Hawesville smelter - Yahoo! News

Century Aluminum, the county's second-largest employer, announced that it plans to shut the Hawesville smelter, which it calls "our largest U.S. smelter and the largest producer of high purity primary aluminum in North America," for nine to 12 months starting the week of Aug. 5. Roberts said the company gave him no assurances that the plant ...

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Search for Superfund Sites Where You Live | US EPA

National Priorities List and Superfund Alternative Approach Sites. Search for sites proposed to, currently on, and deleted from Superfund's National Priorities List (NPL) as well as sites being addressed under the Superfund Alternative Approach (SAA). Select a State. After selecting a state, click Go to display sites in that state. Show entries.

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Alcoa -- Australia

Alcoa of Australia Ltd operates one of the world's largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting system and supports approximately 4,275 direct jobs, predominantly in regional Australia. Our operations consist of two bauxite mines, three alumina refineries and two dedicated port facilities in Western Australia and Portland Aluminium smelter in Victoria.

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Alcoa to close Australian smelter and mills - BBC News

Alcoa's aluminium smelter at Point Henry will be closed this year Aluminium giant Alcoa plans to close down a smelter and two mills in Australia by the end of the year, affecting nearly 1,000 jobs.

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Steel Mill Workers - Mesothelioma & Asbestos Exposure Risks

Foseco: Foseco made several asbestos products that it sold to foundries and steel mills, including ladle liners, furnace linings, hot top insulation, insulating boards and coatings. GAF Corp.: Asbestos products made by GAF were used in steel mills, including coatings, insulating cement, pipe coverings and boiler insulation. Guard-Line Inc.: Asbestos gloves used by steel mill workers were made ...

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Smelter - definition of smelter by The Free Dictionary

Define smelter. smelter synonyms, smelter pronunciation, smelter translation, English dictionary definition of smelter. n. 1. a. An apparatus for smelting. b. also smelt·er·y pl. smelt·er·ies An establishment for smelting. ... Near the iron-mine, which is on the mainland, is a smelter, and on the eastern shore of Anoroc, a well equipped ...

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Alcoa to shed 1,000 jobs with shutdown of Point Henry smelter and mills ...

Feb 18, 2014It said two rolling mills, one adjacent to the Point Henry smelter and the other in Yennora, New South Wales, would close by the end of the year, incurring a further 480 job losses.

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Alcoa to close Australian smelter and mills - Yahoo!

Alcoa to close Australian smelter and mills February 17, 2014, 3:27 PM SYDNEY (AP) — Aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. will permanently close an Australian smelter and two rolling mills because they were...

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Highland Landscape Supply | Gravel & Decorative Gravel

5860 Wilson Mills Road Highland Heights, OH 44143 440-442-9093 info@highlandlandscapesupply

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Silver City, New Mexico Tour - Mining History Association

The Hurley smelter was modernized in 1985 to meet the pollution control requirements of the Clean Air Act. It closed in 2002. Both the Hurley concentrator and smelter were demolished in the mid-2000's and the sites are being reclaimed by FMCG. After a temporary shut-down in 2008, FMCG resumed production in 2011.

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Hillside Aluminium - South32

For more than 20 years we have played a key part in South Africa's aluminium industry. Our Hillside Aluminium smelter in Richards Bay, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal about 180 kilometres north of Durban, produces high-quality, primary aluminium for export markets. To support the development of the downstream aluminium industry in South ...

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Alcoa closing aluminum smelter, mills in Australia - Yahoo!

NEW YORK (AP) -- Alcoa Inc. said Monday that it will close an aluminum smelter and two mills in Australia by the end of the year. The company said it has been studying options for a 50-year-old ...

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Smelter Putting Arsenic in The Air Is Set to Close

The Asarco Copper Smelter, the nation's biggest source of arsenic pollution, will close by June 1985 because of losses caused by low copper prices and the high cost of environmental protection ...

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Alcoa Australia announces smelter closure, sacking 1,000 workers

would close its Point Henry smelter, in Geelong, ... Two rolling mills in Geelong and western Sydney will also be shut down before the end of the year, directly destroying a total of 980 jobs and

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Turbines would power Lochaber Smelter and Dalzell plant

The Lochaber Smelter could be used for making car components in the future The owners of the UK's last aluminium smelter plans to install up to 54 wind turbines at a site in the Highlands.

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Michigan Smelter - Pasty

Michigan Smelter on Coles Creek. From an early postcard. The Michigan Smelting Company was created in 1903 to handle the concentrate from the Atlantic,Trimountain, Champion, Mohawk, Wolverine, and Michigan stamp mills. The location was a steep hillside two miles west of Houghton near Coles Creek. The smelter was capable of producing 90 million ...

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Home - Aluminium Bahrain (Alba)

Alba is the world's largest aluminium smelter ex-China with a production of more than 1.548 million metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) (2020). Company. Company. Corporate Profile ... are used in rolling mills for manufacturing aluminium foil and sheet products, amongst many other end-applications including manufacturing automotive products and ...

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