Lead Smelting and Refining, With Some Notes on Lead Mining

It is a fact, not generally known, that the American Smelting and Refining Company is now preparing to introduce the Huntington-Heberlein process in all its plants, this action...

In July, 1901, the El Paso, Texas, plant of the Consolidated Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company[52] was almost completely destroyed by fire. The power plant, blast-furnac...

The rectangular silver-lead blast furnace developed in the Rocky Mountains has an area of 42 × 120 to 48 × 160 in. at the tuyeres; 54 × 132 to 84 × 200 in. at the top; and hight...

Statistics of lead production are of value in two directions: (1) in showing the relative proportion of the kinds of lead produced; and (2) in showing the sources from which pro...

In presenting this account of the Parkes process of desilverizing and refining lead bullion no originality is claimed, but I hope that a description of the process as carried ou...

In view of the fact that the Scotch hearth in its improved form is now coming to the front again to some extent in lead smelting, it may prove interesting to give a brief accoun...

It is well known that, owing to the intimate mixture of the constituents of the Broken Hill sulphide ores, a great deal of crushing and grinding is required to detach the partic...

Only a few years ago smelting companies began to recognize the advantage of large chambers for collecting flue dust and condensing fumes. The object is threefold: First, profit;...

A note in the communication from S. E. Bretherton on “Pyritic Smelting and Hot Blast,” published in the _Engineering and Mining Journal_ of April 13, 1901, refers to a subject o...

It is well known that, in order to obtain a proper fusion in lead and copper ore-smelting, it is not only advantageous, but often indispensable, that a suitable proportion of sl...