The slag pile in Anaconda is a byproduct from the town’s copper smelting history, and is part of the town’s Superfund site. For over a half-century, companies have tried but often failed to ...

Work at the smelting centers hadn’t been very standardized before, but around 1140 BCE, the copper content of slag heaps from Timna and from sites in Faynan, 105km (65 miles) away, suddenly got ...

A study released on January 19, 2024, in the “Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China”presents a novel method for the recovery of copper, lead, and zinc from copper smelting slag ...

The slag is a by-product of the waste generated during pyrometallurgical extraction or the smelting of copper. It means the extraction and purification of copper from sulphide ore at very high ...

Newly identified remnants of copper smelting at a 7,000-year-old Serbian site fuel debate over ... Rehren’s group is now examining possible copper slag from sites in Turkey and Iran that date ...

Slag pile from copper smelting. (Reference image by Rob Bixby, Flickr.) A study by researchers from China’s Central South University introduces a new method for recovering copper, lead, and ...

Starting probably in 2025, the Anaconda Smelter Site’s Superfund cleanup and a contractor working for Atlantic Richfield will begin covering portions of the arsenic-bearing slag piles east of ...

The smelting process left behind slag covering roughly 195 acres, about the size of 147 football fields. EPA said the material would fill more than 160,000 52-foot-long coal cars if the slag was ...