For most of the history of industrial electronics, solder has been pretty boring. Mix some lead with a little tin, figure out how to wrap it around a thread of rosin, and that’s pretty much it.

Nearly 20 years after an EPA project manager told state and federal health officials about a long-demolished lead smelter that once operated on the site of a public housing complex and elementary ...

Once the froth is skimmed off and dried, it’s about 80% pure lead sulfide and ready for smelting. The Bunker Hill Mine used to have the largest lead smelter in the world, but that closed in 1982 ...

The reversed reverb technique is a great pre-effect for vocals and other lead instruments, and although we can get an ...

According to [Seegers], the smelter is more sustainable and uses less energy than the normal procedure which he worked with during an internship. The lens was also made manually by cutting into a ...

Port Pirie is home to one of the largest lead and multi-metal smelters in the world, resulting in historical and ongoing lead contamination in the community. Infants and children are particularly ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An aluminum company has singled out northeastern Kentucky as its preferred site for a new aluminum ...

The contract signed between CNCEC and BFI Group - the core investor in the Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria - is the first step towards reviving the dormant smelter, which has been plagued by ...

Freeport McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) -2.3% in Monday's trading after saying a fire at the sulphuric acid unit at its new Manyar ...

Freeport’s Indonesian subsidiary has temporarily suspended operations at its copper smelter after a fire last week damaged infrastructure used to produce sulphuric acid, the US metals producer ...

A fire ripped through a smelter in Indonesia on Monday, accompanied by two loud explosions. Footage shows the blaze consuming the single-line copper concentrate processing plant at around 5:45 pm ...

Chinese copper smelters are facing pressure to rein in an expansion that’s pounding the industry’s profitability. The viability of plants across the globe may be at stake. The top consumer of ...