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Copper smelter, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia Electrolytic cells at an aluminum smelter in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France Smelting involves more than just melting the metal out of its ore. Most ores are the chemical compound of the metal and other elements, such as oxygen (as an oxide ), sulfur (as a sulfide ), or carbon and oxygen together (as a ...
This is an electrolytic process, so an aluminium smelter uses huge amounts of electric power; smelters tend to be located close to large power stations, often hydro-electric ones, in order to hold down costs and reduce the overall carbon footprint. Smelters are often located near ports, since many smelters use imported alumina.
This is a list of primary aluminium smelters in the world. Primary production is the process by which alumina is smelted to pure aluminum. [1] Secondary production is the process of recycling aluminum scrap into aluminum that can be used again. [2]
This is a List of countries by copper smelter production for 2020, figures are for primary copper production. [1] In 2020, world copper smelter production was 17.8 million tonnes. The top 10 countries accounted for 70% of the total production.
The Horne Smelter (French: Fonderie Horne) is an industrial complex in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. It is Canada's only copper smelter, [ 1 ] and the largest processor of metals from electronic scrap in North America.
Chinese firms control about 75% of Indonesia's nickel refining capacity, raising concern over supply chain control and environmental risks, Washington-based global security nonprofit C4ADS has ...
US production of aluminum, 1940–2014. Data from USGS. The aluminum industry in the United States in 2023 produced 860 thousand metric tons of aluminum from refined metal ore (primary production), at six smelters.
Bergsöe lead smelter outside Landskrona in southern Sweden extracts lead from scrap car batteries. Tara Mine; KCM in Plovdiv which has produced lead for over 60 years using a blast furnace and is now in the process of bringing a new 60 million euro smelter TSL furnace online in order to replace the ageing blast furnace.