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Garfield Refining is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based refinery specializing in the purchase of precious metal, including gold, silver, platinum and palladium. The company was founded in 1892 and was originally called Eastern Smelting. [1] In 1928, it was purchased by the Garfield family.
The largest gold producer is the Fort Knox mine, a large open pit and cyanide leaching operation in the Fairbanks mining district, which in 2019 produced 200,263 gold equivalent ounces. [9] The Pogo (159,344 ounces) and Kensington (127,914 ounces) [ 10 ] gold mines and the Greens Creek polymetallic mine (56,625 ounces) accounted for the ...
Langeloth is a census-designated place in Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Langeloth has been assigned the ZIP code 15054. As of the 2010 census, the population was 717 residents. Langeloth began as a coal mining company town. Langeloth Metallurgical Company, now a unit of Centerra Gold, is the town's largest
Noranda had bought 19.9% of rival mining company Falconbridge in 1988, which was raised to a 58.4% stake in 2002. In 2004 China Minmetals was interested in buying Noranda, and completed negotiations with the Noranda board in October 2004 with a sale price of $6.7 billion, which caused the Canadian federal government to review its foreign investment policy.
Hopewell Furnace stove, 10-plate cooking model, with a lower firebox and upper oven for baking. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace.
Dents Run is an unincorporated community in Benezette Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has attracted attention from treasure hunters and the media as the reputed site of a lost shipment of gold.
A man found frozen in a Pennsylvania cave in 1977 has finally been identified, closing the book on a nearly 50-year-long mystery. The Berks County Coroner’s Office identified the remains of the ...
The Pine Grove Iron Works was a smelting facility in southcentral Pennsylvania during the Industrial Revolution.The works is notable for remaining structures that are historical visitor attractions of Pine Grove Furnace State Park, including the furnace stack of the Pine Grove Furnace.