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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a smelter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a facility or industrial plant where metal ores are melted and refined.
Example: "The company invested heavily in upgrading its smelter to improve efficiency and reduce emissions."
Alternatives: "a foundry" or "a metal refinery".
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"They also wanted to build a dam and a smelter on the island.
Alcan is closing a smelter in Quebec (though it is also opening another).
Alcoa, an aluminium-maker, wants to build a smelter outside Nuuk, the capital, driven by cheap Greenlandic hydropower.
The latest quarter included a charge of 4 cents a share to reduce operations at a smelter in Rockdale, Tex., a move that involved about 660 layoffs.
A trust for overseeing the cleanup of a smelter site in Omaha that spewed lead over 27 square miles of surrounding water and soil received $219 million.
Due to anti-trust regulations, the CFSI website will not list a smelter or refiner unless there are at least three validated smelters for a mineral.
China's zinc exports soared to more than 500,000 tonnes in 1997, after a smelter had to boost production to cover short positions on the London Metal Exchange.
A boy is shown walking towards his clapboard house over which looms a smelter chimney belching out fumes into a cobalt blue sky.
Copper from very dilute solutions was formerly recovered by cementation on scrap iron; this produced an intermediate product that was usually returned to a smelter.
So it is nice to know that if a smelter cleans up its act, the impact can be felt relatively quickly.
In 2005, the bank – which is owned by EU member states – loaned Mopani Copper Mines $50m£30m0m) for the renovation of a smelter to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions.
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