Sentence examples for old smelter from inspiring English sources

Acres of tailings -- 50-foot tall hills of lead-rich mining wastes -- surround the old smelter and abut residential neighborhoods.

One of the largest is an EPA cleanup in Omaha, Neb., that has removed soil from the yards of more than 12,000 homes contaminated by an old smelter's lead emissions.

The Kern station is in a old residential neighborhood approximately 2 km north-west of Tillman and 2 km east from the old smelter.

The ruined brickwork of old smelters dots the canyons.

In some hotspots - downwind from old smelters, or where miners dumped their spoils - it can be as high as 3%.

"A comprehensive review found that the 50-year-old smelter has no prospect of becoming financially viable," the company said on Tuesday.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Alcoa said the 50-year-old smelter had "no prospect of becoming financially viable" and would close in August, affecting about 500 employees.

Then there's the toxic legacy from an old lead smelter that operated on the eastern portion of the housing project in the 50s and 60s.

The last major Silverton mine closed in 1991, and the old Durango smelter and mill, which processed uranium from the 1940s through the '60s, have also shut down.

An old tin smelter across Galveston Bay, for example, once dumped its waste into a channel that directly flowed into the estuary, Ward says.

In comparison, exposure of the screened children in the North of France region was mainly linked to the old Metaleurop smelter which represented 42% of all screened cases.