smelter
IPA: smˈɛɫtɝ
noun
- A person employed to do smelting.
- A machine used to smelt metal.
- A place where smelting is done.
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Examples of "smelter" in Sentences
- Pirdop copper smelter and refinery.
- No smelter was ever built in the Yukon.
- No smelter was included in the facility.
- The complex includes a mine and a smelter.
- Development included a smelter and a townsite.
- These processes were then repeated at the smelter.
- A major aluminium smelter is located in Gladstone.
- Most of this metal is refined in the smelters near the mines.
- Muntok is a tin smelter town and many people work in the smelter.
- Environmentalists remain hostile, but less to the smelter than to the dams.
- The smelter is the biggest private investment in the country since Mozambique achieved its independence from Portugal in 1975.
- Galland said the smelter was a major event in the development of economic and commercial ties between France and South Africa.
- The air permit battle is just the latest chapter in the long, controversial history of the Asarco smelter, which is currently owned by a Mexican company.
- Iyer Sundar Raj, a spokesman for the Tuticorin smelter, told Dow Jones Newswires that since smelting is a process-based industry, shutting down of operations will take time.
- Planned maintenance activities in the quarter included a 32 day shutdown of the KIVCET lead smelter, which is scheduled every three years, and a 14 day shutdown of one of the two zinc roasters.
- Asarco, of Tucson, Ariz., hasn't operated the smelter, which is more than 100 years old, since 2001, but has wrangled with federal and state regulators about cleaning up of the site for several years.
- It was set to arrive in Japan this week, where the concentrate would go to Mitsubishi's Onahama smelter, which is located in the Fukushima prefecture and was shuttered after the earthquake and tsunami.
- In the case of the Tuticorin smelter, news agency Press Trust of India said the high court ordered closure of the plant as it was within 25 kilometers of an ecologically fragile area and as the company failed to develop a green belt with a width of 250 meters around the plant.