Last Lead Smelter in U.S. to close.

ThunderStick · Dec 22, 2013

This on Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/2...-regulations-bans-force-switch-to-green-ammo/

WTF? Green Ammo???????

My next question is where is the lead going to come from to manufacture vehicle batteries and wheel weights????

So,, this may be another "feel good" tree hugger liberal fix the environment measure?

:wtf:

Boom Boom · Dec 22, 2013

Dupe, four or five times over.

Fox123 · Dec 22, 2013

Dupe Dupe Dupe.

and most commercial lead used is recycled material.

Melnic · Dec 22, 2013

I almost started hoarding bullets till I saw a press release from one of the bullet manufacturers. I think it was Sierra who said it would not affect them.

vin · Dec 22, 2013

Old news, and it's a very poorly researched article. The smelter made primary lead which is frankly too expensive for bullets.

Deep Creek Rock · Dec 22, 2013

That same smelter owns a facility in Peru. They can always import the lead, which alot of it probably already is. They got shut down for numerous violations, effecting the town they operate from.

Rattlesnake46319 · Dec 23, 2013

Here's the thread from the last time it came up. http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=136309

whistlersmother · Jun 23, 2017

Holy thread resurrection!

These guys were trying to build a new type of battery. Instead, they ended up with a new way of smelting that's a lot more environmentally friendly.

Granted, they used antimony sulfide, but I suspect lead sulfide would work just as well, but a higher temperature.

Essentially, they used molten semiconductor, antimony sulfide, as a layer in their molten metal battery. While this has sorta been done before in previous smelting operations, the new thing is that they also stacked your "normal" battery layer on top - NaCl, KCl, and Na2S which allowed the separation of the sulfur from the antimony. Complete screw-up from a battery standpoint, but maybe a revolution in the smelting of metal sulfides.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-method-producing-some-metals-0824

K31 · Jun 24, 2017

whistlersmother said:
Holy thread resurrection!

These guys were trying to build a new type of battery. Instead, they ended up with a new way of smelting that's a lot more environmentally friendly.

Granted, they used antimony sulfide, but I suspect lead sulfide would work just as well, but a higher temperature.

Essentially, they used molten semiconductor, antimony sulfide, as a layer in their molten metal battery. While this has sorta been done before in previous smelting operations, the new thing is that they also stacked your "normal" battery layer on top - NaCl, KCl, and Na2S which allowed the separation of the sulfur from the antimony. Complete screw-up from a battery standpoint, but maybe a revolution in the smelting of metal sulfides.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-method-producing-some-metals-0824

I call bullsh|t.

They claim they have "99.9 percent pure antimony at the bottom of their cell". Everyone here knows that's an impossible percentage of antimony.

Alan3413 · Jun 24, 2017

It's actually closer to 3%

BeoBill · Jun 24, 2017

But the process takes two weeks.

byf43 · Jun 24, 2017

Alan3413 said:
It's actually closer to 3%

Even when cut in half.

Matlack · Jun 24, 2017

And they had their smelting permit limits lifted.

newmuzzleloader · Jun 24, 2017

byf43 said:
Even when cut in half.

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