When was asarco built

Corpus Christi zinc smelter and refinery operations suspended indefinitely. Pima copper mine in Arizona acquired.

Encycle, Inc. Expansion of Ray mine completed. Underground operation at Mission mine announced. Guggenheim facility.

Guggenheim facilities. Enter your text here. Login to Asarco. Around the country, mines, concentrators, smelters, and refineries were being closed. Fifty employees are left to maintain the plant so it can be started up quickly.

Company officials pledge to start up again when economic conditions improve. The photograph was sent to Governor Richard Perry. Monika Published: April 13, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Filed Under: asarco , demolition , el paso , el paso smelter , environment , history , pollution , smoke stacks , timeline.

In slag fuming facilitators were built for the recovery of zinc from the slag produced by the lead furnaces, and in ASARCO built a foot smokestack to reduce ground-level concentrations of sulfur dioxide.

In the company built an foot stack, designed to help alleviate local air pollution. In , however, El Paso still had a higher concentration of lead in the air than any other city in Texas.

In December the El Paso City-County Health Department reported that the smelter had emitted 1, metric tons of lead between and and found that the smelter was the principal source of particulate lead within a radius of a mile.

When lead was discovered in the soil of Smeltertown, the company removed the top foot and a half of soil and replaced it with fresh soil. When lead poisoning was suspected in the children living in Smeltertown, the company bought the land in Smeltertown and removed the residents.