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• London Lead Company — The London Lead Company was an 18th and 19th century British lead mining company. It was incorporated by royal charter. Strictly, it was The Company for Smelting Down Lead with Pitcoal. OriginsThe company was chartered in 1692 to investors who… …   Wikipedia

• lead processing — Introduction       preparation of the ore for use in various products.       Lead (Pb) is one of the oldest metals known, being one of seven metals used in the ancient world (the others are gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and mercury). Its low… …   Universalium

• Zinc smelting — is the process of converting zinc concentrates (ores that contain zinc) into pure zinc. The most common zinc concentrate processed is zinc sulfide,Citation | title = Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors | publisher = U.S. Environmental… …   Wikipedia

• environmental works — ▪ civil engineering Introduction       infrastructure that provides cities and towns with water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control services. They include extensive networks of reservoirs, pipelines, treatment systems, pumping stations …   Universalium

• Mining in the Upper Harz — The headframe of the Emperor William Shaft in Clausthal is one of the oldest surviving winding towers in Germany …   Wikipedia

• Dudd Dudley — Dudd (Dud) Dudley (1600 ndash; 1684), was an English metallurgist, who fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War as a soldier, military engineer, and supplier of munitions. He was one of the first Englishmen to smelt iron ore with coke …   Wikipedia

• Dud Dudley — Contents 1 Background and early life 2 Ironmaster 2.1 The Great Mayday Flood …   Wikipedia

• River Clywedog — This article is about the river near Wrexham. For other rivers of the same name, see Clywedog. Coordinates: 53°1′10.985″N 2°52′56.905″W / 53.01971806°N 2.88247361°W …   Wikipedia

• Rookhope — is a former lead and fluorspar mining village in County Durham, in England. It first existed as a group of cattle farms in the 13th Century. It is situated in the Pennines to the north of Weardale. The village pub, the Rookhope Inn… …   Wikipedia

• Lorca — is a city in southeast Spain, in the autonomous community of Murcia and 36 miles SW of the city of Murcia. It has a population of 89,936 (year 2006), up from the 2001 census total of 77,477. Lorca is the municipality with the second largest… …   Wikipedia

• Clement Clerke — Sir Clement Clerke, 1st Baronet (died 1693) was an important (but financially unsuccessful) English entrepreneur, whose greatest achievement was the application of the reverberatory furnace (cupola) to smelting lead and copper, and to remelting… …   Wikipedia