Lando Lincoln: I'm sure that the company will have an exemplary record of environmental stewardship and will treat their workers very well.

I know the President and CEO and I can assure you that Mr. Burns is going to treat us all well.

World's largest mining company?

You're wrong.

Largest producer of thermal coal? Yes

Mining in general? No

Well. Who will fix the prices if they don't do it?
Get with the globalist program, serfs.

Good for you, ma'am.

/not obscure
//at least it better not be

dletter: "Let's go to serious and uptight version of Chelsea Handler for a report"

Ha ha! I thought the same thing when I saw the video - they look very similar.

Stay the hell away from my milkshake.

A business that can be destroyed almost instantaneously by a worldwide switch to nuclear and renewable energy.

Lost Thought 00: A business that can be destroyed almost instantaneously by a worldwide switch to nuclear and renewable energy.

fat chance.

Lost Thought 00: A business that can be destroyed almost instantaneously by a worldwide switch to nuclear and renewable energy.



You realize that copper is used in the transmission of electricity, correct?

/as if we're even close to converting to nukes and renewables.

Oh I have heard of both companies alright. Glencore are some of slimiest bastards I have ever come across in my professional life.

Pocket Ninja: Virtual control? Are holograms involved? Maybe some Smell-O-Vision?

Feel-Around.

Okay, am I the only one mystified as to why that truck would be pouring molten metal into a dirt pit? I'm not sure what that action would accomplish.

State_College_Arsonist: Okay, am I the only one mystified as to why that truck would be pouring molten metal into a dirt pit? I'm not sure what that action would accomplish.

Didn't watch the video I would hazard a guess that they are dumping slag. The unwanted stuff that usually floats to the top during refining into metal. Shoot... would be mainly silicon, carbonous material, and trace metals... I have forgotten a lot of my metallurgy, could be wrong on the makeup.

Well, we'll just have to go deeper!



/BWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHMMMM!!!

Saiga410: State_College_Arsonist: Okay, am I the only one mystified as to why that truck would be pouring molten metal into a dirt pit? I'm not sure what that action would accomplish.

Didn't watch the video I would hazard a guess that they are dumping slag. The unwanted stuff that usually floats to the top during refining into metal. Shoot... would be mainly silicon, carbonous material, and trace metals... I have forgotten a lot of my metallurgy, could be wrong on the makeup.

Let me tell you a little something about the chemical make up of slag alone.
(because there is no metallurgical content)
Unwashed slag is so full of chemicals that when you add water, it gives off SULPHURIC ACID.

PERIOD END.

SULFARKINBGPHURIC FARKINGACID.


But it's perfectly safe for our enviroment. trust them.

Really, I lived in a mill town all my life and studied chemistry and metalurgy and all the associated sciences, as well as environmental studies.
If you want safe byproducts from manufacturing concerns, you have to first be prepared to crucify alive the people that are doing shiat like this.
I mean take them out and scourge them with thorns, whip them, and bang farking nails through their limbs and hand tham on a tree and poke them and spit on them and play games for their possessions ate their feet.
And when you are done. YOU BETTER LET EVERYONE ELSE OUT THERE KNOW THAT if they try that shiat, THEY ARE NEXT.

we slacked on the method with the religious nut jobs and look what that got us.

Yeah, You want to be surrounded by fanaical industrialists?
I didn't think so.


I'll get the spikes.

Lost Thought 00: A business that can be destroyed almost instantaneously by a worldwide switch to nuclear and renewable energy.

Right because those industries don't need zinc, copper, iron ore, or thermo coal to heat steel furnaces. None what so ever.

Actually, it looks like BoA does not own the building, BentleyForbes does. They bought in it at the top of the boom and their main tenant was BoA. BoA, and others I would assume, have dropped much of their office space in the past few years. So now the building is worth about half of what it was purchased for in 2006. I just wonder who holds the mortgage...

Or perhaps to BentleyForbes, which bought the property for $436 million from Bank of America in 2006. The tower was appraised at $202 million in March (new window)

vudukungfu: Saiga410: State_College_Arsonist: Okay, am I the only one mystified as to why that truck would be pouring molten metal into a dirt pit? I'm not sure what that action would accomplish.

Didn't watch the video I would hazard a guess that they are dumping slag. The unwanted stuff that usually floats to the top during refining into metal. Shoot... would be mainly silicon, carbonous material, and trace metals... I have forgotten a lot of my metallurgy, could be wrong on the makeup.

Let me tell you a little something about the chemical make up of slag alone.
(because there is no metallurgical content)
Unwashed slag is so full of chemicals that when you add water, it gives off SULPHURIC ACID.

PERIOD END.

SULFARKINBGPHURIC FARKINGACID.


But it's perfectly safe for our enviroment. trust them.

Really, I lived in a mill town all my life and studied chemistry and metalurgy and all the associated sciences, as well as environmental studies.
If you want safe byproducts from manufacturing concerns, you have to first be prepared to crucify alive the people that are doing shiat like this.
I mean take them out and scourge them with thorns, whip them, and bang farking nails through their limbs and hand tham on a tree and poke them and spit on them and play games for their possessions ate their feet.
And when you are done. YOU BETTER LET EVERYONE ELSE OUT THERE KNOW THAT if they try that shiat, THEY ARE NEXT.

we slacked on the method with the religious nut jobs and look what that got us.

Yeah, You want to be surrounded by fanaical industrialists?
I didn't think so.


I'll get the spikes.

I miss staying home from school on sunny, windless days due to the sulphur in the air.

/Sudbury

Yeah, so that was the wrong thread...

vudukungfu: Saiga410: State_College_Arsonist: Okay, am I the only one mystified as to why that truck would be pouring molten metal into a dirt pit? I'm not sure what that action would accomplish.

Didn't watch the video I would hazard a guess that they are dumping slag. The unwanted stuff that usually floats to the top during refining into metal. Shoot... would be mainly silicon, carbonous material, and trace metals... I have forgotten a lot of my metallurgy, could be wrong on the makeup.

Let me tell you a little something about the chemical make up of slag alone.
(because there is no metallurgical content)
Unwashed slag is so full of chemicals that when you add water, it gives off SULPHURIC ACID.

PERIOD END.

SULFARKINBGPHURIC FARKINGACID.


But it's perfectly safe for our enviroment. trust them.

Really, I lived in a mill town all my life and studied chemistry and metalurgy and all the associated sciences, as well as environmental studies.
If you want safe byproducts from manufacturing concerns, you have to first be prepared to crucify alive the people that are doing shiat like this.
I mean take them out and scourge them with thorns, whip them, and bang farking nails through their limbs and hand tham on a tree and poke them and spit on them and play games for their possessions ate their feet.
And when you are done. YOU BETTER LET EVERYONE ELSE OUT THERE KNOW THAT if they try that shiat, THEY ARE NEXT.

we slacked on the method with the religious nut jobs and look what that got us.

Yeah, You want to be surrounded by fanaical industrialists?
I didn't think so.


I'll get the spikes.

So..... ummmm yaaa........so was I right that the vid shows slag dumping and I was completely off base on what constitutes slag?

wingnut396: Lost Thought 00: A business that can be destroyed almost instantaneously by a worldwide switch to nuclear and renewable energy.

Right because those industries don't need zinc, copper, iron ore, or thermo coal to heat steel furnaces. None what so ever.

Shhh, let him wallow in ignorance for a little while longer...it's cute!

Saiga410: vudukungfu: Saiga410: State_College_Arsonist: Okay, am I the only one mystified as to why that truck would be pouring molten metal into a dirt pit? I'm not sure what that action would accomplish.

Didn't watch the video I would hazard a guess that they are dumping slag. The unwanted stuff that usually floats to the top during refining into metal. Shoot... would be mainly silicon, carbonous material, and trace metals... I have forgotten a lot of my metallurgy, could be wrong on the makeup.

Let me tell you a little something about the chemical make up of slag alone.
(because there is no metallurgical content)
Unwashed slag is so full of chemicals that when you add water, it gives off SULPHURIC ACID.

PERIOD END.

SULFARKINBGPHURIC FARKINGACID.


But it's perfectly safe for our enviroment. trust them.

Really, I lived in a mill town all my life and studied chemistry and metalurgy and all the associated sciences, as well as environmental studies.
If you want safe byproducts from manufacturing concerns, you have to first be prepared to crucify alive the people that are doing shiat like this.
I mean take them out and scourge them with thorns, whip them, and bang farking nails through their limbs and hand tham on a tree and poke them and spit on them and play games for their possessions ate their feet.
And when you are done. YOU BETTER LET EVERYONE ELSE OUT THERE KNOW THAT if they try that shiat, THEY ARE NEXT.

we slacked on the method with the religious nut jobs and look what that got us.

Yeah, You want to be surrounded by fanaical industrialists?
I didn't think so.


I'll get the spikes.

So..... ummmm yaaa........so was I right that the vid shows slag dumping and I was completely off base on what constitutes slag?

What slag might look like:

Does this mean ammo is going to go up again?

Since when does "announced plans" mean "just completed"?

Saiga410: .

So..... ummmm yaaa........so was I right that the vid shows slag dumping and I was completely off base on what constitutes slag?

from what I can tell, you're correct, they look like they're dumping slag.

...and the prices go up....

Xstrata is probably already in the top 5 in copper worldwide, and #1 in coal, so it's not like this is a huge change for them. Glencore's influence is as much or more in commodities trading and market-making as the actual production of the commodities; that's where regulators are raising an eyebrow.

vudukungfu: Unwashed slag is so full of chemicals that when you add water, it gives off SULPHURIC ACID.

That is because the ore bodies of usually have a high amount of sulfides. Same principal as Acid Rock Drainage.

However, for slag, there are standad pracitces that are done to mitigate the environmental impact of this disposal. Things like lining, mixing with buffering compounds, recycling all can be done to ensure that the environmental permit requirements are met.

If you want safe byproducts from manufacturing concerns, you have to first be prepared to crucify alive the people that are doing shiat like this.

Your 'free lunch' is pretty much a myth. There are impacts with all mining processes. And what exactly is 'this' in which these people need to be crucified? How do you not know that this slag is inert; or that the disposal area is not lined or mixed with limestone to nuetralize any acid generation?

/knee jerk reactions like yours if oftentimes worse than what you are yelling about.

Sherman Potter: Does this mean ammo is going to go up again?

Not because of this merger. There are still larger copper players, even after this merger.

http://blog.covestor.com/2011/04/worlds-largest-copper-producers-fcx- b hp-scco

Saiga410: So..... ummmm yaaa........so was I right that the vid shows slag dumping and I was completely off base on what constitutes slag?

Not really. Most slag is molten silica, however, it can depend upon what type of process you have (what you used for fuel and flux) and the makeup of your orebody/refined material. For example, Iron ore bodies are generally oxide type ores so you don't get as many of the sulfide minerals that you would see in coal/hardrock mining applications. Hence sulfuric acid generation is not typically a conern.

In any case, permitting will take into account the type of slag and attempt to mitigate any impacts it will have.

What could possibly go wrong?

/The invisible hand will be giving us the finger once again