Asset Report
Monaca (Electrothermic) zinc smelter
Report summary
From 1926 to 1929 St. Joe Resources experimented with a new process for the production of zinc oxide, an electric current being passed through a mixture of coke and zinc sinter, zinc vapour being produced and then burned. The process was called the "electrothermic process." A plant was commissioned at Monaca in 1931 (Zinc Corporation of America – ZCA). In 1936 a process was added which condensed the zinc in molten zinc, so permitting the production of slab zinc, prior to this the output...
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- Location / Transport
- Conc. Receipt / Storage
- Roaster
- Acid Plant
- Sinter Plant
- Smelting Furnace
- Refining
- Casting Plant
- Residue Disposal
- Other
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