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  2. Metal prices - Wikipedia

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    These prices are more an indication than an actual exchange price. Unlike the prices on an exchange, pricing providers tend to give a weekly or bi-weekly price. For each commodity they quote a range (low and high price) which reflect the buying and selling about 9-fold due to China's transition from light to heavy industry and its focus on ...

  3. Aluminum Can Prices: Are They Still Worth Collecting?

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    Tin scrap in the U.S. generally goes for $110 per ton on today's open market. The value of a single tin can would calculate as a fraction of a cent as a result. What are the latest scrap metal prices?

  4. Windsor Casting - Wikipedia

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    It recycled any kind of scrap metal with iron in it. In 1998, the foundry used the scrap metal from the demolition of neighbouring Windsor Engine #1 to cast 175,000 engine blocks. Although being considered an outdated facility, WCP was frequently awarded with many quality and environmental awards.

  5. Lead smelting - Wikipedia

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    Concentrated lead ore is fed into a sintering machine with iron, silica, limestone fluxes, coke, soda ash, pyrite, zinc, caustics or pollution control particulates. Smelting uses suitable reducing substances that will combine with those oxidizing elements to free the metal. Reduction is the final, high-temperature step in smelting.

  6. Heavy melting steel - Wikipedia

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    HMS 1 is the term for heavier scrap which has a density of at least 0.7 tons per cubic meter, whereas HMS 2 would be lighter steel scrap Because both grades guarantee a minimum piece thickness – at least 1 ⁄ 4 inch (6.35 mm) for HMS 1, and 1 ⁄ 8 inch (3.175 mm) for HMS 2 – consignments have a high density.

  7. Scrap - Wikipedia

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    Cast ironCast iron bathtubs, machinery, pipe, and engine blocks Pressing steel – Domestic scrap metal up to approx. 6 mm (0.24 in) thick. Examples – "White goods" (fridges, washing machines, etc.), roofing iron, water heaters, water tanks, and sheet metal offcuts

  8. Pot metal - Wikipedia

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    Toy road roller cast from zinc. Pot metal (or monkey metal) is an alloy of low-melting point metals that manufacturers use to make fast, inexpensive castings. The term "pot metal" came about because of automobile factories' practice in the early 20th century of gathering up non-ferrous metal scraps from the manufacturing processes and melting them in one pot to form into cast products.

  9. Ontario Malleable Iron Company - Wikipedia

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    Ontario Malleable Iron Company (OMIC) was an iron foundry established in Oshawa, Ontario, by brothers John Cowan and William Cowan. The factory was in operation from 1872 until closure in 1977. The factory was in operation from 1872 until closure in 1977.