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Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at El Moro, c. 1900. The first, and only until World War II, integrated iron and steel mill west of St. Louis was built in 1881 in Pueblo on the south side of the Arkansas River by the Colorado Coal and Iron Company (CC&L), an affiliate of the narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company (D&RG), controlled by General William Jackson Palmer and Dr. William ...
The coal seams—Pocahontas No. 3, No. 4, No. 6, and No. 11—are some of the best coal to be found in the world, and are rated at 15,000 Btu/lb (35 MJ/kg). [ 3 ] This operation, replete with beehive coke ovens, eventually spawned the Pocahontas Fuel Company , which operated mines in Virginia at Boissevain and Amonate , and in West Virginia at ...
Founded in 1898, it is one of the oldest businesses in Lethbridge. Initially established to serve the coal industry in southern Alberta, LETH IRON has evolved over the past century into a jobbing iron foundry, providing castings for clients in various sectors such as agriculture, automotive, construction, oil & gas, and rail across North ...
The Low Moor Ironworks was a wrought iron foundry established in 1791 in the village of Low Moor about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Bradford in Yorkshire, England. The works were built to exploit the high-quality iron ore and low-sulphur coal found in the area. Low Moor made wrought iron products from 1801 until 1957 for export around the world.
The Illawarra Coke Company (ICC) is located in Coalcliff and Corrimal, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia where historically coal was mined on the slopes of the Illawarra escarpment. After the mines were closed, coke making still occurs on these sites. The company was the only independent producer of metallurgical and foundry ...
Sir William turned the Clay Cross Company into a limited company in 1913, consisting of seven collieries (producing "CXC Gold Medal" coal), a brickworks, a gas plant, a limestone quarry, three blast furnaces and an iron foundry. The 280 beehive coke ovens for the iron works had been replaced in 1903 by 50 simplex by-product coke ovens. [3]
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David J. Gingery (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ ŋ ɡ ər i /; December 19, 1932 – May 3, 2004) was an American inventor, writer, and machinist, best known for his series of books on how to build machine tools. Gingery is most famous for his Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap series, which details how to build a reasonably complete machine shop at low ...