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The Tooele Copper and Lead Smelter (1975)

Compton, Allan (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 29-46

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40968826

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Smelting Copper Mines and Mining Slag Industrial archaeology Lead and Lead Industry Buildings, Industrial 20th century Tooele, Utah U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record

Tooele was the second copper and first lead smelter constructed after an anti-pollution court decision. Its design included reduced manual labor through mechanized materials-handling and improved filtration to reduce pollution through horizontal flumes, Cottrell electrostatic precipitators, and a bag house. Last custom smelter in the Mountain West, Tooele represents the beginning and end of an era in smelting history.

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