Posted on 10/27/2013 9:12:13 AM PDT by Nachum
Truthfully, there are several minerals that you just can’t mine cheap or easy, and make for dreadful pollution.
I remember seeing a picture from a South American mercury mine, in which once a month workers would have to sit in a wooden box lined with 100 Watt light bulbs, to sweat as much mercury out of their system as possible. They still died young, with few making it to their 50’s.
Watch, the Mob and Gangs will be running illegal smelting facilities....
The goes Laz’s slag removal job.
Next the EPA will restrict lead imports.
Who is John Galt?
My brother-in-law used to canvass service stations for discarded lead tire-weights.He hs buckets full of them.He could see the future!
But if we are going to have things like anti-pollution requirements then we need to raise the import tariffs for countries that do not or we throw our people out of work and destroy our own industries.
How about spent uranium? used in tank ammo. /s
Galena, IL used to be a big lead town, U. S. Grant’s hometown. Been there
Get it while you can!
Actually, I might feel more secure relying on china for ammo rather than the whims of the obviously anti 2nd ammendment crowd in dc.
Capitol Hill is easily the MOST polluted area in the US. It has done far more harm to America and her citizens than anything that any lead smelting operation could possibly do.
The White House is the second most polluted area in the US ...
Tyranny is far more deadly than lead ...
“Too hard to ban lead in bullets and shot pellets, so regulate the only lead smelter out of business.”
But what about all the lead they need for the batteries for all their “clown car” Toyota Piouses, and Honda Twits?”
Lead is also used in soldering electronic parts. Even though there has been a move towards “no lead solder” in the electronics industry, it does not work in certain applications, such as medical devices, military, avionics, wastewater treatment and underwater oil exploration.
Uh, from the article excerpt above:
Just this month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will ban lead ammunition for all hunting in California.
Hmmm. So lead smelted lead refined is bad, but galena, the rock ore that Pb is extracted from, is just fine in situ?
Well, Maybe one ought to check out the free lead and leachate lead associated with the rock in the ground before simply declaring lead smelting a “hazard” while the ground adjacent is , well, made of lead bearing rock....
So much for science and PC spin.
The price of silver has been down for quite a while...good enough for the Lone Ranger, good enough for me!
‘swhy lead was removed from gasoline.
You could look it up...
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