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Dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel in 1994
It's been just over 20 years since Bethlehem Steel last poured steel. ( Nov 1995 ). Here's slag being poured out of rail cars.
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We were there, last weekend..we walked the Hover-Mason trestle.
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Another cool vid..right where the Sands is located. |
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I'd like to do that to all of the fire ants in my yard... |
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I pretty sure I have posted before about my Bemidji Minn. trip with the folks back over 1/2 a century ago.....the iron trains, unloading 'dock' way in hell outta the lake, and the short gray cars full of iron ore.......
Carnegie knew how to get shit done...... |
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What is slag?
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A serious reply now..... Iron ore comes outta the ground looking like rust, mixed with rocks and whatever, sand/stones....but it is VERY heavy, much heavier than say COAL which is organic in nature......so rotted/compressed trees from mega times ago.....
So when the fire the furnaces up they melting the brown rust outta the 'ore'....and the rest is super hot stone/crap.....so it has to be hauled out of the plants and dumped....it's pretty much nothing but sand/related stone crap..... the iron is ours to make Corvettes with...... |
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The Bethlehem Steel story is an interesting one. There's a lot of parallels to the auto industry in what happened to them. Conventional wisdom blames the unions in both cases and while that is true, it's only part of the story.
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yikes
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Cheap imports ( foreign govt subsidized ) were part of the decline in both industries. |
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