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More interested in bullion than beauty, the Spanish conquistadores who overran the Indians in the 16th century systematically plundered all the golden artifacts they could find, either converting them to ingots on the spot or shipping them to Spain to be melted down. As a result, pre-Columbian objets d...
Looking rather like a visitor to Dante's Inferno, Pope Paul VI last week stood before a blazing blast furnace and watched as sputtering molten iron ore was poured into ingots. The Pope was visiting the Italsider steel plant in the Southern Italian town of Taranto, where, true to...
A maker of metal products, from 3,300-lb. brass ingots to casings for Cha nel No. 5 perfume, Scovill drifted downhill for years. The firm lost $131,-000 on sales of $121 million in 1958.
Soon this is going to change. After years of dawdling, the Labor government finally announced its plan to help set up a domestic aluminum industry. British Aluminium Co. .(partly owned by Reynolds Metals of the U.S.) and the British mining concern, Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp., received the go-ahead to...
Six years from now the new plants, plus the increased smelting capacity of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., should be able to put 348,000 short tons of ingots on the market annually, but some analysts are predicting an aluminum glut before then. Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto, disagrees. "If...