Why was Asarco demolished?
Asarco Smokestacks Are Demolished as Part of Effort to Clean Up and Redevelop Industrial Site.
When was Asarco demolished?
Asarco’s smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, was suspended in 1999 and then demolished on April 13, 2013. Before closing, the plant produced 1,000,000,000 pounds (450,000,000 kg) of anodes each year.
When was Asarco built in El Paso?
ASARCO (American Smelting and Refining Company) had a smelter in El Paso that was founded in the 1880s by Robert Towne and that became part of ASARCO in 1889.
What did Tacoma Asarco smelter do with its slag material?
Asarco poured hot slag into Com- mencement Bay to cool and harden, creating an artificial shoreline. Approximately two-thirds of the plant area at the smelter facility and the entire yacht club peninsula are slag. Air carried, contaminants from the Tacoma Smelter stack and process areas to soils and Commencement Bay.
Where was the Asarco smelter?
For almost 100 years, the Asarco Company operated a copper smelter in Tacoma. Air pollution from the smelter settled on the surface soil of more than 1,000 square miles of the Puget Sound basin.
When did the Asarco smelter close?
The ASARCO smokestack — once the world’s largest — is demolished at the company’s old copper smelter in Ruston, north of Tacoma, on January 17, 1993.
Why did ASARCO close in Ruston Florida?
ASARCO operated the smelter at the Ruston site until its closure in 1985 due to weak copper markets and a need for pollution control. It had been one of Pierce County’s largest employers. The smokestack dated to 1917.
What happened to ASARCO smelting?
After a 100 year history of smelting and refining in El Paso, Texas, Asarco entered into a bankruptcy settlement of its environmental liabilities. The clean-up of the former operations in El Paso is being led by the Texas Custodial Trust (Roberto Puga, Trustee).
What is the history of the ASARCO plant?
The ASARCO plant site had nearly 100 years of history, beginning as the Ryan Smelter, a lead-refining company built by investor Dennis Ryan in 1888. Two years later it became the Tacoma Smelting and Refining Company, under the ownership of William Rust (1850-1928) who began modernizing and expanding the facility.
What does ASARCO stand for?
Rust sold the plant for $5.5 million in 1905 to the American Smelter and Refining Company (ASARCO), which converted the plant for copper smelting and refining in 1912. In the 1920s the Port of Tacoma granted a 30-year lease of harbor land to the American Smelters Securities Company to allow for an extensive plant expansion.