If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the ...

Earlier, through routine surveillance, the police caught a worker in the act of illegally dumping aluminum slag behind a smelting furnace. The worker was melting aluminum under contract for the ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Platinum producer Lonmin said Wednesday that a recent matte run-out incident at its Number One furnace will impact its ability to fully refine built-up metal-in-process ...