Ancient Greece produced the earliest records ... “Lead released from smelting is the world’s first form of toxic or industrial pollution,” said Yale historian Joseph Manning, who was not ...

It ranks as one of the world’s largest untapped deposits ... and it’s possible that ancient copper smelting played a role in the area’s denuding—which in turn may have ended copper ...

Swansea was the world centre of copper smelting during the Industrial Revolution. Stephen Hughes, the Royal Commission's Head of Survey and Investigation, visits a major rescue excavation by ...