Abstract
Since 1969, Gulf Chemical and Metallurgical Company, a Division of Associated Metals and Minerals Corporation, has operated The Texas City Tin Smelter. It has transformed a complex roasting and reverberatory furnace smelting flowsheet1 to a simple flow sheet utilizing a single high speed rotary furnace. The result of this change is a more efficient smelter capable of processing primary and secondary tin bearing feed stock.
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Thomas S. Mackey, “The Electrolytic Tin Refining Plant at Texas City, Texas,” Journal of Metals, 21 (6), (1969), pp. 32–43.
E.B. King and L.W. Pommier, “The Future of the Texas City Tin Smelter,” paper presented at International Tin Symposium, LaPaz, Bolivia, November, 1977.
P.A. Wright, “Extractive Metallurgy of Tin,” 2nd Edition, p. 186, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Oxford, U.K.
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E.B. King is currently President of Texas Tin Corporation, Texas City, Texas.
Donald N. Gibson is currently General Superintendent of Texas Tin Corporation, Texas City, Texas Smelter. He is also a member of TMS.
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King, E.B., Gibson, D.N. Tin Processing at the Texas City Smelter. JOM 37, 51–56 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03257683
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