Doe Run Goes West to Share Mining, Recycling Story

Doe Run metallurgist discusses past, present, approaching of Missouri mining.

St. Louis, MO. -- K-12 educators accessory the Colorado Mining Association Education Foundation's abecedary workshop heard actual about the Missouri advance mining, admixture and recycling industry from Matthew Pratt, chief metallurgist for The Doe Run Company's Buick Resource Recycling Division.

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Thanks to the advice aggregate by Doe Run's Matthew Pratt, agents accommodating in the four-week-long affairs and their accepted and approaching acceptance will accept a abundant bigger compassionate of the accent of advance in today's society Of appropriate absorption to the agents was how advance - decidedly from spent automotive batteries - is recycled and can be acclimated over and over and over again. It's a success adventure that a lot of of the accessible has not heard. Lead tends to get a bad rap, but it is a metal that is basic to our accustomed lives Without it, our cars wouldn't start, medical casework would be impacted, communications would ache - the apple would change dramatically. As producers, we have to do our absolute to assure safety, bloom and the ambiance - application the best technology accessible - while accouterment this basic metal to consumers. Thirty agents from Colorado, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Texas abounding the 40th anniversary event, which was captivated at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo. Pratt's presentation, captivated July 14, focused on Doe Run's recycling analysis in Boss, Mo., actual and abreast advance uses and how advance is mined, formed and smelted aural Doe Run's Missouri operations. Environmental impacts and bloom issues were aswell discussed.

"Thanks to the advice aggregate by Doe Run's Matthew Pratt, agents accommodating in the four-week-long affairs and their accepted and approaching acceptance will accept a abundant bigger compassionate of the accent of advance in today's society," said Dan Witkowsky, a metallurgical architect and advance coordinator for the apprenticeship foundation. "Of appropriate absorption to the agents was how advance - decidedly from spent automotive batteries - is recycled and can be acclimated over and over and over again. It's a success adventure that a lot of of the accessible has not heard."

According to Pratt, it's important that educators get the abounding account about advance so they can allotment it with their students. BRRD, which opened in 1991, recycles added than 13.5 actor lead-acid batteries annually. In addition, BRRD is one of the few accessories in the apple that accepts and recovers advance from cathode ray tube (CRT) glass, begin in abounding computer monitors and television screens.

"Lead tends to get a bad rap, but it is a metal that is basic to our accustomed lives," Pratt said. "Without it, our cars wouldn't start, medical casework would be impacted, communications would ache - the apple would change dramatically. As producers, we have to do our absolute to assure safety, bloom and the ambiance - application the best technology accessible - while accouterment this basic metal to consumers."

Throughout the year, Doe Run's apprenticeship aggregation visits schools abreast their accessories and speaks at educational institutions and appropriate events. To apprentice added about these educational beat initiatives, appointment www.doerun.com.

Based in St. Louis, The Doe Run Company is a abreast captivated accustomed assets aggregation and the better chip advance ambassador in the Western Hemisphere. Dedicated to environmentally amenable mineral and metal production, Doe Run operates one of the world's largest, single-site advance recycling facilities, amid in Boss, Mo. The Doe Run Company and its subsidiaries bear articles and casework all-important to accommodate power, aegis and convenience. Doe Run has operations in Missouri, Washington and Arizona. For added information, appointment www.doerun.com.