El Paso PlantTelephone: 915-541-1800 Fax: 915-541-1866 Address: P.O. Box 1111, El Paso, TX 79999 Location: The Plant is located in El Paso, Texas. Operations: The El Paso Plant is a copper smelter that was placed on a
care and maintenance status in February 1999. The plant employed a continuous top feed
process that fed copper concentrates, oxygen and natural gas into cyclone reactors
resulting in a copper matte that was subsequently treated in converter and anode furnaces.
The plant also has two sulfuric acid plants. In 1998, the El Paso plant produced 120,320
tons of copper anodes and 347,674 tons of sulfuric acid. Size: 585 acres, with the plant occupying 123 acres Plant facilities: Unloading and sampling facility, flash dryer, two
Con-Top cyclones, slag furnace; three Pierce Smith converters; two anode casting furnaces;
two acid plants and support facilities. Products: copper anodes, sulfuric acid Employees: 5 (3 Salary, 2 Hourly) Management: Lairy Johnson, Environmental and Site Manager History: 1887 - El Paso lead smelter founded by Robert S. Towne 1899 - Smelter becomes part of American Smelting and Refining Company 1911 - Copper smelter added at a cost of $300,000 1928 - Crushing plant installed 1948 - Zinc plant installed at a cost of $5 million 1972 - Acid plant installed at a cost of $6.7 million 1978 - Second acid plant installed for $15.5 million - Ore unloading and handling facility installed for $24 million 1979 - Sinter plant installed at a cost of $18.5 million 1982 - Zinc plant shut down 1985 - Lead plant operations suspended 1993 - Installation of continuous top-feed oxygen process technology (CONTOP). This greatly increased production and reduced sulfur emissions. 1994 - Stainless steel reactors were installed 1996 - Upgraded #1 and #2 acid plant capacities 1998 - Redesigned reactor feed system and increased plant capacity 1999 - Plant placed on care and maintenance status |
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