Unlike Ansteel, many Chinese mills don't have slag recycling plants, which global firm Harsco Metals & Minerals says is boosting its business processing and recycling slag.
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Giant slag heaps and chimneys remain, with signs proclaiming regeneration initiatives.
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Bare slag heaps rise above the trees, dwarfing the towns beside them.
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The company generates thermal power and sells slag, ash and petroleum products.
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During Potter's testimony, she wrote, "Ungrateful slag," on a Post-it note.
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So many riffs — SLAG and LAG, MANE and TEASES, RUN and LAM.
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That's not to say that it was wrong for Obama to slag Trump.
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Toxic emissions are captured and little is wasted, with furnace slag recycled into bricks.
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In response, the steelmaker pledged to build a 2 billion yuan slag treatment plant.
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Tronox said it intends to acquire Cristal's titanium slag production facility in Jizan, southern Saudi Arabia.
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But as the outage dragged on, the slag in the blast furnace solidified, rendering it inoperable.
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It&aposs been a long slag and we haven&apost had a lot of help at times.
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Will you make it to the summit— The flying slag, the potholes Red as an open wound?
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Mr. Morrison began by shoveling slag out of the furnaces, working his way up to crane driver.
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A visit to the volcano during an eruption was unforgettable: Heat, flying slag and a fortunate escape.
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But mining continues apace, and at least 14 people were killed when a slag heap collapsed last month.
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Large, unionized construction companies are shifting away from coal slag-based abrasives in favor of alternatives, Cain said.
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"This dumped slag has damaged farmland and added pollution to the water and air," the USTB study said.
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William Buchina: In and Around the Water continues at Slag Contemporary (81 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) through April 3.
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The woman called me a "fat slag" after bumping into my bum, and quickly hurried out with her partner.
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These are the heaps of rock removed from the mines, tons of slag excavated with the coal and piled up.
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The syngas rises through the pool, heavy metals sink to the bottom and other contaminants form a slag on top.
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Oil, sludge, paint chips and slag can get washed out to sea with the tide, environmental and rights campaigners say.
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But the FBI director also doesn't normally slag people with negative commentary in press conferences nominally dedicated to announcing their exoneration.
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The waste created from copper smelting, known as slag, contaminated the water of this ancient river and leached into the soil.
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Gas-fired power plants do not require expensive emission control systems to capture fly ash and dispose of ash and slag.
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It was so drearily conventional when compared to the giant of slag and soot that rose from the third game's landscape.
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Coal slag is a waste product formed when the remains of coal burned in utility plants are doused with cold water.
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There is a lack of financial incentive, however, for companies to recycle slag, particularly in less developed areas in China, said Zhang.
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SLAG, the crystalline chunks and slabs left over from metal smelting, is what makes a lot of art glass creations so extraordinary.
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Smelters had built up stocks of smelting slag as a replacement feed but "this stock has been greatly reduced," the ITA notes.
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Ahead of each eruption of slag, there was a deep — I mean seismically, rock-rattle deep — rumble of a cough. Wump-wump.
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Smelters had built up stocks of smelting slag as a replacement feed but "this stock has been greatly reduced", the ITA notes.
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Smelters had built up stocks of smelting slag as a replacement feed but "this stock has been greatly reduced", the ITA notes.
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The tank collects coal slag, a glass-like waste product formed after the remains of burned coal are mixed with cold water.
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Say, though, you pay £80 upfront to see the Rolling Stones and they're shit and don't pay "Satisfaction", you're gonna slag them off.
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One of these cases features two newspaper articles that discuss the Niagara Falls hot spots and slag pile that was moved to Michigan.
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The security guard was found dead in his home in Charleroi, a post-industrial region known for its derelict factories and slag heaps.
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The mines and soil dump sites are hazardous and deaths among the workers who pick through the slag piles for jade are common.
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Oil and gas combust more or less completely while coal produces large volumes of ash and slag, which require expensive handling and disposal.
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The two workers who died at the plant were covered in slag, which can reach temperatures far above 1,000 degrees, the authorities said.
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Trace amounts of beryllium are also found naturally in coal and copper slag used in abrasive blasting operations at shipyards and in construction.
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The material also can be found in coal slag, a component of some of the abrasive powders used in construction and shipyard work.
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Citing figures from the General Administration of Customs, the People's Daily said this year's intercepted shipments included 64,700 tonnes of waste slag from mines.
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When I received her note, I went to her house and ripped the letter up in front of her and called her a slag!
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The slag, which contains such byproducts as arsenic, mercury and thallium, was likely absorbed by plants and then subsequently eaten by humans and livestock.
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"The 'rainstick effect' was all of those little bits of slag, from thousands of holes, making really the most beautiful, ethereal noise," he said.
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Another residue called slag, composed of the remnants of glass, porcelain, gravel and other material can be used to cover landfills and build roads.
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Rio now expects 2019 titanium dioxide slag production to be at the bottom end of its guidance of between 1.2 and 1.4 million tonnes.
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When the gas is cooled, any hazardous elements in the waste end up sealed in a glassy slag that is safe to put into landfill.
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The competing shapes dwarf the small person at the edge of a pool of blue in the center of this painting at the Slag Gallery.
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But repairs to a blast furnace, damaged when power was lost and slag solidified, could result in the company losing "three to five million euros".
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If she is a slag, then it's only because she is tashing on with an ease that most of us could only ever dream of.
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Last month, the environment ministry accused mid-sized steelmaker Gaoyi Iron and Steel Co of illegally dumping large amounts of steel slag over a decade.
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Then they'd usually slag me off for it two weeks later in order to sell more copies, but that was just the pact we made.
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Follow this line to keep the song going, and destroy these targets before they either disappear or turn you into a smoldering heap of slag.
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The blight is more than vertical, for millions of tons of slag waste have been bulldozed down into the surrounding countryside for more than 40 years.
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In a series of studies, it found airborne beryllium concentrations of more than 40 times the new permissible exposure limit during coal slag abrasive blasting operations.
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"The tarmac – the asphalt on the roads – we use slag from the iron furnaces from steel manufacturers, stuff that may go into a landfill," he added.
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Not only does it keep the multiple cores on the Xeon chip from turning your machine into space gray slag, but it does so nearly silently.
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Images taken the next day don't show a molten pile of slag, and in fact the vehicle doesn't look any worse for wear on the outside.
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Some big shipbuilders supported the rule's extension to their industry, and said they were moving away from coal slag toward other abrasives like glass and garnet.
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The group's listed address in Camp Hill, Pa., is also the headquarters of the country's largest vendor of coal slag, Harsco Corporation, a publicly traded company.
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As a 6-year-old, I would rake up the slag and bring buckets of water from my house so these little patches of grass could grow.
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Four of the finalists plan to produce sturdy building materials such as cinder blocks made from the slag left over from steel production, cured with carbon dioxide.
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Today, Harper said, most recycling revolves around using heat to melt the batteries down to slag, followed by chemical separation techniques that recover specific metals like cobalt.
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Hénart doesn't exist, but, with its surrounding slag heaps, it suggests Hénin-Beaumont, a former mining town where the National Front has been in power since 2014.
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The OSHA proposal released on Friday would require shipyards and construction companies that use coal slag to meet the same new maximum exposure limit as other industries.
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Cementir Italia said in a statement that it had acted correctly and had bought ash and slag waste for its Taranto cement factory in accordance with regulations.
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The world's top crude steel producer, which last year made a record 831.7 million tonnes of the material, churns out over 100 million tonnes of steel slag annually.
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Instead, he said, he sought Byrne's help to lift the "frivolous" requirements for the shipyard and construction industries because they would disincentivize those companies from buying coal slag.
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China's forced environmental cutbacks on zinc slag, or waste from the zinc smelting process, and falling refined prices in the second quarter, prompted many smelters to cut production.
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The world's top crude steel producer, which last year made a record 29 million tonnes of the material, churns out over 22 million tonnes of steel slag annually.
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At the time, some big shipbuilders supported the new beryllium rule, and said they were moving away from coal slag toward other abrasives such as glass and garnet.
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When the mills were still operating, iron ore was melted and poured into great big ladles, at which point the less desirable slag would form at the bottom.
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When the mills were still operating, iron ore was melted and poured into great big ladles, at which point the less desirable slag would form at the bottom.
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They both involve heating, rather than burning, waste until it breaks down into a flammable mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, called syngas, and residual char, ash or slag.
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When Tracy Brabin MP stood at the despatch box in the House of Commons to raise a point of order, she probably didn't expect to be called a "slag".
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The gap between high-grade and low-grade pricing has been a defining feature of the iron ore market this year but one that simultaneously reduces vanadium slag production.
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Lighting is a mix of new LED fixtures and antiques, including the slag glass pendant in the foyer and crystal sconces in one of two first-floor sitting rooms.
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But during the rule-making process, OSHA officials expanded it to cover the maritime and construction industries because of concerns related to the use of coal slag in sandblasting.
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The rule explicitly precluded workers exposed to extremely low levels of airborne beryllium, such as those performing abrasive blasting work with coal slag in the construction and shipyards industries.
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It's evident in the way they stare glumly at their desks during hearings; the way they flee reporters seeking comment; the way they slag the White House off the record.
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It is largely produced through the processing of magnetite iron ore, with around 73 percent of output coming in the form of a slag generated in the steel production process.
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It's tempting to slag them off as crescendo loving pap merchants but trickier still to drop the ever-present cloak of social media era cool and feel something for once.
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It's tempting to slag on our own world and cast an eye backward, but the insistence by its participants on creating the legend of Woodstock seems a little suspect too.
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Mr. Lewis remembers the devastation of delayed-action explosive devices left by the Germans and the "slag heap" from the eruption of Vesuvius, just southeast of Naples, in March 1944.
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I am really sorry to slag another media person, but this reporter dude is treating Thiel rather kindly, not challenging him at all or getting a really good debate going.
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That compares to slag utilisation rates of around 98 percent in Japan and 87 percent in Europe, the University of Science and Technology Beijing said in a study published in June.
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Suu Kyi's NLD won a landslide victory in a historic election in November 20.8946, the same month that a massive slag heap collapsed in Hpakant and killed more than 100 people.
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YELLOW slag heaps loom over the corrugated metal shacks of the men who once toiled for gold in the deep shafts that honeycomb this part of South Africa's Free State province.
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Suu Kyi's NLD won a landslide victory in a historic election in November 2015, the same month that a massive slag heap collapsed in Hpakant and killed more than 100 people.
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That compares to slag utilization rates of around 98 percent in Japan and 87 percent in Europe, the University of Science and Technology Beijing said in a study published in June.
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Mullen still held, in Collins's recollection, "horrendous views" about immigrants, and he constantly used offensive language: "slag," for a promiscuous woman; "nonce," for a pedophile; and "retard," for a disabled person.
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The Abrasive Blasting Manufacturers Alliance, an industry group formed by companies that sell coal slag, including the Harsco Corporation, had argued there was no evidence linking its use to beryllium disease.
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That tendency carries over in this book: his story "The People of Sand and Slag" is about a trio of genetically modified humans guarding a a mining corporation in the distant future.
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So, the songs are good, but the production… I don't mean to slag Ed off again because he also has issues with the production, but I feel it's slightly murky and weird.
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Twenty-nine percent of 16-18-year-old girls had experienced unwanted sexual touching in schools, and 71 percent of the same age groups heard the words "slut" or "slag" used regularly.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An explosion at slag tanks at ArcelorMitall's steel plant in Lazaro Cardenas in western Mexico on Tuesday caused no injuries, the world's biggest steel-making said in a statement.
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"There was a thermal reaction in our slag pools, which produced a roar that was perceived by the city, without causing harm to people," the company's Mexican unit said in a tweet.
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Wardell Davis said he wishes his employer had told him about the health risks posed by coal slag and given him a chance to get his blood tested for beryllium 10 years ago.
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Chansky's muted tone causes the story to slag, but it is appropriate to his view of Scott's achievement in joining the team — as something significant, but not quite in the Jackie Robinson category.
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Harville said beryllium exposure isn't limited to workers: it leaves the worksite in clouds of blasting dust and the gritty coal slag that sticks to workers' clothes and skin, which risks exposing others.
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In the next little bit I want to talk a little bit about other competitors and things like that, because people sort of slag you a lot for borrowing some ideas from others.
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I received about a month of death and rape threats, was called a fat ugly Jew, called a whore and a slag, and told that someone's going to come and slit my throat.
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"Many roads and parking lots in Niagara Falls have radioactive slag, waste from the Manhattan Project, mixed into the road beds and under the backfill of the parking lots," Linder told Hyperallergic over email.
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He complains that a new NTPC coal mine, whose giant slag heap is just visible against the night sky, is the result of illegal land grabs, which have led to the deaths of protesters.
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Just to compound this evolving supply challenge, Beijing has also banned the import of four types of vanadium slag, cutting off around 4,500-5,20 tonnes of annual supply from Russia, according to SP Angel.
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But that stereotype-laden summary fails to communicate how Sex Education brilliantly subverts the assumptions made through labels like jock, mean girl, dunce, weirdo, therapist, popular, loser, gay, lesbian, slut (or slag), and virgin.
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Officials with the Big Bend plant, which is operated by Tampa Electric, said the episode occurred while workers were conducting "routine maintenance" on a slag tank at the bottom of Unit 2's boiler.
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But in 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted a study to survey the occupational exposure to beryllium in abrasive blasting using coal slag.
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Last November, a man-made mountain of earth excavated from mines gave way, smashing into a makeshift settlement at the foot of the slag heap and burying more than 100 mine workers as they slept.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A jade mine slag heap collapsed in northern Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 14 people, rescue officials said, the latest in a series of disasters to hit the largely unregulated gem industry.
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But now industrial debris like slag is increasingly coming under the spotlight as well, potentially pressing steelmakers to tackle the pilings problems head on at a time when they are grappling with weaker profit-margins.
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Separately, China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment said in a statement dated July 1 that inspectors in another of China's rare earth hubs, Baotou in Inner Mongolia, had found that mining slag was being dumped illegally.
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ANSHAN, China/MANILA (Reuters) - China's self-styled war on pollution is extending to a new front: the solid waste that makes up thousands of slag heaps around the country, a byproduct of its record steel output.
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It helped, too, that Turner knew how to take the piss and slotted in Britishisms like "slag" and mentions of clothing brands like Topshop alongside all his chat about switching jumpers to sneak into a club.
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Glue. Stagehands shook the planks to gather the slag at the bottom, drilled new holes into them, and sprayed in glue to try to keep all the tiny pieces of metal stuck firmly in one place.
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The recently announced plan calls for the portion of Silver Bow that flows through Slag Canyon — whose walls are made of mine waste — to be rerouted into a new channel away from the waste's toxic soils.
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The scene is "well-executed, from the panic as the slag heap starts to subside to the moment of devastation as the huge slip comes crashing into a classroom full of children," reporter Kathryn Williams wrote.
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The 16 banned products include steel smelting slag that contains more than 25 percent of the metal manganese and ethylene polymer waste, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) said in a document published on its website.
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It would encourage firms to "standardize, make green and scale up" the complete recycling of products, including materials used in construction such as cement, bricks, and fire retardants, as well as mine slag and tailings, and porcelain.
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Knezevic said significant investment was already underway for the rehabilitation of two large environmental black spots in Pljevlja, one of which relates to the reclamation of the ash and slag landfill created by operation of the power plant.
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Last year, Shagang, China's largest privately-owned steel producer, was found to have dumped millions of tonnes of untreated waste, including slag from steel production, in landfills near the banks of the Yangtze river, contaminating nearby soil and water.
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The slag dumped by Shagang and another steel firm in the city of Zhangjiagang in Jiangsu province was in excess of 2.3 million tonnes, it said, adding that it would conduct further investigations into potential lapses by local authorities.
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Another way to go green is to reduce the amount of clinker in cement by using waste substitutes such as fly ash from coal plants or slag from steel blast furnaces, but these are becoming scarcer and more expensive.
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Now all that remains of the industry in the basin is a collection of mining pits, slag heaps and workers' estates so archaic that Unesco, in 2012, added the region to its World Heritage List of unique global treasures.
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Barely has Ms. Melville begun to chart a societal awakening on the part of Effie — that also functions as Mr. Owen's own call to arms — before she is labeling herself a "stupid slag," just one of several rather colorful self-assessments.
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Last year, Shagang, China's largest privately-owned steel producer, was found to have dumped millions of tonnes of untreated industrial waste, including slag from steel production, in landfills near the banks of the Yangtze river, contaminating nearby soil and water.
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This isn't to slag TJ or DMChristop, who obviously had their tongues firmly in cheek when they sent these questions this way, it's more to say: yes, Twitter is exasperating, and no, it's not just your experience with it, it's everybody's.
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Harsco handles slag for state-owned mills with total steel production capacity of nearly 40 million tonnes, including a new contract for an 8.5-million tonne mill, Zhang said, adding that the firm was also getting enquiries from private steelmakers.
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Last year, China's customs authorities vowed to "unflinchingly crack down" on waste smuggling, and 421 suspects were arrested over the course of the year, including 127 caught in December, accused of bringing in 323,000 tonnes of plastics and mine slag.
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In his current exhibition, In and Around the Water at Slag Contemporary in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the artist has put aside the multi-paneled grid entirely to present a thematically cohesive set of canvases filled to overflowing with large, roiling crowds.
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Over the past several decades, as market forces and dwindling supplies have pushed coal companies into bankruptcy, they've abandoned towns, leaving behind the ravages of slag heaps and thousands of miles of streams and rivers polluted by acid mine drainage.
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In Méricourt, a town a few miles from Lens that is overshadowed by a volcanic-looking slag heap, the Communist mayor is holding together an alliance of leftists who are battling a rising challenge from National Front politicians like these.
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A lot of people slag off her shadow boxing because she is so often shown slapping her own face with her shoulders, tilting her head, and flicking her elbows out but honestly that seems disingenuous as that isn't how she fights at all.
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By June, Yunnan Luoping Zinc & Electric, a major metals producer in the province, had still not disposed of nearly 100,000 tonnes of hazardous slag identified during last year's inspections, and another 100,000 tonnes of waste had accumulated at another site, the ministry added.
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Major steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group (Ansteel) has invested around 1 billion yuan on eight slag processing lines with a total capacity of 11 million tonnes, Zhang Hewu, general manager at company unit Ansteel Green Resources Technology Co Ltd, told Reuters.
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"For 280 years I've been yelling my head off about the little realized fact that eggheads, socialists, Communists, professors and so-called liberals do not understand how goods are produced," wrote one, the owner of the Standard Slag Company in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Her six-track "For Sweden" EP, named after the titular Swedish producer and label boss Peder Mannerfelt who released the EP digitally on his eponymous label PederMannerfeltProduktion, is one part industrial slag, one part dystopian survival soundscape, and one part 6:00 a.m.
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This month it notified the World Trade Organization it would ban the import of four classes and 24 kinds of "solid wastes" by the end of this year, including a range of textiles, plastics and complex slag and dross from the iron and steel industry.
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Beijing in November told the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it will block all imports of 24 types of foreign trash, including plastics waste from living sources, vanadium slag and unsorted waste paper, in an effort to combat pollution and deal with domestic waste problems.
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Officials with Shagang did not respond to requests for comment, but in a statement to the official China Daily newspaper, the firm promised to invest 2.14 billion yuan to rectify its emissions control failures, and would also cut slag by half by the year-end.
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The former president might have been trying to refer to Republican obstructionism, but it came across as an unfortunate slag against the sitting president, all the more damaging since Hillary Clinton is basing her campaign on a promise to preserve and extend Obama's legacy.
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Her behaviour has earned her the label of "slag" – although, glaringly, this label has never been applied to Adam, who has bed-jumped a similar number of times, in addition to literally gaslighting someone and barely getting a slap on the wrist for it.
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China has also intensified its 'name and shame' tactics, saying in June that the country's No. 3 steelmaker, Jiangsu Shagang Group, had dumped millions of tonnes of untreated waste, including slag, in landfills near the banks of the Yangtze River, contaminating nearby soil and water.
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Shortly after President Trump's inauguration, the agency said it might peel away some restrictions, and OSHA's proposed new rule follows a lobbying campaign by sellers of a waste product known as coal slag, an abrasive used for sandblasting in shipyards and at construction sites.
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One of the biggest cases involved the smuggling of 313,500 tonnes of steel slag by an unnamed Shanghai company, as well as a 200,000-tonne shipment of plastic and other solid waste intercepted by customs inspectors in Shantou, near China's recycling town of Guiyu.
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Featuring works by: Chakaia Booker (Courtesy Marlborough Gallery), Amanda Browder, Maud Bryt, Ali Della Bitta, Bruce Dorfman (Courtesy June Kelly Gallery), Bruce Dow, Max Estenger, Ben Godward (Courtesy Slag Gallery), Charles Goldman, Jenny Hankwitz, Norman Jabaut, Bryn Jayes, Hildur Asgeirdottir Jonsson (Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery), Steve Keister (Mitchell Algus Gallery), Jill Levine (Courtesy Hionas Gallery), Robert Moskowitz (Courtesy Kerry Schuss), Frank Owen (Courtesy Nancy Hoffman Gallery), Robert Raphael, Dorothea Rockburne, Naomi Safran-Hon (Courtesy Slag Gallery), Richard Serra (Courtesy Richard Serra and Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Weyl), Donald Traver, Susan Wanklyn, Daniel Wiener (Courtesy Lesley Heller Workspace), and Letha Wilson (Courtesy Higher Pictures).
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Drastic changes to the landscape have left central Appalachian regions in the study's focus area 40 percent flatter after the bulldozers moved on, reducing elevations at the top while raising them at ground level by up to 10 feet because of the layers of accumulated slag.
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Officials with Shagang did not respond to requests for comment, but in a statement to the official China Daily newspaper, the firm promised to invest 2.14 billion yuan to rectify its emissions control failures, and would also cut slag by half by the end of the year.
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FREETOWN, August 6 (Reuters) - At the foot of a slag heap some 40 meters high, Adi Kalie Bangura showed the black welts that dot his arms and legs that he says are the result of drinking and bathing in water contaminated by Sierra Leone's largest diamond mine.
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We can slag on hair metal as portrayed in Decline II as the easy target it is and laugh at the posing, the swagger, the fringed scarves, and the unmitigated, glossy id of it all, but we can't deny its influence on music and culture in general.
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The wonder is how crazily, improbably alive it all is: this world of slag heaps and council houses, of unemployed miners and women stuck at home with their "weans," forced to supplement weekly benefit payments by prying open the electric meter and reclaiming the coins therein.
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Pliny the Elder reported in AD 78 that silver slag, the gunk left over from smelting silver, "has healing properties as an ingredient in plasters," and Cyrus the Great, king of Persia from 550 to 529 BC, stayed healthy by drinking only boiled water stored in silver flagons.
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Underscoring the government's ramped up drive against steel waste, it this year began imposing a blanket 25 yuan ($3.64) levy for every tonne of solid waste generated by industrial companies - that runs to 13 million yuan ($1.82 million) for a mill that produces 500,000 tonnes of slag a year.
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But, talking to Paullouis for like, three seconds, ignites something in her, so she buys him some drinks on Slag Mag's dime, asks some probing questions about whether or not the instructors sleep with their clients and then ends up grinding up on it, a billion drinks later.
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Before the new beryllium rule was finalized during the final weeks of the Obama administration, sellers of coal slag, many of them small companies, had voiced opposition to it, arguing, among other things, that OSHA's position on the material's dangers was misleading and that other abrasives posed their own risks.
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A 2010 YouGov survey found that one in three girls aged 16 to 18 had experienced unwanted sexual touching at school, and 71% of 16 to 18 year olds said they'd heard sexual name-calling such as "slut" or "slag" towards girls at school daily or a few times per week.
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If all you ever knew of the country derived from the clownish antics of its prime minister or cultural slag like the Canale 5 television show "Uomini e Donne" — featuring hypertrophied himbos and Sunkist-colored bimbos competing to snare them — it would be hard to believe that La Dolce Vita had ever existed.
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When Charlemagne took the tour, the hulking Mr Buissart led the group down concrete paths littered with scrap metal and defaced by graffiti, under the shadow of looming steelworks, through waist-high weeds and up an enormous slag heap to take in the view of old factories and piles of waste from industries that have mostly moved elsewhere.
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Just slag off whoever's currently crouched behind a Macbook trying to remember how a trackpad works so they can play approximately 32 seconds of six songs on YouTube before falling over and ripping the aux out of the laptop, bringing the laptop crashing to the floor where they writhe in agony amongst a puddle of spilt beer and discarded ash.
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The designer who almost single-handedly altered the shape of men's wear when, in the early years of the century, he introduced the skinny suit at Dior Homme and who afterward rescued Saint Laurent from the slag heap of market irrelevance with an adoring Gallic skew on Hollywood glamour and Los Angeles youth culture, introduced his first stand-alone collection for Celine on Sunday.
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And speaking of Nixon (again), the painter William Buchina, whose 2015 exhibition, Time to Speak a Human Language, mined the origins of our current plight in the conspiracies and thuggery surrounding the Nixon presidency, returned at the tail end of winter (and in the heat of the primaries) with the next stage in his excavations, a solo show called In and Around the Water at Slag Contemporary.
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I.O. Maritime and construction companies were not included in the original proposed rule in 2015, but the agency soon expanded the standard to include them because of data showing the potential dangers of coal slag, a gritty, glass-like material containing trace levels of beryllium that is used to sandblast ships, tanks and other structures before painting, according to Mr. Michaels, the former OSHA administrator who is now at the George Washington University School of Public Health.
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