FLORENCE – A riverside slag dump that at one time was piled high with waste from the John A. Roebling's Sons Co. has been cleaned up and transformed into a 37-acre park now open to the public.

Three iron "buttons" are stacked on top of each other as a reminder of the slag dump that was once behind Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pa. on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017.

Slag is the molten runoff created while producing steel in a traditional blast furnace. The material has been prized as a greener cement alternative for creating concrete, the Earth’s most ...

The slag car that MVRHA owns was from YS&T and was last used in 1979, the year its blast furnace was shut down for good. The slag car could dump a load of molten slag through the use of the ...

The drums range in depth from 20 to 80 feet. They are buried in a lakebed filled with stamp sand, a type of waste rock that, in some areas, has been ground into a “pudding of mud” on the bottom.

CHICAGO — A former slag dump on the Southeast Side was once slated to be the city's next landfill but instead ended up home to egrets wading in search of fish to spear, BMX bikers looking to ...

Plans to bring a slag dumping ground at Primbee back to life should be rejected by the city's planning panel. I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over ...

“The block of land bought by the board for erection of the new $130,000 building north of the present Bowie High School in South El Paso is the site of an old slag dump.

Can you find it anywhere else? Surprisingly, Leland Blue isn’t limited to Michigan. Most iron companies used to dump their waste in deeper bodies of water, but you can still find blue slag in ...

"Back" compensated for the damage to nature by 6.2 million rubles | AKM.RU ...