Silver By-Product Production at Smelters to Rise Steadily in 2024, Cumulative Increase Exceeds 7% YoY] According to SMM, the production of silver by-products at primary lead smelters is expected to ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of ...

Smelting silver for coins released lead that would attach to dust particles in the atmosphere, some of which eventually made its way to Greenland. "For every ounce of silver you might produce ...

The lead emissions followed the development of smelting technologies, which produced metals like silver, according to a recent study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

That’s 1,200 years older than the previous earliest recorded lead pollution, which was found in a peatbog in Serbia. In antiquity, lead was released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of smelting ore ...